The notion there is just one true path, one analysis, one definition, one interpretation etc, is ridiculous. A well thought-out and thorough “World Perspectives Document” isn’t the end of the discussion; it’s just the beginning. When Marx wrote Ca... read more
In October 2013, Hannah Sell (Deputy General Secretary of the Socialist Party/CWI) came to my West London branch to do a talk on democratic centralism, laying down the Party line ‘interpretation’ of democratic centralism. Knowing that this was directl... read more
The debate (initially on the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall - LTRPF) within the Socialist Party actually started in mid 2012 in the public pages of the monthly journal, Socialism Today (for example, see http://www.socialismtoday.o... read more
A struggle within the Socialist Party of England and Wales and Socialist Party Scotland (both part of the Committee for a Workers International) started nearly two years ago over Marxist theory, which soon led to a questioning of the ideas held by the lea... read more
In recent issues of the Weekly Worker a controversy between Arthur Bough1, on the one side, and Bruce Wallace and Steve Dobbs2, on the other, has developed over some interesting questions. To begin with, let me say that Arthur Bough should at least take... read more
This article is part of a longer (work in progress) reply by Steve Dobbs and Bruce Wallace to Arthur Bough (Boffy) and his recent articles in the Weekly Worker. Specifically, this article below deals with the meaning of the rate of profit in relation to M... read more
Introduction (Steve Dobbs) Over the last few months, it seems that every man and his dog have declared themselves a Marxist. Last month we saw the New York Times ask “Was Marx Right?”, with a series of replies from various left commentators. This mont... read more
The leadership-recommended slate system for internal elections to the national leadership is used in most leninist groups. It is not a natural system arising from the workers own experiences and democratic instincts but something artificially imported int... read more
Introduction We reproduce below the fifth Socialist Party Members’ Bulletin on “The Causes of Capitalist Crisis”, although in reality this document contains very little regarding capitalist crisis, as it’s 17 pages are dedicated to a highly distor... read more
Introduction This article was prompted by Geoff Jones’ comments to our initial document “What Is the Cause of the Current Capitalist Crisis?”. This article is concerned with specifically answering the following points (highlighted in bold) from Comr... read more