Gang of One: The Fall as Anti-Group
Lawrence Parker, August 26, 2026
Hailing The Fall as a mere instance of working-class subjectivity or as a set of mangled literary intakes fails to understand the terms of Mark E Smith’s critique, writes Lawrence Parker. Read Article.
Seen This Movie Before: Dylan Comes Round Again
Lawrence Parker, March 5, 2025
Why is Bob Dylan’s ‘apostasy’ in turning his back on the liberal-left folk establishment in the mid-1960s endlessly replayed? Lawrence Parker investigates. Read Article.
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
Lawrence Parker, May 10, 2024
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None of these stories stack up, writes Lawrence Parker. Read Article.
More or Less Erfurt? The CPGB’s 1939 Draft Programme
Lawrence Parker, October 20, 2023
Lawrence Parker details the history of and reception to the document which, he argues, drew upon "disgraced" figures such as Kautsky and Bukharin and captured the CPGB’s Janus-faced nature at the outset of the Second World War. Read Article.
Two Souls Within His Breast: Georg Lukács, 1925-29
Lawrence Parker, January 10, 2023
Lawrence Parker argues that existing Trotskyist schemas around the revolutionary career of Georg Lukács in the mid-to-late 1920s are fallacious in the extreme. Read Article.