Campaign for a Marxist Party
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The Campaign for a Marxist Party was a campaign (founded 4 November 2006) of several organisations on the British left
for a political party with explicitly Marxist goals as part of a rebuilt workers' international .
The Irish Socialist Democracy
group welcomed the CMP. Its seven-member executive mainly consisted of members of the CPGB (PCC) and the Democratic Socialist Alliance criticised the party for its "hijacking" of the campaign.
The campaign published Marxist Voice .
In November 2008 it was announced that the CPGB would move to wind up the campaign at its December AGM . Having done so, it claimed it will establish a new committee to promote "unity of Marxists as Marxists" .
British left
The biggest organisation on the British left is the Labour Party with over 100,000 members.The Communist Party of Great Britain had a peak membership of 56,000 in 1945...
for a political party with explicitly Marxist goals as part of a rebuilt workers' international .
Principles
The Campaign agreed three founding political principles agreed at the founding conference:- We are in favour of a planned, democratic socialist society and against the market.
- Socialism will be achieved in a single step when the working class seizes power over society, there are no intermediate “democratic” or other stages.
- The Campaign is against the destructive incubus of Stalinism and will seek to make clear the counter revolutionary and anti-human nature of the Stalinist regimes and Parties. Stalinism was responsible for mass slaughter, brutal incarceration and the atomisation of the people of the countries under its control. In addition the Stalinists were responsible for the most cynical and costly betrayals of the working class everywhere from Germany to South Africa – no Party which has as its aim the liberation of humanity can do other than condemn the Stalinist current and seek to undo the damage done to Marxism by it.
Members
Its members were listed as:- Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)
- Democratic Socialist AllianceDemocratic Socialist AllianceThe Democratic Socialist Alliance is a left-wing political organisation in the UK.The DSA name was adopted for public political work, in June 2005, by a group of members of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform who declared an intention to continue the SADP against what the DSA claims was a...
- CritiqueCritique (Journal of Socialist Theory)Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory is a Marxist academic journal published by the Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements . The journal was established in May 1973 by founding editor Hillel H...
The Irish Socialist Democracy
Socialist Democracy
Socialist Democracy can refer to any of several political parties. Groups using this name tend to have a connection to the reunified Fourth International, reflecting its distinctive position on socialist democracy :*Socialist Democracy...
group welcomed the CMP. Its seven-member executive mainly consisted of members of the CPGB (PCC) and the Democratic Socialist Alliance criticised the party for its "hijacking" of the campaign.
The campaign published Marxist Voice .
In November 2008 it was announced that the CPGB would move to wind up the campaign at its December AGM . Having done so, it claimed it will establish a new committee to promote "unity of Marxists as Marxists" .