The first in-person meeting of the Forging Communist Unity process took place in London yesterday, Saturday 8 March 2025. There was a full day of serious and productive discussion which identified substantial political agreement on the fundamentals. This clearly bodes well for the process as a whole, even though it Continue Reading
Ed Potts
Update on Forging Communist Unity discussions
On Sunday 23 February Nick Wrack and Ed Potts of the TAS steering group attended the latest discussion in the Forging Communist Unity process. Representing their organisations at the discussion were Jack Conrad & Mike Macnair of the CPGB-PCC, and Cat Rylance & Sam Turner of the Prometheus unity faction. Continue Reading
Developing a suitable programme for communist unity
This is an article written by Ed Potts, to complement the agreed TAS submission to the Forging Communist Unity meeting on 23 February. It elaborates some arguments about the purpose, form and content of a programme, and then begins to explore some areas of apparent disagreement on the nature of Continue Reading
On the death of Alexei Navalny
With the media and press overwhelmingly owned by the ruling capitalist class in society rather than the working class who are the majority, the truth of international events and their significance is often obscured or hidden from us. The shocking detail of the drive towards the ethnic cleansing of Palestine Continue Reading
Why do we have a Labour Party instead of a socialist Party?
This article originally appeared in Prometheus. It was also used to facilitate a discussion in a meeting of Talking About Socialism on 12th June 2023 – watch the video here. What sort of an organisation is the Labour Party? Its dominance of the left in Britain for over a century Continue Reading
In whose interest?
Coming from one of the leading figures on the British left, a Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 – 2020, John McDonnell’s recent article “The Ukrainian Question for Socialists” requires comment: all the more so because it argues that it is an inescapable conclusion that socialists Continue Reading