Revolutionary theory, strategy and the far left

Why we need a revolutionary party

Revolutionary leadership is needed to break the hold of the reformists and win the working class to communism.

Workers Power  ·  01 October 1998

Which road: reform or revolution?

Can capitalism be reformed through parliament?

Workers Power  ·  01 September 1998

The origins of scientific socialism

How Marx and Engels transformed socialist ideas into a scientific critique of capitalism.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 1998

Resolution on the Characterisation of the Working Class

A political-economic analysis of the working class under capitalism.

Workers Power  ·  01 June 1998

Marxism versus postmodernism

By Colin Lloyd “The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art or social class, the ‘crisis’ of Leninism, social democracy or the welfare state etc. etc.); taken together, […]

Workers Power  ·  01 January 1997

Nationalism, Nation States and National Liberation

Principles, strategy and tactics in the struggle for national liberation.

Workers Power  ·  19 April 1995

The Politics of the SWP: A Trotskyist Critique [2nd Edition]

A comprehensive critique of the politics of the SWP and IS tradition, covering State Capitalism, Third Campism, the party question, Economism, women, the trade unions, the general strike and Ireland.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 1994

Theses on the United Front

Theses on the united front and how revolutionaries use the tactic to win support and leadership within workers' struggles

Workers Power  ·  01 January 1994

Marxism and the national question

Is the national question Marxism's achilles heel?

Workers Power  ·  30 September 1993

30 Theses in Defence of Trotskyism

1992 edition of our theses on the nature and principles of Trotskyism.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 1992

Theses on the Early Stages of Party Building

Theses on the method and principles of the organisation of pre-party communist groups

Workers Power  ·  01 July 1992

Marxism and Women’s Liberation

A Marxist analysis of the origins and forms of women's oppression and the communist programme for liberation.

Workers Power  ·  01 December 1989

Theses on Electoral Tactics

How should revolutionaries operate in elections and parliament?

Workers Power  ·  01 October 1987

Gramsci and the revolutionary tradition

An article on the 50th anniversary of Gramsci's death examines the enigma of his contribution to Marxism

Workers Power  ·  01 September 1987

Theses on the Anti-Imperialist United Front

Resolution outlining the tactics of communists towards non-proletarian classes in the struggle against imperialism in the semi-colonies.

Workers Power  ·  31 December 1986

Communists and nuclear power

The communist programme for the nuclear power industry.

Workers Power  ·  31 December 1986

Theses on Reformism

Theses on reformism, reformist parties, the united front, and labor, affiliation, entry, and electoral tactics.

Workers Power  ·  01 March 1983

The Fundamentals of our Programme (1983)

A general outline of our early programme, precursor to the Trotskyist Manifesto and From Protest to Power

Workers Power  ·  01 March 1983

Revolution and Counter-revolution in Poland

Theses agreed on the Solidarnosc movement and political crisis in Poland by the early member of the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 1982

Communism and Women’s Liberation

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Workers Power  ·  08 March 1980

Party and Programme: Lenin and Luxemburg against Opportunism and Centrism – Part 3

Dave Hughes concludes the series by looking at Lenin and Luxemburg’s fights for the revolutionary programme within the Second International In the last article we examined the struggle waged by Lenin and the Bolsheviks within the shattered framework of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party between 1903 and 1912. We showed that this was a struggle against opportunism […]

Workers Power  ·  04 October 1978

Party and Programme: Bolshevism Versus Opportunism 1903 – 1912 – Part 2

This article is devoted to the debate on the political and organisational heritage of Trotskyism and Leninism to which the Workers’ Socialist League, the International Marxist Group and the International-Communist League contributed in the 1970s What is being debated? The IMG have centred the debate around their own current ’unity offensive’. In the series of […]

Workers Power  ·  10 July 1978

Party & programme: from communism to social democracy

A three-part series explaining the importance of programme in Marx, Engels and Lenin.

Workers Power  ·  04 October 1977

Ireland – High time the British left took sides

The war in the Six Counties is a war between British imperialism and the Irish people. But this fact is still not clear to many on the British left.

Workers Power  ·  29 November 1975

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