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
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
Off the rails
01 Jun 2006
The launch of the Euston Manifesto on May 25 in London's Union Chapel showed that this 'initiative' - which has attracted a large amount of media attention - is totally bereft of vision, repeats all the standard CIA tropes about terrorism and, more than that, fears open debate
'Reformism from above'?
20 Apr 2006
Anne Mc Shane compares Respect's election materials to Socialist Worker's 'What the Socialist Workers Party stands for' column
'Reformism from above'?
13 Apr 2006
Anne Mc Shane compares Respect's election materials to Socialist Worker's 'What the Socialist Workers Party stands for' column
What kind of new workers' party?
06 Apr 2006
The question of a new party is appearing on the agenda of the workers' movement over and over again. But few are fighting for one based on a Marxist programme - including most of the Marxists, paradoxically. Nick Rogers gives an overview of this crucial debate
Reform coalition, or mass strike?
30 Mar 2006
In the third article in this series, Mike Macnair examines the basis of two contending strategies for working class advance
Fight for a Marxist party
09 Mar 2006
The Socialist Party's campaign for a new workers' party must be put on firm Marxist foundations, says Ian Mahoney
Charter of platitudes
09 Mar 2006
The Friday before the EPA saw meetings of the 10 or so ESF networks. Potentially the most important is the one that is has been drafting the 'Charter of principles for another Europe'