Open Letter of Resignation
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] 4 March 1998 Arthur Scargill General Secretary, SLP Dear Arthur, This letter is the joint resignation of the undersigned comrades from the Socialist Labour...
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Party, Programme and Propaganda
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] Supporters of the Marxist Bulletin resigned from the Socialist Labour Party in early March. The response of the party and its membership to the December...
The Socialist Labour Party: From Opportunity to Obstacle
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] The following article, reprinted from What Next? No.7, 1998, is by Ian Dudley, one of the comrades who published the Marxist Bulletin inside the Socialist Labour Party. The December conference...
A Better Bourgeois Britain?
Republicanism and the National Question [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] The SLP Republicans advocate a federal republic of England, Scotland and Wales and a united Ireland. Supporters of the Marxist...
Black Liberation and the SLP Black Section
Race, Class and the Bloc Vote [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 6, February 1998] At the second SLP congress the SLP black section was ‘deleted’ by the bureaucratic and fraudulent use of...
Opportunity Squandered
Setback in the fight for a revolutionary workers’ party [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 6, February 1998] The Socialist Labour Party has been a contradictory and diverse formation ever since its beginnings....
Stalinism: Rising from the grave?
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] An edited version of a talk given by Christoph Lenk to a meeting of SLP members in November, organised by the Marxist Bulletin Stalinism...
Socialist News and China
The Stalinist School of Falsification [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Issue 8 of Socialist News contained an article by Don Hoskins about the hand over of Hong Kong to China, entitled...
What Price Compromise?
Italian ‘sister party’ has second thoughts about hacking down the Olive Tree [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] The Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista – RC), an organisation...
Should we be publishing this bulletin?
Free Speech and the Constitution [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Recently several members of the editorial collective of this publication received a letter from the General Secretary, Arthur Scargill,...