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After the defeats of the 20th century, we have seen a process of disintegration of proletarian politics. Genuine Marxists must engage in a process of recomposition. Above all, the left needs a rigorous approach to theory, an attempt to rearticulate communism as a viable alternative to a global capitalism in terminal decline. We call on all serious partisans of the working class to join us in this work.


Drip-fed capitalism

The past week has seen the spectacular collapse of giant financial institutions and unprecedented state intervention. Hillel Ticktin spoke to Peter Manson about the likely outcome. Read the article in this week's Weekly Worker here.


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Brian Keenan correspondence

For over a year from autumn 1987, Jack Conrad (CPGB) corresponded with the late Brian Keenan, a leading member of the IRA, while he was held as an Irish POW in a British prison. We now publish their correspondence in full here.

Communist University 2008

If you came to Communist University 2008, we should like to hear your view of it so that we can do even better next time. Email office@cpgb.org.uk to let us know what you thought of it. The CPGB's next Communist University will be held in August 2009.

If you missed this year's excellent school of the CPGB, you can watch some of the discussions by clicking here. Some of the openings will also be published in the Weekly Worker.

Below, the introduction by CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer.


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Revolutionary strategy - Marxism and the challenge of left unity

The free-market triumphalism of the 1990s is over. Early 21st century capitalism looks like Karl Marx’s description: growing extremes of wealth and poverty, and irrepressible boom-bust cycles. But for the moment, the beneficiary of growing anti-capitalism is forms of right wing religious and nationalist nostalgia politics. The political left remains in the shadow of its disastrous failures in the 20th century.

The centre-left, insofar as it has not joined forces with the neoliberal right, clings to nationalist and bureaucratic-statist nostalgia for the social-democratic Cold War era. The far left clings to the coat-tails of the centre-left. It is barred from uniting itself - let alone anyone else - by its unwillingness to think critically about the ideas of the early Communist International, especially on the ‘revolutionary party’.

To get beyond these traps we need to re-examine critically the strategic ideas of socialists since Marx and Engels’ time and their development. In this book, Mike Macnair begins this task.

Click here to find out how to order this book
Click here to see other CPGB books, some of which can be read in full online


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Weekly Worker 738 (September 25 2008)

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