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
What kind of programme?
22 Feb 2007
Mary Godwin reports from the second London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, held on Sunday February 18
One step forward, no steps back
15 Feb 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group outlines his theory of 'democratic permanent revolution'
The April theses and permanent revolution
11 Jan 2007
The CPGB's 'extreme democracy' presupposes economic inequality, argues Gerry Downing
The test of 1917
04 Jan 2007
Did events force Lenin to jettison his 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' formulation after the fall of tsarism? Or was this formulation concretised in the republic of workers', peasants' and soldiers' soviets? Jack Conrad continues his study of the communist programme
Permanent revolution and state power
07 Dec 2006
As Jack Conrad shows, the Marx-Engels theory of permanent revolution does not preclude the workers' party participating in government
The transition to socialism
30 Nov 2006
Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, examines some of the central elements of Marx's theory about the future society
Trotskyite economism?
30 Nov 2006
Leon Trotsky's Transitional programme is based on the communist method of Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, writes Gerry Downing
Programming the Russian revolution
30 Nov 2006
Like German social democracy, Bolshevism had a minimum-maximum party programme. It was their DNA. But, asks Jack Conrad, was their programme irretrievably flawed, as argued by Tony Cliff and the SWP?
A vital task
23 Nov 2006
After the launch of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, and the CPGB decision to redraft its Draft programme, Nick Rogers identifies possible weaknesses in the current version
Our republic
23 Nov 2006
For too long the left has dismissed minimum-maximum programmes. Jack Conrad argues that as well as shortcomings, gaps and faults there is much that can positively be learnt from them
Difficult but refreshing alternative
23 Nov 2006
Joe Craig of the Irish group, Socialist Democracy, welcomes the formation of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, but wonders whether he might have misunderstood the politics of the CPGB
Programmatic masks and transitional fleas
16 Nov 2006
Is Leon Trotsky's Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against Trotskyite economism
Desperate evasion and sectarianism
09 Nov 2006
A 'republican socialist party' in Britain that eschews Marxism must be a concession to nationalism. Mike Macnair responds to Dave Craig
Programme and its structure
09 Nov 2006
Why do communists give their programme such importance and go to such pains to develop, guard and enrich it? Jack Conrad begins a short series by examining the background to the CPGB's Draft programme
Republican democracy and revolutionary patience
15 Jun 2006
Mike Macnair concludes his series on communist strategy by throwing down the challenge to the existing left