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
Immediate demands
18 Oct 2007
CPGB comrades in London have been engaged in an ongoing debate over the contents of our Draft programme in line with the decision taken last year to update and redraft it, reports Peter Manson
Leading workers by the nose
13 Sep 2007
Our immediate task is to pose a political alternative to the existing regime, writes Mike Macnair, not wait for the 'transitional method' to produce soviets. This article concludes his series on 'permanent revolution'
Spontaneity and Marxist theory
06 Sep 2007
What is the relationship between unorganised mass movements and the revolutionary party? Mike Macnair continues his series on 'permanent revolution'
For a minimum programme!
30 Aug 2007
Continuing his series on 'permanent revolution', Mike Macnair suggests that the victory of workers' power through a democratic republic does not remove the distinction between the two parts of the communist programme
What's a worker's wage?
09 Aug 2007
Section 3.5 of the CPGB's Draft programme, 'Trade unions', was the latest to be discussed at the London Communist Forum held on July 29. London comrades are continuing their study of 'Immediate demands' as part of the process of redrafting. Peter Manson reports
What is workers' power?
09 Aug 2007
A workers' state cannot be determined by property forms, argues Mike Macnair
'Transitional' to what?
02 Aug 2007
Setting the scene for a series of articles on 'permanent revolution', Mike Macnair argues that the dictatorship of the proletariat must take the specific form of the democratic republic
Debating programme
26 Jul 2007
The task of redrafting the CPGB's Draft programme is continuing, with the debate on section 3, 'Immediate demands', well underway in London. Simon Wells reports
Proposition number one and one-dimensional Marxism
05 Jul 2007
The SWP leadership has jumped on the 'stop climate change' bandwagon. But, argues Jack Conrad, if they want to be taken seriously the first thing for them to do is to reformulate their proposition one
Defeat was fault of enemy machine guns
25 May 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Dave Brown and Gerry Downing who argued last week that the defeats of the 20th century are not grounds to rethink the strategic ideas of the early Comintern
Key weapon of struggle
11 May 2007
The task of debating the CPGB Draft programme, a necessarily protracted prelude to a full redraft and its submission to the organisation as a whole for final discussion and approval, is now well underway. Mary Godwin reports
Ten versus ten
10 May 2007
Jack Conrad offers an alternative to the Socialist Party's method and its programme in the run-up to this Saturday's conference of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party
Propaganda for a lost generation
26 Apr 2007
Phil Sharpe replies to Mike Macnair on the question of the Marxist party's programme
Link in the chain
19 Apr 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group elaborates his theory of 'democratic permanent revolution'
Programme, or ad hoc reflections?
19 Apr 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Phil Sharpe on the question of programme