Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
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Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson’s Without a Party, We Have Nothing. When replying to …
Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain
Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the …
The Mass Line as an Emancipatory Politics
Cam W responds to the recent debate between Taylor B and Donald Parkinson, outlining a Maoist approach to politics based on the mass line as …
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Ben Grove lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Reading: Christian Cail. Cheer …
Without a party, we have nothing
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s Beginning’s of Politics: DSA and the Uprising, arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: …
Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz
Parker and Peter join August Nimtz, the author of Lenin’s Electoral Strategy (now reprinted as The Ballot, The Streets– or Both) to discuss how Lenin …
Hold Your Fire!: A Warning to the Left
Daniel Newman urges patience and caution in the face of current political turmoil. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The deadliest …
From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend
Three of our writers are joined by veteran union organizer Chris Townsend for a podcast discussion on labor organizing across history and in the present …
The Problem of Unity: A Comparative Analysis
In a comparative study of Austro-Marxism, the French Socialist movement, and Bolshevism, Medway Baker argues for the left to seek unity around a programme of …
Some Words of Advice for our Comrades in the Streets
Throughout the United States, revolt against police violence and the state has broken out in response to the callous murder of George Floyd at the …
Progress of the Storm: Collaboration with Revolutionary Left Radio
We are very happy to release this crossover episode with Breht O’Shea from Revolutionary Left Radio and Red Menace! Remi (@cosmoproletan), Parker (@centristmarxist), and Donald …
The Need for Organizations that Organize
Ben Reynolds responds to Chris Koch’s The Need for Agitational Organizations. In a recent article titled ‘The Need for Agitational Organization’ Chris Koch argues that …
The Need for Agitational Organizations
Chris Koch argues that the current ailments of the modern left are a product of its class composition. To escape this predicament we must master …