27/01/2008

• 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
  • Structure, organisation and tasks
  • Founding principles
  • Programme
• 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