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
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Momentum builds behind France's third man
12 Apr 2012
Jean-Michel Edwin calls for critical support for Melenchon in this months presidential election
Presaging the 21st century
12 Apr 2012
Paul Mason, Why it is kicking off everywhere: the new global revolutions Verso 2012, pp244, £12.99,reviewed by Mark Kosman
Galloway shows what can be done
05 Apr 2012
How can the left make the most of the Bradford West result? Peter Manson joins the debate
1912 and 2012
05 Apr 2012
Paul Le Blanc argues that the Bolsheviks constituted themselves as a separate party at the Prague conference and advocates a 'united front' for today's disunited Marxist left
Both Pham Binh and Paul Le Blanc are wrong
05 Apr 2012
The left has never properly grasped the history and significance of Bolshevism, argues Mike Macnair
Breaking with the cold war consensus
05 Apr 2012
Has today's anti-Stalinist left sleepwalked into a Stalinoid conception of 'Bolshevism'? This is an edited and expanded version of the speech delivered by the CPGB's Ben Lewis to the March 31-April 1 Platypus convention in Chicago
Wanting to get Lenin wrong
29 Mar 2012
Pham Binh challenges those who insist on maintaining their fictional image of Lenin and the Bolsheviks - despite the overwhelming evidence
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
Memoirs of a loyal oppositionist
29 Mar 2012
Rossana Rossanda (translated by Romy Clark Giuliani) The comrade from Milan Verso 2010, pp384,
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
Occupational hazards
15 Mar 2012
As the St Paul's protest camp continues its transformation into a respectable pressure group with mainstream support, James Turley draws a few lessons
Expulsion and exclusion as war threat grows
08 Mar 2012
The SWP no longer controls Stop the War, writes Peter Manson, but its successors still practise SWP-style bureaucratism
Not our friend
08 Mar 2012
Cat Rylance's speech to the 2012 STWC conference on behalf of Communist Students
Silencing voices
08 Mar 2012
Workers Power is again embroiled in internal disputes. James Turley asks why it insists on hiding its internal differences