Weekly Worker

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)

Debating in mysterious ways

The old slogan, "no bans and proscriptions", is making some headway on the left today. On the whole and on average, debate between different viewpoints on the left is more open, more civilised. Last week, however, a meeting in Leeds saw a plunge back into the old habits, one that would be alarming were it not so bizarre. It was a debate on "Marxism and Religion". A safe subject, you would think. Yet the speaker invited to represent the "militant atheist" point of view, Sean Matgamna, a writer for Solidarity, was excluded, and for strange reasons. The meeting, on Friday 20 September, was...

Building the party by proxy?

Martin Thomas replies to Mark Fischer. Download RTF file (15K) . Mark Fischer's original polemic is also available online .

Critical notes on the CPGB

A letter to Mark Fischer Hello Mark Fischer! Sacha showed me your recent letter, and I take the chance to make a few points on our differences. I think I have said it all before, in debates with you over the last few years. These "reflections on the CPGB/WW" turned out far longer than I intended and, because I am also putting it on the AWL internet, I have inserted subheads. To download the text, click here . (pdf, 35K). For the whole pamphlet, Marxism and karaoke-Leninism , including these notes, click here .

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