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Hidden from history

22 Nov 2007

Lawrence Parker, The kick inside - revolutionary opposition in the CPGB 1960-1991 2007, £4.00 (+ £1.15 postage), pp75

One step back

03 Jul 2025

Marx provided many lessons of how to draft programmes. However, they were not only about building unity around concrete aims: they were also about drawing clear lines of demarcation, says Jack Conrad

Completely different foundations

26 Jun 2025

As with now, the economic significance and politics of the middle classes was being hotly debated among socialists back in the 1890s. Some claimed their growth as disproving Marxism. Others could only see proletarianisation. Ben Lewis has translated a highly pertinent passage from Karl Kautsky’s Anti-Bernstein (1899), which offers still valuable insights. Mike Macnair provides the introduction

Learning some elementary Russian

12 Jun 2025

Worthwhile unity can only be forged around a democratically agreed programme. But that necessarily involves minorities accepting majority votes. Demanding that majorities discard their programme and compromise on their principles is a non-starter, says Jack Conrad

Programme ’n’ chips

08 May 2025

Differences are inevitable. Unity can, however, be forged around a democratically agreed programme and the commitment to building a mass party. Jack Conrad reports … and considers organisational cultures, good and bad

Rediscovering our words

10 Apr 2025

Communist unity needs solid programmatic foundations if it is going to succeed. Towards that end, Jack Conrad says that we need to return to our common language to overcome common misunderstandings

Minimum demands are maximal

03 Apr 2025

Let us not understate our radicalism or drive ourselves into sterile propagandism. Mike Macnair reports on the latest meeting of Forging Communist Unity

Getting down to details

13 Mar 2025

Our first face-to-face meeting took place on March 8. The aim was to find out where we agreed and where we disagreed. Mike Macnair reports on Forging Communist Unity

Operating on a hunch

06 Mar 2025

The International Socialist tradition is nowadays characterised by an almost pathological fear of adopting a programme. Yet without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme there is every chance of falling into opportunist incoherence, argues Jack Conrad

Programmatic starting point

27 Feb 2025

Without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme, our party will have no chance of taking coherent form, guarding against opportunism or navigating the road to socialism, argues Jack Conrad

What sort of partyism?

09 Jan 2025

Archie Woodrow is quite good on identifying the left’s problems, less good when it comes to giving answers. Mike Macnair continues his series of articles on the ‘party discussion’

What sort of partyism?

05 Dec 2024

Since September a range of left groups have put forward ‘pro-party’ arguments. Mike Macnair explores the good and the bad

A hundred years is enough

19 Sep 2024

Three books, all published in 1924, laid the ideological groundwork for a Lenin cult, which is still responsible for the confessional sects and academic historians alike getting the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution so wrong. Lars T Lih shows that there was no Hegel moment, no April theses break, no conversion to Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution. Lenin and the Bolsheviks consistently upheld revolutionary social democracy

Primary task set

18 Jul 2024

Theory and programme are treated seriously, but there are leftist and anarchistic carryovers. Martin Greenfield reports on the Revolutionary Communist Organisation conference in Australia and the next steps that are needed in what will doubtless be a long journey

Breaking the grip of Zionism

06 Jun 2024

There is a way out of the hell into which the Palestinian masses have been consigned by Israeli settler‑colonialism. Jack Conrad presents the communist solution

Continuing a conversation

30 May 2024

‘Bourgeois democracy’ is democratic and also undemocratic. But the term correctly captures the class nature of a particular form of state, insists Steve Bloom

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