November 20, 2025 50 min read Our Programme and Transitional Demands Peter Taaffe 1995, Militant Labour Members’ Bulletin 13 FROM TIME to time it is necessary for our organisation to re-evaluate its programme, its...
November 19, 2025 7 min read The ‘Name Change’ Debate – Introduction Editor’s note: In 1996, a debate took place which became known as the ‘Name change debate’ in what was then Militant Labour, soon to...
November 18, 2025 1 min read Debates in the CWI Contents (1) The ‘Open Turn’, 1991-92 (2) The Collapse of Stalinism, 1991-92 (3) The ‘Name Change’ Debate, 1996 (4) Party, Programme, ...
November 18, 2025 1 min read Abbreviations Used in the ‘Open Turn’ Debate Editors note: While under threat of expulsion from the Labour Party, these documents used the following conventions: NEB – National editorial Bo...
November 18, 2025 66 min read The ‘Open Turn’ Debate – Introduction For Marxists, the crucial problem of strategy and tactics is this: How can a revolutionary minority win the support of the majority of the working cla...
November 18, 2025 2 min read The ‘Open Turn’, Debates in the CWI, 1991-92 Contents (1) Introduction (2) Scotland, Perspectives and Tasks, CWI Majority (xx xxx 1991) (3) Majority and Minority Resolutions (4) The New Turn – ...
November 4, 2025 12 min read Party, Programme, Reformism and the International – the ‘Scottish Debate’, Debates in the CWI, 1998-2001 Contents – Part 1 (1) Initial Proposals for a New Scottish Socialist Party – Scottish Militant Labour Executive Committee (6 March 1998) (...
November 3, 2025 150 min read Party, Programme, Reformism and the International Committee for a Workers’ International reply to the International Socialist Movement, August 2000 Introduction The ‘International Socialis...
China December 27, 2011 8 min read China: Market rule or party rule? Review – “The Party: The secret world of China’s Communist rulers”, by Richard McGregor, Allen Lane, 2010, £25 RICHARD McGREGOR previously wo...
October 2, 2009 12 min read China: a state of transition Andy Ford’s contribution to Socialism Today’s debate on China (Socialism Today No.131, September 2009) raises important theoretical questions abou...