Party & Programme
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
Let Hopi affiliate
28 Oct 2010
The leadership of the STWC not only divides the anti-war movement, but risks discrediting it and making it appear ridiculous, writes Mark Fischer
Adding a new dimension
28 Oct 2010
Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran is standing for the STWC steering committee. This is her election statement
Workers' protests continue despite pension law vote
28 Oct 2010
Mass conflict is leading to broader political conclusions, reports Jean-Michel Edwin
A programme to unite all Marxists
21 Oct 2010
Peter Manson reports on the second day of the October 16-17 CPGB aggregate
Osborne the butcher
21 Oct 2010
Cuts campaigns should move towards unity, says James Turley
Scotching the myths
21 Oct 2010
Historian Lars T Lih dissects one of Lenin's most famous but most misunderstood pamphlets, 'What is to be done?'
Divided we stand
07 Oct 2010
We have better solutions, asserts James Turley
What the left thinks of Ed
07 Oct 2010
Jim Gilbert rounds up the response of the left to Labour's new leader
'April theses': myth and reality
07 Oct 2010
Many on the left see Lenin as undergoing a conversion to Trotskyism in 1917. Lars T Lih takes on this myth and reveals a Lenin, who while converging with Trotsky in certain respects, still has a different strategy. There is also the possible influence Kautsky exerted on Lenin
Why I am not an Israeli peace activist
07 Oct 2010
Genuine socialists fight against the Zionist project, writes Moshé Machover
CNWP: dead men's shoes
30 Sep 2010
Phil Kent examines the continuing project to replace the Labour Party
The phases of communism
23 Sep 2010
Jack Conrad concludes his discussion of the CPGB's Draft programme by looking at socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat
Light and air of political freedom
16 Sep 2010
North American scholar Lars T Lih explores the varying attitude of Marxists towards universal suffrage, freedom of the press and freedom of association
Neoliberal ghosts and the art of brevity
16 Sep 2010
Jack Conrad answers criticisms of the CPGB's Draft programme in the second of a three-part article
Goldilocks and the communist programme
09 Sep 2010
In an opening article, Jack Conrad picks out and assesses various criticisms of and alternatives to the CPGB's Draft programme