Capitalism will only be abolished by the conscious act of the working class – the overwhelming majority of the world’s population. It won’t be achieved by small groups or parties, or by prominent individuals. It requires the majority working class collectively to understand the need for the present system to Continue Reading
Communism
To eradicate the symptoms we must eradicate the disease.
There’s a lot of debate going on in the various YourParty groups and on social media about whether YourParty should be overtly socialist or not. This is a very good and very important discussion for all of us to engage in. What is socialism? What do we all mean by Continue Reading
Fight for communist/socialist ideas in YourParty
This is an edited version of the introductory talk that Stephen Owen gave at the Talking About Socialism Zoom discussion on Monday 11 August 2025. The title of the meeting was ‘How can we make YourParty democratic and socialist?’ Barry Biddulph gave a second introduction to that meeting. A summary Continue Reading
Your Party. What will it be? What can we make it?
On 24 July 2025, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launched their website for a new party with the working title of ‘Your Party’. The call from the left-wing former leader of the Labour Party and suspended Labour MP – now resigned from the Labour Party – Zarah Sultana is clearly aimed Continue Reading
Communist fusion or communist network?
The Forging Communist Unity (FCU) fusion process, inclusive of specific meetings between one or two individuals leading/representing different organisations and, more collectively, those get-togethers that have filtered out into online discussions (principally through whymarx.com ), has for me revealed differences that defy attempts to fuse. These differences, no doubt, arise Continue Reading
The Middle Class?
During the Forging Communist Unity (FCU) talks, one view expressed was that once workers have taken power, the pathway from declining capitalism to communism would be prolonged due to middle-class groups in occupations at the margins of socialisation who will need to be convinced that communism is worth giving up Continue Reading
Why Communist Unity?
By now, many people across the Marxist left know about the Forging Communist Unity (FCU) process, which involves the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), the Unity Faction of the Editorial Board of the Prometheus online journal (PUF) and Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view (TAS). However, as Continue Reading
Two years of TAS
It’s almost two years since we started our fortnightly Zoom discussions under the title “Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view”. Our first meeting was on 20 March 2023. The TAS website carried its first article on 29 August 2022. Our aim was to develop an ongoing discussion about socialism Continue Reading
Why a new Corbynite party is not the answer – with or without Corbyn.
While small groups of communists are seeking ways to forge greater unity and create the basis for a new, mass, democratic communist party, an array of former Labour Party prominent left-wing figures & activists are looking to create a new leftish, reformist, social democratic party in the image of Jeremy Continue Reading
A Communist position on the Middle East colonial conflict
This article is based on the talk that Moshé Machover gave to a Zoom meeting organised by Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view on 25 November 2024, addressing the question: What is a communist position for resolving the colonial conflict in the Middle East? You can watch the Continue Reading