CPGB-WW polemic
Debate between the AWL and the CPGB (Weekly Worker)
Kabul 1978 and Petrograd 1917: In defence of the October Revolution by Sean Matgamna. An analysis of the claim by The Leninist and the Weekly Worker that the Stalinist coup in Kabul in April 1978 was a great and authentic revolution (pdf, 338k).
Open letter to the CPGB, by Martyn Hudson and Lawrie Coombs, Solidarity 3/30, 15 May 2003
Crazies of the world unite, Solidarity 3/30, 15 May 2003
Weekly Worker goes ballistic on Iraq, by Martin Thomas, 16 April 2003
On the coat-tails of the SWP, by Martyn Hudson, Solidarity 3/27, 3 April 2003
Under the sign of the oxymoron: the contradictions of the CPGB/WW on Stalinism and democracy, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 3/22, 25 January 2003
Marxism and karaoke-Leninism: selected documents from debates between the AWL and CPGB/WW (pdf, 108k)
AWL and CPGB/WW debate "party and class": report by Paul Hampton of the 25 January 2003 joint day school
Fantasy opportunism and the Muslim Association, by Clive Bradley. (For a briefing on the Muslim Association, click here; and for other comment and material, here.
The Socialist Alliance and the labour movement - debate between the AWL and the CPGB, May 2001
Weekly Worker on Afghanistan, October 2001
AWL letter to the CPGB about a joint paper, 22 February 2002
Reply from Jack Conrad of the CPGB
Stalinism and the return of the repressed: Reply by Martin Thomas to Jack Conrad, 12 March 2002
AWL calls for debate on new paper, Solidarity 16 March 2002
Jack Conrad's reply to "Return of the Repressed?"
Jack Conrad's statement on Leeds
Leeds and the politics of the apolitical, by Sean Matgamna
Never Stalinist?, by Martin Thomas
AWL comment: snap out of it!, by Martin Thomas
Jack Conrad's seven-part polemic against AWL, parts (November 2002 to January 2003) one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven.
Schema or banality: the CPGB and "federal republic"
Notes on Ellen Meiksins Wood, by Clive Bradley