Publications

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets

In 1919, inspired by revolution in Russia, British workers struck more than ever. Yet communists in Britain were not united. Labour's Parliamentary representation was weak. Similar struggles worldwide were, in the end, crushed. This short book considers workers' revolution, consequences of settling for less, and the missing link: revolutionary organisation.

Cliff on Substitutionism

Twenty years ago Trotsky was assassinated. The best tribute one can pay to this great revolutionary, who so despised all cant, would be a critical study of some of his ideas. We offer the following study of one problem he so brilliantly posed as a very young man, a problem that plagued him for the rest of his life, and that is still with us: the problem of the relation between party and class, and the danger of the former substituting for the latter. Quite early in his political activity, when only 24 years old, Trotsky prophesied that Lenin’s conception of party organisation must lead to a...

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