Party & Programme > Marxist unity
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Socialism or barbarism
04 Dec 2025
She called herself anti-Zionist, condemned the witch-hunt, demanded the abolition of the monarchy, denounced the evils of capitalism and set conference alight. This is the Zarah Sultana speech in full
Two rebel speeches
04 Dec 2025
A triumph for citizen Sultana
04 Dec 2025
Corbyn’s clique began the witch-hunt on day one, got its organisational strategy and standing orders passed and remains firmly in control of the levers of power. However, the left is clearly winning the battle for hearts and minds. Jack Conrad gives the view from inside the ACC hall
A party divided
04 Dec 2025
No wonder Jeremy Corbyn personally thanked Karie Murphy in his conference speech: she delivered a masterclass in manipulation, says Carla Roberts. But it was Zarah Sultana who reigned supreme - her defiance should inspire members to fight back in the branches too
Neither king nor empress
27 Nov 2025
Do not take sides in a power struggle between MPs. Stop the organised left being banned and proscribed. Vote for an emergency, a temporary collective leadership. Fight for a party republic. Jack Conrad outlines the communist case
All out for Liverpool!
20 Nov 2025
With fractures and splits at the top, conference, as the party’s sovereign body, ought to seize control and elect an emergency leadership. There is every reason to believe that such a bold initiative will be heartily welcomed by branches and members, says Carla Roberts
Doing things differently
06 Nov 2025
South Yorkshire Your Party regional assembly was a model of transparency, open debate, participation, democracy and control from below. Tina Becker, a member of the Sheffield proto-branch steering group, reports
Call for a Political Statement boycott
06 Nov 2025
Citing Tony Benn and his 1992 Commonwealth Bill, Steve Freeman of the Republican Labour Education Forum calls for dividing the working class movement in Britain along national lines, and a common organisation with the petty bourgeois Irish nationalists of Sinn Féin
Opening the second front
09 Oct 2025
Labourism dominates the working class electorate in Australia. Meanwhile, sectarianism dominates the left groups that pass themselves off as Marxist. Brunhilda Olding, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation, welcomes an initiative designed to challenge both labourism and sectarianism
Don’t put off democracy
04 Sep 2025
Max Shanly and Jack Conrad debated the pros and cons of sortition for the founding conference of Your Party. Should we seek to mirror the average? Or raise the average through electing delegates? Carla Roberts reports
Put politics in command
28 Aug 2025
Comrades in Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party, especially branch activists, are busy debating various forms of representation. All have their advocates and supporters, not least sortition. Jack Conrad is neither an advocate nor a supporter
Taking off … despite the leadership
21 Aug 2025
Contrary to what Zarah Sultana thinks, her OMOV proposals would make Your Party less, not more, democratic than even today’s Labour Party, warns Carla Roberts. Plus: the first reports from branches
Socialisms have prevented communism
12 Jun 2025
Peter Kennedy, a member of Talking About Socialism, responds to Mike Macnair. Obviously what he writes represents his own take on the contemporary situation and historic issues
Learning some elementary Russian
12 Jun 2025
Worthwhile unity can only be forged around a democratically agreed programme. But that necessarily involves minorities accepting majority votes. Demanding that majorities discard their programme and compromise on their principles is a non-starter, says Jack Conrad
Collaboration, yes; opportunism, no
05 Jun 2025
Programme is central. We have taken many years fashioning, discussing and fine-tuning. It would be the crassest opportunism to abandon what we have achieved. Jack Conrad replies for the CPGB