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
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
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
Below we publish Geoff Jones’ comments on our initial document “What is the cause of the current capitalist crisis“. We will publish our reply to Comrade Jones in a follow-up post. Comments on ‘Causes of Capitalist Crisis’ (11 comrad... read more
We believe the EC has revised the Marxist theory of value through its de facto rejection of The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (LTRPF) in relation to capitalist crisis. The main argument in favour of the LTRPF has already been made in t... read more
Marx’s explanation of the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall has been all but ignored as the underlying cause of this crisis, and indeed all post-war crises, by Lynn Walsh and the Socialist Party EC. It has been side-lined, like a fif... read more
In the interests of an objective assessment of the opposing positions, we have reproduced the Socialist Party EC’s reply to our first document, “What is the cause of the current capitalist crisis?”. Our reply to this document is “I... read more