Polemic

Peaceful revolution? (7 parts)

The 'What we fight for' column of the CPGB states that "workers must be readied to make revolution - peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must." This has provoked some instructive debates amongst CPGB members. References to articles penned by the opposition can be found within the articles below.

• Formulation nine and the possibility of peaceful revolution - part 1 September 19 2002
  Jack Conrad responds to the recent debate over the nature of socialist revolution
• Formulation nine and the dictatorship of the proletariat - part 2 September 26 2002
  Jack Conrad continues his reply to those who have attacked the recently updated ‘What we fight for’ column as a move to the right
• Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Second International - part 3 October 3 2002
  In the third of his articles discussing peaceful and violent revolution Jack Conrad examines the use of the term ‘dictator-ship of the proletariat’ after Marx an Engels
• Russian means and the dictatorship of the minority - part 4 October 10 2002
  In the fourth of his series of articles Jack Conrad examines the background to Lenin’s use of the word ‘dictatorship’ and the role played by the Mensheviks
• Proletarian dictatorship as theory and practice - part 5 October 17 2002
  In the fifth part of his series of articles Jack Conrad discusses the contradictory impact of the October Revolution
• Dictatorship of the proletariat: Bolshevism versus Kautskyism - part 6 October 24 2002
  In the sixth part of his series of articles Jack Conrad discusses the debate between Lenin, Trotsky and Kautsky
• Preparing for power - part 7 October 31 2002
  In the seventh and concluding article in his series Jack Conrad peers into the future
  
  

Polemic against the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (7 parts)

AWL aricles and resolutions

Critical notes on CPGB

Marxism and Karaoke-Leninism

AWL resolution on CPGB

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• Leeds, lies and Owen MacThomas - part 1 November 28 2003
  Jack Conrad examines the warped logic of Sean Matgamna's and Martin Thomas's alter ego
• Afghanistan and Owen MacThomas - part 2 December 5 2002
  Jack Conrad continues his assessment of the recent behaviour of the Alliance of Workers' Liberty
• National questions and the AWL patriarch - part 3 December 12 2002
  Jack Conrad continues his reply to the recent disunity offensive mounted by the leadership of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
• Sectarian amateurism and the complacent world of Sean Matgamna - part 4 December 19 2002
  Jack Conrad continues his reply to comrade Matgamna's rambling 'Critical notes'
• Matgamna’s platonic republic - part 5 January 9 2003
  Jack Conrad continues his response to recent attacks by Sean Matgamna, patriarch of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
• Bourgeois revolution and Walter Mitty polemics - part 6 January 16 2003
  In his penultimate article in response to Sean Matgamna's rambling 'Tour de CPGB' Jack Conrad looks at the AWL's republicanism
• Origins and revolutionary tradition - part 7 January 23 2003
  Jack Conrad concludes his response to the 10,000-word stream-of-consciousness attack from the patriarch of the Alliance of Workers' Liberty