Revolutionary Party
Why we need a Revolutionary Party
Mon, 04/09/2006 - 16:44This article is available in Chinese
In February 1917 the workers, soldiers, sailors and peasants of Russia revolted against the slaughter of the First World War and the tyrannical regime of Tsar Nicholas II. The workers, soldiers and sailors in the main cities organised themselves, spontaneously, in workers’ councils (soviets). Read more...
Sverdlov: 'The best type of Bolshevik'
Simon Hardy Wed, 20/01/2010 - 17:05Simon Hardy looks at the life of Yakov Sverdlov, a key Bolshevik leader during the Russian revolution Read more...
The method and principles of communist organisation
Wed, 20/05/2009 - 17:31This document aims to summarise Leninist-Trotskyist thinking on certain critical questions of communist organisation. Read more...
How the Bolsheviks won leadership of the masses
Tue, 11/09/2007 - 16:49The Russian workers, particularly those in Petrograd, had suffered a very real setback after the mass street demonstrations of the July Days (3-4 July according to the Julian calendar). Although the Bolsheviks had opposed any attempt to seize power as premature, given the balance of class forces across Russia, they had demonstrated at the head of the armed masses. Now as the demonstrators dispersed, recovering from its fright, the Provisional Government went onto the offensive. The bourgeois press accused the Bolsheviks of leading a failed putsch, slandered their leaders, like Lenin and Zinoviev, as “German agents” attempting to sabotage the Russian military offensive then underway. Read more...
Parliament: Bolsheviks in the Duma
Mon, 09/07/2007 - 19:13How should revolutionary socialists act in parliament? Should we risk legitimising powerless legislative bodies? And how do we stop the workers’ MPs from being corrupted in the bosses’ parliaments? These were some of the problems faced by the Bolsheviks before the First World War. Read more...
100 years on: the relevance of permanent revolution
Fri, 15/06/2007 - 17:00Luke Cooper reviews 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects, edited by Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice, published by Pluto Press, 2006 Read more...
Why we need a Fifth International
Mon, 04/09/2006 - 13:05Vast mobilisations against international financial institutions, continental counter-summits, Social Forums of scores of thousands, cross-border actions and joint days of action - all these have changed the shape of the class struggle. Read more...
The revolutionary programme
Wed, 04/11/1998 - 23:00What is the revolutionary programme and why is it important? Because it is the key to building a revolutionary party and waging a successful struggle against capitalism, argues Mark Harrison Read more...
The Leninist Party and Democratic Centralism
Dave Stockton Fri, 30/01/1998 - 11:59“The party is not an arena for the assertion of free individuality, but an instrument of the proletarian revolution”.
Trotsky’s words from 1939 form the background against which Lenin himself approached the question of democracy in the revolutionary party.
As Dave Stockton explains, Lenin’s views on the balance between centralism and democracy in the party were forged concretely in the struggle for a revolutionary programme in the fight against Russian Tsarism Read more...
Building the Party - A parody of Leninism
Fri, 05/03/1993 - 17:59One stick that SWP members repeatedly beat the rest of the left with is that they alone are "building the party". Every week in Socialist Worker a column records the week’s new recruits and urges more to join the revolutionary party. Read more...
The current programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2011 
