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
A faction is not a party
03 May 2012
Did the Bolsheviks seek to create a 'party of a new type' in 1912? Lars T Lih looks at the historical record
Ditch sects and fronts
03 May 2012
Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports
Sectarian stumbling block
03 May 2012
Anne McShane reports on the future of the Irish ULA
Perspectives for the left
03 May 2012
Where does George Galloway's election victory leave us? What does the CPGB say about recent resignations from its ranks? Michael Copestake reports on last weekend's aggregate meeting of members
Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
ULA: opportunity to lead
26 Apr 2012
The United Left Alliance conference this weekend comes at an important juncture in Irish politics. Anne Mc Shane takes a look.
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Momentum builds behind France's third man
12 Apr 2012
Jean-Michel Edwin calls for critical support for Melenchon in this months presidential election
Presaging the 21st century
12 Apr 2012
Paul Mason, Why it is kicking off everywhere: the new global revolutions Verso 2012, pp244, £12.99,reviewed by Mark Kosman
Galloway shows what can be done
05 Apr 2012
How can the left make the most of the Bradford West result? Peter Manson joins the debate
1912 and 2012
05 Apr 2012
Paul Le Blanc argues that the Bolsheviks constituted themselves as a separate party at the Prague conference and advocates a 'united front' for today's disunited Marxist left
Both Pham Binh and Paul Le Blanc are wrong
05 Apr 2012
The left has never properly grasped the history and significance of Bolshevism, argues Mike Macnair
Breaking with the cold war consensus
05 Apr 2012
Has today's anti-Stalinist left sleepwalked into a Stalinoid conception of 'Bolshevism'? This is an edited and expanded version of the speech delivered by the CPGB's Ben Lewis to the March 31-April 1 Platypus convention in Chicago
Wanting to get Lenin wrong
29 Mar 2012
Pham Binh challenges those who insist on maintaining their fictional image of Lenin and the Bolsheviks - despite the overwhelming evidence
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism