Party & Programme > Bolshevism
Fur flies over Lenin
22 Mar 2012
What has the debate over 1912 got to do with current communist practice? James Turley answers the philistines
Lessons of October
26 Oct 2006
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at how the Bolsheviks combined illegality and legality
Russia 1917 and the global revolution
26 Oct 2006
What were the conditions that made Russia ripe for revolution? What were the factors that led to its failure? Boris Kagarlitsky , one of Russia's leading Marxists, argues for a dialectical approach in analysing the Soviet Union and resuming the tasks of October
Popular nails in the 'official' coffin
31 Aug 2006
Lawrence Parker reviews Kevin Morgan's Bolshevism and the British left part 1: 'Labour legends and Russian gold', Lawrence and Wishart, 2006, pp320, £18.99
Origins of 'Leninism'
31 Aug 2006
Mike Macnair reviews Lars T Lih's Lenin rediscovered: What is to be done? in context Brill, 2006, pp867, â¬129
Communist strategy and the party form
27 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair examines the Leninist 'party of a new type' and disentangles its advantages and shortcomings from the necessity of splitting from the Second International
War and revolutionary strategy
20 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair puts the record straight on Lenin's call for defeatism and insists on the necessity of the left taking the democratic question of arms seriously
War and revolutionary strategy
13 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair puts the record straight on Lenin's call for defeatism and insists on the necessity of the left taking the democratic question of arms seriously
Control the bureaucrats
11 Nov 2004
What are the lessons of Lenin's 1917 pamphlet State and revolution? Not the need for a 'commune state', argues Mike Macnair, but the need for representatives to be made accountable
Imperialism versus internationalism
12 Aug 2004
In this concluding article, Mike Macnair argues that our most powerful enemy is the imperialist state. That is why communists are revolutionary defeatists
Imperialism lives on
05 Aug 2004
In the second of a short series of articles, Mike Macnair examines the role of the state in the global order and looks at alternatives to the 'imperialism of free trade' theory
AWL, Iraq and 'new imperialism'
29 Jul 2004
Mike Macnair argues that the failure of the AWL to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq is a symptom of their flawed analysis of imperialism
Respecting programme
05 Feb 2004
Jack Conrad contrasts the approach of the Bolsheviks to the tawdry attempts at self-justification by the opportunists in Respect
Party and programme
25 Jan 2001
Paul Le Blanc - Lenin and the revolutionary party - Humanities Press, 1993, pp417
Harry’s game
16 Dec 1999
Party notes
Permanent and national revolution
02 Dec 1999
Gerry Downing examines differences among the Bolsheviks on the national question