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- CMP
steps up a gear March 22 2007
Peter Manson reports on the first national members'
meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
- What
kind of programme? February 22 2007
Mary Godwin reports from the second London meeting of
the Campaign for a Marxist Party, held on Sunday February
18
- Nationalism
versus Marxism February 8 2007
The Campaign for a Marxist Party held its first Glasgow
public meeting on Saturday February 3. It took the form
of a debate entitled ‘The way forward for the left’,
featuring Hillel Ticktin for the CMP; Jack Ferguson
of the Scottish Socialist Party’s executive committee;
Gordon Morgan, national treasurer of Solidarity; and
Yassamine Mather of the Hands Off the People of Iran
campaign. Peter Kennedy reports
- What
sort of programme? January 25 2007
Members of the Campaign for a Marxist Party in the Midlands
area met last Saturday (January 22) in Birmingham. Dave
Spencer reports
- For
democratic, republican self-government January 25
2007
The working class should be doing nothing less than
setting society’s political agenda, argues Nick
Rogers
- How
to fight for party January 25 2007
Around 20 comrades came together for the first London
meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party on January
21. This took the form of a debate and discussion on
the immediate tasks of the CMP, initiated by Mike Macnair
of the CPGB and Chris Grey of New Interventions. Peter
Manson reports
- Don’t
revive absurd slogans January 18 2007
Lenin’s pre-April 1917 ‘democratic dictatorship
of the proletariat and peasantry’ was unworkable,
writes Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
- Difficult
but refreshing alternative November 23 2006
Joe Craig of the Irish group, Socialist Democracy, welcomes
the formation of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, but
wonders whether he might have misunderstood the politics
of the CPGB …
- Uniting
Marxists as Marxists November 9 2006
Jim Moody reports on the launch conference of the Campaign
for a Marxist Party
- Marxist party
- now or never November 2 2006
Mike Macnair writes on this weekend's launch conference
of the 'Campaign for a new Marxist party'
- Marxist party
- an illusion
In the absence of a world revolutionary party, a
national communist party could only be a capitulation
to British nationalism, argues Dave Craig of the
Revolutionary Democratic Group
- Developing a Marxist
programme October 19 2006
Mike Macnair continues the debate on what is meant by
a Marxist party and how to campaign for one, begun by
Critique’s call for a conference on November 4
- The
call for a party October 12 2006
Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, explains the thinking
behind the November 4 conference to establish a Campaign
for a New Marxist Party
- New
left for old October 12 2006
Mike Macnair reviews Max Elbaum's Revolution in the
air: sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che Verso,
2002, pp370, £20
- Campaign
for a party - or another sect? October 5 2006
The organised left cannot be bypassed in the fight for
a Marxist party, argues Mike Macnair
- Bringing
about a Marxist party September 21 2006
Why must we go through the existing left rather than
appealing directly to ‘the class’? Mike Macnair
explains
- Three
political commitments September 14 2006
Unity not around ‘Trotskyism’, insists Mike
Macnair, but around class independence, democracy and
internationalism
- Scientific
socialism, not ‘follow my leader’ August
31 2006
Mary Godwin reports from the Communist University, which
took place from August 12-19 in south London
- What
sort of 'Marxist party'? August 3 2006
A new formation must avoid from the start all the failings
of the Trotskyist sects, writes Mike Macnair
- Fight
where Marxists are July 13 2006
The organisation of a conference by the Critique group
to campaign for a new Marxist party is welcome, writes
Mike Macnair (see Letters Weekly Worker July 6). But
how far it will get is problematic
- Taking
Marxism seriously July 6 2006
Nick Rogers draws lessons for today from the experiences
of Marx and Engels in the First International
Series: The revolutionary party
- Floundering
towards Eurocommunism February 16 2006
While Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
theorists flounder towards Eurocommunism, the SWP’s
Alex Callinicos can only answer them with evasion. In
the first of a number articles, Mike Macnair discusses
revolutionary strategy
- Revolutionary
strategy and Marxist conclusions February 23 2006
In the second in a series of articles, Mike Macnair
continues his examination of right-moving Ligue Communiste
Révolutionnaire theorists and the response of
the SWP’s Alex Callinicos
- Reform
coalition, or mass strike? March 30 2006
In the third article in this series, Mike Macnair examines
the basis of two contending strategies for working class
advance
- The
revolutionary strategy of centrists April 13 2006
In the forth article in this series, Mike Macnair turns
his attention to Kautsky’s perspective of patient
organisation and party building in the years before
World War I. There were undoubted strengths in this
strategy. But fatal flaws too
- War
and revolutionary strategy April 20 2006
Mike Macnair puts the record straight on Lenin’s
call for defeatism and insists on the necessity of the
left taking the democratic question of arms seriously
- Communist strategy
and the party form April 27 2006
Mike Macnair examines the Leninist ‘party of a
new type’ and disentangles its advantages and shortcomings
from the necessity of splitting from the Second International
- Unity
in diversity May 11 2006
How does the concept of the united front fit into the
struggle for a Communist Party? Mike Macnair continues
his examination of strategy
- The
minimum platform and extreme democracy May 18 2006
Under what conditions should communists participate
in government? Mike Macnair revisits the strategic problem
of authority
- Political
consciousness and international unity May 25 2006
What is the link between national and international
revolution? What is the role of the workers’ international?
