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- Workers’
militia and burning necessity January 4 2007
Is workers’ defence a question for the future or
should communists champion the right to bear arms today?
Jim Moody looks at the issues
- The
test of 1917 January 4 2007
Did events force Lenin to jettison his ‘democratic
dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry’
formulation after the fall of tsarism? Or was this formulation
concretised in the republic of workers’, peasants’
and soldiers’ soviets? Jack Conrad continues his
study of the communist programme
- Kautsky,
Lenin and Trotsky December 14 2006
What were the differences, strengths and similarities?
Jack Conrad investigates
- Permanent
revolution and state power December 7 2006
As Jack Conrad shows, the Marx-Engels theory of permanent
revolution does not preclude the workers’ party
participating in government
- Programming
the Russian revolution November 30 2006
Like German social democracy, Bolshevism had a minimum-maximum
party programme. It was their DNA. But, asks Jack Conrad,
was their programme irretrievably flawed, as argued
by Tony Cliff and the SWP?
- Trotskyite
economism?
Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme is based
on the communist method of Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks,
writes Gerry Downing
- A
vital task November 23 2006
After the launch of the Campaign for a Marxist Party,
and the CPGB decision to redraft its Draft programme,
Nick Rogers identifies possible weaknesses in the current
versio
- Our
republic November 23 2006
For too long the left has dismissed minimum-maximum
programmes. Jack Conrad argues that as well as shortcomings,
gaps and faults there is much that can positively be
learnt from them
- Programmatic
masks and transitional fleas November 16 2006
Is Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme the last
word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does
it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad
argues against Trotskyite economism
- Programme
and its structure November 9 2006
Why do communists give their programme such importance
and go to such pains to develop, guard and enrich it?
Jack Conrad begins a short series by examining the background
to the CPGB’s Draft programme
- Desperate
evasion and sectarianism November 9 2006
A ‘republican socialist party’ in Britain
that eschews Marxism must be a concession to nationalism.
Mike Macnair responds to Dave Craig
- 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
- Communists
and open polemic April 7 2005
In the context of the SSP and the censorship of unacceptable
views Ian Mahoney contrasts the big brother approach
of Eddie Truman with that of the CPGB with its Leninist
tradition of polemical exchange
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The spectre of
communism and the relevance of the Communist Manifesto
On December 12 of last year, the Communist Party of
Great Britain (CPGB) and the Communist Party of Turkey
(TKP) organised a joint day school on the significance
of the Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels. Here's a brief summary of how the debate unfolded.
Below, three perspectives on the Comunist Manifesto:
- Communists
and the popular front March 31 2005
How should we respond to unprincipled alliances? Neither
by prettifying popular front-type projects nor by sectarian
abstention, argues Mike Macnair
- Communists
and alliances February 24 2005
Mary Godwin reports on the February 19-20 CPGB weekend
school
- Back
to programme July 22 2004
In this week's 'Party Notes' Mark Fischer argues that
the lack of a programme is coming to haunt the Socialist
Workers Party
- Economism
and the necessity of programme August 5 2004
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its
flattery of economic struggles - and the constant downplaying
of the primacy of the political
- Hiding
their views February 19 2004
Ian Mahoney reviews Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels The
Communist manifesto (introduction Chris Harman)
- What
about the workers? January 15 2004
“The search for votes pushes a party towards a
softening of its message, towards a search for accommodation
with the union leaders in order to secure backing and
finance”. So wrote Socialist Worker in November
1995. So what's changed? Marcus Ström calls for
a party that stands in elections but promotes, in both
propaganda and practice, the ideas and programme of
revolution and democracy
- Big
people and the small state January 8 2004
The communist project is about the maximisation of democracy,
and the minimisation of the state, writes Jack Conrad
- Democracy
not ‘justice’ October 23 2003
Do Salma Yaqoob's and George Monbiot's 'Principles of
unity' provide a solid basis for a common political
programme? Mike Macnair thinks not
- What
is 'sectarianism'? May 1 2003
Mark Fischer analyses a debilitating condition
- Theory
and practice April 24 2003
Jack Conrad looks at the question of praxis in the struggle
for a Communist Party
- Semi-religious
method - Ian Donovan reviews the IBT's edition of
Trotsky's Transitional programme. October 7 1999
- The struggle
for democracy - Danny Hammill looks at the battle
for democracy and its place in the socialist project.
July 29 1999
- Comrade 100%
- Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks
at Trotsky's position on China. July 22 1999
- Marxism and national
self-determination - Part II of Jack Conrad's look
at spontaneous economism and the challenge of revolutionary
democracy. May 20 1999
- Marxism and the
democratic republic - Part I of Jack Conrad's look
at spontaneous economism and the challenge of revolutionary
democracy. May 13 1999
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