Party & Programme > Programmes
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
SWP: Opposition springs back to life
23 May 2013
The fightback must be principled and programmatically armed, urges Peter Manson
Left unity appeal: Realise potential, avoid pitfalls
04 Apr 2013
The Left Unity appeal has gathered a promising level of support, but runs the risk of repeating past mistakes, argues Harley Filben
South African left: Attempt to go round already existing mass organisations
04 Apr 2013
Wasp might be able to sting the SACP/Cosatu bureaucracy. But, asks Peter Manson, can it become a mass party capable of leading a socialist revolution?
The left: Loach makes his bid for unity
28 Mar 2013
Can anything positive arise from the SWP crisis? Peter Manson believes it can if we stick to our principles
Comintern review: Not a school of strategy
21 Feb 2013
Mike Macnair reviews: John Riddell (ed), 'Toward the united front: proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922'. Brill, 2012, pp1310, 200 (paperback also available from Haymarket Books, £39.99)
Programme and Party: Broad bad, mass good
21 Feb 2013
Opportunists require mushy politics and meaningless phrases when they set out to deceive. Jack Conrad argues in favour of a mass working class party and the kind of principles and politics outlined in the Communist manifesto, the Erfurt programme and the programme of the Parti Ouvrier
SWP and programme: Transitional regression ends in a hunch
14 Feb 2013
Is the so-called transitional method the road to revolution? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of the Socialist Workers Party
SWP crisis: Programme and the programmeless
07 Feb 2013
Why do communists place such importance on their programmes and why does the SWP central committee expel oppositionists who advocate developing one? Jack Conrad begins a short series of articles
ACI Hardy & Cooper: Beyond ‘anti-capitalism’
24 Jan 2013
Harley Filben reviews: Luke Cooper and Simon Hardy, 'Beyond capitalism? The future of radical politics'. Zero Books, 2013, pp174, £11.99
SWP opposition: Seymour in Greece
24 Jan 2013
He may have been propelled to the vanguard of the SWP opposition - but it is not immediately clear what Richard Seymours politics actually are. Paul Demarty looks for clues
SUPPLEMENT: Origins of the crisis in the SWP - part two
17 Jan 2013
Third-period Blairism and the necessity of demystifying Bolshevism
General strike: Rebuild the movement
18 Oct 2012
The call for a general strike to bring down the government is out of place, writes Mike Macnair
Overcoming a false dichotomy
27 Sep 2012
Where does the general election leave the Netherlands? Piet Potlood looks at the contending forces and points to the weakness of the left
Nationalism from another angle
27 Sep 2012
Esen Uslu completes his review of the Turkish lefts attitude to the Kurdish question by considering two leftwing thinkers
Her life and her legacy
16 Aug 2012
Mike Macnair asks whether the modern new left use of Luxemburg is part of the problem rather than the solution