Mike Macnair continues his series on communist strategy
- Comintern
and the Trotskyists June 8 2006
What sort of international does the workers’ movement
need? Mike Macnair looks at the negative lessons of
previous attempts
- Republican democracy and revolutionary
patience June 15 2006
Mike Macnair concludes his series on communist strategy
by throwing down the challenge to the existing left
- What
kind of new workers’ party? April 6 2006
The question of a new party is appearing on the agenda
of the workers’ movement over and over again. But
few are fighting for one based on a Marxist programme
- including most of the Marxists, paradoxically. Nick
Rogers gives an overview of this crucial debate
- Fight
for a Marxist party March 9 2006
The Socialist Party's campaign for a new workers’
party must be put on firm Marxist foundations, says
Ian Mahoney s
- Security,
control and principled debate February 2 2006
Does our paper’s fight for transparency in the
workers’ movement play games with “people’s
lives and livelihoods”? A letter from Mike Davies,
a member of the left nationalist group, Cymru Goch,
makes that charge. Mark Fischer replies
- Representation
- crisis unresolved January 26 2006
As expected, the RMT’s ‘Crisis in working
class representation’ conference was almost entirely
a gathering of the organised left, writes Peter Manson.
The union bureaucracy has no intention of founding a
new political party
- Wanted:
a party with a Marxist programme January 19 2006
The January 21 conference on working class political
representation called by the RMT - the largest rail
union - looks as if it will be a pretty tame affair,
says Mark Fischer, who also spoke to RMT activist Greg
Tucker about the conference
- A
Marxist party without deformations July 15 2004
At the CPGB’s Marxism 2004 fringe, Hillel Ticktin,
editor of Critique, argued that material conditions
have opened up wide opportunities for the left and new
organisational possibilities
- Emphasising
democracy October September 30 2004
What kind of party does the working class require in
2004, 80 years after the death of VI Lenin? In this
article, based on his speech to the CPGB’s Communist
University in August, Hillel Ticktin looks at the lessons
for today of Lenin’s What is to be done?
- Putting
our own house in order August 12 2004
Terry Teague is secretary of the Liverpool-based Campaign
for a Mass Party of the Working Class. Peter Manson
spoke to hi
- United
or republican? August 12 2004
Dave Craig gives his assessment of the Campaign for
a Mass Party of the Working Class
- Respect
and opportunism January 22 2004
The Unity Coalition raises - once again - the question
of party, writes Jack Conrad
- In
defence of democratic centralism September 3 2003
Jack Conrad responds to the debate sparked by a previous
'Party notes' column
- On-off
front May 22 2003
Human liberation demands the organisation of the advanced
section of our class in a single, democratic-centralist,
party, writes Jack Conrad
- Towards
a European party November 21 2002
Rifondazione Comunista organised a seminar to discuss
the reality of a European politial party. Tina Becker
reports
- Build
a European Socialist Alliance November 14 2002
The left must grasp the opportunity of the 2004 European
parliamentary elections, argues Marcus Ström
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