Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Sectarianism and secession
25 May 2017
Programmatically weak politics only helped reinforce the CPGB’s ultimate sectarianism after its re-entry into the Labour Party in the late 1930s, writes Lawrence Parker
A route out of paralysis
18 May 2017
Is Turkey ‘on the road to fascism’? Such talk is utterly counterproductive, argues Esen Uslu
With a whimper
18 May 2017
Labour’s proposals on union rights amount to mere tinkering, writes Mike Macnair
Up close and personal
18 May 2017
The CPGB’s mass entry work in the Labour Party in the late 1930s has been partially obscured by delusions associated with popular frontism, writes Lawrence Parker
Aim to be a party of extreme opposition
18 May 2017
That a Corbyn-led Labour Party would trail way behind in the polls was always eminently predictable. Nevertheless, says James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists, too many on the left are in a panic, are clutching at straws and are sadly deluding themselves about Labour’s manifesto
Unplanning delusions
11 May 2017
The collapse of the Soviet Union does not prove that planning is impossible, argues Mike Macnair
Final resolution
11 May 2017
Adopted by the May 7, 2017 CPGB aggregate meeting
What happens after June 8?
11 May 2017
Peter Manson reports on last weekend’s meeting of CPGB members
Class struggle or national war?
04 May 2017
Moshé Machover replies to Tony Greenstein
The proletariat and its ally
04 May 2017
This is the concluding section of Karl Kautsky’s The driving forces and the prospects of the Russian Revolution (1906)
‘All power to the soviets!’
04 May 2017
In the second article in the current series, Lars T Lih demonstrates that the Bolshevik strategy of a revolutionary alliance between the proletariat and peasantry was upheld by Karl Kautsky
No concessions
04 May 2017
The French left must overcome its panic and maintain its opposition to the dysfunctional capitalist establishment, argues Paul Demarty
Not back to normal
27 Apr 2017
The centre-right and the centre-left suffered defeat, but the markets are no longer in a panic. Yassamine Mather looks at the French ... and the Iranian presidential elections
Cohering the Labour left
27 Apr 2017
Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists reports on the first meeting of the Grassroots Momentum steering committee on April 22 in London
Trump in transition
27 Apr 2017
Jim Creegan discusses how the bourgeoisie disabuses presidents and high officials of any notion that they are free agents