Electoral work

“The CPGB will in the forthcoming general election of 2005 urge support for all anti-occupation, working class candidates.” (adopted at the CPGB member's aggregate on December 11 2004)

• Dismal results of non-Respect left May 12 2005
  While Respect achieved some impressive votes, writes Peter Manson, the general election clearly demonstrated the continuing decline of the rest of the left
• Results for left candidates May 12 2005
  List of all left candidates, including the anti-occupation Labour left
• An infantile disorder May 12 2005
  Graham Bash gives a Labour left view on the outcome of the general election
• Law of the valleys May 12 2005
  Cameron Richards looks at the left and right in Wales
• Wishing away the national question May 12 2005
  Anne McShane analyses the election results in Northern Ireland
  
• Why 35.3% of the votes equals 55.1% of the seats May 12 2005
  Steve Cooke exlpains why the working class must fight for democratic reforms to the electoral system
  

• Election issue April 28 2005
  • Vote Cohen, McDonnell, Qureshi and Riordan
    Most of Labour’s ‘antiwar’ candidates fudge on the issue of the occupation of Iraq, writes Peter Manson
  • CPB: Business as usual
    Mark Fischer argues against a vote for the six canddiates of the Morning Star's Communist Party of Britain
  • The leftovers
    Only one candidate from the Socialist Green Unity Coalition does not deserve a vote, argues Tina Becker - Pete Radcliff from the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
  • No vote for IWCA
    Steve Moorhouse explains why the candidate of the Independent Working Class Association should not be supported
  • SWP backs Reg for Sedgefield
    Should communists support Reg Keys? Phil Rawlinson is not convinced
  • Who to vote for on May 5
    The following working class candidates are calling for the unconditional and immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq
  • Echoing Prescott's call?
    Cameron Richards looks at Wales at election time and is dismayed by 'Forward Wales, the Welsh Socialist Party'
  • No answers from the left
    Who to vote for in the 2005 general elections? The pathetic advice given by most of Britain’s revolutionary organisations reflects the fragmented nature of the left, writes Tina Becker - and the terminal decline of the sects
  • Little Britain and their points systems
    Eddie Ford looks at the nationalist right in this election
    

• Vote SSP - critically April 14 2005
  Alan Fox looks at the Scottish Socialist Party’s general electionchallenge and urges support, even though it espouses nationalism and a reformist socialism
• Vote Labour anti-war April 7 2005
  Mark Fischer investigates which Labour candidates deserve our vote
• Drawing a class line between candidates March 24 2005
  Should communists urge a vote for Respect in the general election? Only when the individual candidates can be broadly regarded as part of the working class movement, argues Peter Manson
• Drawing the class line March 17 2005
  With a general election looming on the horizon, communists should support only those working class politicians who stand unequivocally against the Iraq war and the subsequent occupation of that country, argues Mark Fischer
  
• Popular fronts and why our principles matter March 17 2005
  Jack Conrad examines the nature of the Respect coalition, its shortfalls and why Communists should within inside it to establish class lines throughout its political programme
• Dave Nellist, interrupted March 3 2005
  Is the new Socialist Green Unity Coalition a retro Socialist Alliance circa 1990s? If so, wonders Mark Fischer, what’s the point?
• Communist manifesto - Euro elections June 10 1999
• Communist manifesto - Local elections May 7 199819