Communist Tendency

Communist Platform statement on the candidacy of Steve Freeman

1. Steve Freeman has announced that he is a parliamentary candidates in Bermondsey and Old Southwark for the May 7 general election. He is standing as a Republican Socialist. He is therefore opposing Kingsley Abrams, a candidate jointly backed by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Left Unity. Politically this amounts to sabotage. 2. […] Read more »


Communist Platform’s seven questions for internal elections candidates

The seven questions we would like to put to the candidates are: Read more »


Our alternative to ‘safe spaces’: a short code of conduct

Preamble The general motivation for this counter-proposal has three elements. Read more »


Left Unity: code of conduct or a safe spaces nightmare?

How to vote at conference – Mike Macnair explains the Communist Platform’s recommendations for November 15-16 Read more »


Models and humanitarian myths

Is Die Linke ‘doing politics differently’? Ben Lewis gives his view that the German Left Party is plumbing ever greater opportunist depths. This article originally appeared in the Weekly Worker. Read more »


‘Speaking bitterness’ and Left Unity

The precursor of ‘safe spaces’ was unsuccessful and destructive in past movements of the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair Read more »


Plans for the hard left

Jack Conrad on the Communist Platform after Left Unity’s founding conference Read more »


Syriza: Looking to its right

Syriza has been held up as a party that should be emulated. Daniel Harvey examines the reality Read more »


Communist Platform statement of aims and principles for the [Left Unity] Party

  The [Left Unity] Party is a socialist party.  It seeks to bring about the end of capitalism and its replacement by the rule of the working class. Read more »



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