Tag Archives: Lenin

Breaking with the cold war consensus

Has today's anti-Stalinist left sleepwalked into a Stalinoid conception of 'Bolshevism'? This is an edited and expanded version of the speech delivered by Ben Lewis (CS executive & CPGB)  to the March 31-April 1 Platypus convention in Chicago. First published here. I must begin by thanking Platypus for hosting this debate. It is a shame that ...

The book that didn’t bark – Lars T Lih

Image: Storming of the Bastille in July 1789: proletarian and petty bourgeoisie then exert their power, according to Kautsky

Independent scholar Lars T Lih introduces excerpts from Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France', published in English for the first time. This article first appeared in the Weekly Worker. Storming of the Bastille in July 1789: proletarian and petty bourgeoisie then exert their power, according to Kautsky At the end of 1904, Karl Kautsky began ...

Carrot and stick

Israelis must be forced to abandon Zionism

James Turley, member of CS and the CPGB, takes issue with other Weekly Worker writers on the question of self-determination and the prospects for Arab unity It became an obvious necessity for the CPGB to tidy up its line on Israel/Palestine as the question of Zionism flowered into a full-scale war between our organisation and the ...

Rediscovering Lenin

Communist Students raise the banner of Lenin

Lars T Lih is an acclaimed scholar living in Canada. Ben Lewis spoke to him about his book, Lenin rediscovered: ‘What is to be done?’ in context (2006) and some of the questions it raises for the left in understanding its own history and tradition One of the themes of Lenin rediscovered was Lenin’s closeness to ...

The party we fight for

Our party must be as open and democratic as the society we fight for, argues Dan Macintyre On the left you will hear much about the need for a ‘revolutionary party' or a ‘vanguard party' to organise and strengthen the working class struggle for a socialist society. Indeed, there are many groups on today's left who ...

Excuse me

James Padmore, elected unopposed to the executive of Communist Students, has sent this letter: I was unable to attend the Communist Students conference in December but, based on the report in the Weekly Worker, it seems that it ...