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deportation of Norwegian Jews view thread - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 26, 2014, 8:31 AM

The Lack of Anti-Imperialism in the old CPGB view thread - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 22, 2014, 11:25 PM

Re: The Lack of Anti-Imperialism in the old CPGB - Bill Davidson on Nov 23, 2014, 9:29 AM

Re - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 23, 2014, 2:20 PM

Re: Re - Bill Davidson on Nov 25, 2014, 10:04 AM

Re: Re - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 25, 2014, 6:16 PM

Re: Re - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 25, 2014, 9:43 PM

Re: Re - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 25, 2014, 11:54 PM

Communist Manifesto - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 26, 2014, 8:10 AM

not true - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 23, 2014, 10:30 AM

some headlines - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 23, 2014, 11:40 AM

yes but.... - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 23, 2014, 8:07 PM

So... - Francis King on Nov 23, 2014, 9:52 PM

Re: So... - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 24, 2014, 8:30 PM

moving the goalpost - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 24, 2014, 6:59 AM

moaners - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 24, 2014, 10:36 AM

Re: Moaners - Cuban Pete on Nov 24, 2014, 6:38 PM

cpgb had proud anti-imperialist record - paul fauvet on Nov 24, 2014, 10:11 PM

Re: cpgb had proud anti-imperialist record - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 24, 2014, 11:16 PM

help me on this - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 25, 2014, 5:49 AM

Re: help me on this - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 25, 2014, 6:16 PM

Re: help me on this - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 25, 2014, 9:53 PM

Re: moaners - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 24, 2014, 11:06 PM

Re: moaners - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 25, 2014, 9:54 PM

Freudian slip - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 26, 2014, 7:47 AM

Re: moving the goalpost - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 24, 2014, 9:01 PM

brn displays his ignorance of africa - paul fauvet on Nov 25, 2014, 2:27 PM

Ignorance - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 25, 2014, 9:41 PM

Ignorance? - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 25, 2014, 11:52 PM

CPB Congress view thread - Gordon Allen on Nov 17, 2014, 12:26 PM

Re: CPB Congress - Cornelius Honeydew on Nov 17, 2014, 7:19 PM

Young guns? - E. Tapscott on Nov 18, 2014, 12:13 AM

CPB reformism - Perry Striker on Nov 23, 2014, 6:34 PM

Haha! - NewCommie on Nov 23, 2014, 9:58 PM

CPB reformism and stagnation - Perry Striker on Nov 24, 2014, 9:00 PM

query - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 25, 2014, 5:51 AM

Congress Truth? - Gabriel Peri on Nov 25, 2014, 9:56 AM

Good point - NewCommie on Nov 25, 2014, 11:53 AM

"Perry" must be even more delusional than any suspected - Janet Brunefune on Nov 26, 2014, 3:08 AM

Collapse of the left in Germany view thread - Cuban Pete on Nov 14, 2014, 11:35 AM

Re: Collapse of the left in Germany - Louis Althusser on Nov 15, 2014, 10:19 AM

..and the collapse of the left in Britain. - Cuban Pete on Nov 18, 2014, 11:24 AM

"Unrechtsstaat" ? - Cuban Pete on Nov 21, 2014, 10:40 AM

compromises - Francis King on Nov 21, 2014, 11:59 AM

Re: compromises - Act of Defiance on Nov 21, 2014, 2:36 PM

Re: compromises - Cuban Pete on Nov 21, 2014, 2:51 PM

Re: compromises - Louis Althusser on Nov 21, 2014, 7:47 PM

Re:re:compromises - Kim Philby on Nov 21, 2014, 10:34 PM

the Broad Front is broad, the Left Party is a left party - Gadfly on Nov 23, 2014, 1:44 PM

Goose and gander - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 21, 2014, 12:48 PM

The Baptistry of Siloam - Cuban Pete on Nov 21, 2014, 3:11 PM

The Greeks had a word for it ... - Kim Philby on Nov 21, 2014, 6:15 PM

Dissolution of Comintern: bourgeois and revolutionary perspectives view thread - Cuban Pete on Nov 7, 2014, 9:40 PM

Re: Dissolution of Comintern: bourgeois and revolutionary perspectives - White Man in the hammersmith Palais on Nov 9, 2014, 3:59 PM

Bordigist Current - Cuban Pete on Nov 10, 2014, 6:36 AM

Followers of Bordiga in Britain and Ireland? - Cuban Pete on Nov 23, 2014, 11:00 AM

Operation Solo. view thread - White Man in the Hammersmith Palais on Nov 18, 2014, 2:15 PM

Who was the British Jack and Morris Childs ? - Len Deighton on Nov 18, 2014, 7:27 PM

Spooks in the CPGB... - Guy Burgess on Nov 19, 2014, 1:17 PM

Studying the Commune view thread - Cuban Pete on Nov 18, 2014, 12:15 PM

Today in Trondheim, Norway view thread - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 17, 2014, 9:31 PM

link - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 18, 2014, 8:31 AM

co-optation in Scandinavia - Francis King on Nov 18, 2014, 10:29 AM

Rough Translation - Cuban Pete on Nov 18, 2014, 10:37 AM

Lewis Jones Remembered view thread - Cuban Pete on Nov 17, 2014, 1:22 PM

RIP Vic Allen view thread - Mediaman on Nov 13, 2014, 9:51 AM

Vic Allen -- Telegraph obit - Mediaman on Nov 14, 2014, 11:05 PM

German Trade Unionists discuss the crisis in Europe view thread - Cuban Pete on Oct 9, 2014, 2:13 PM

The simple answer is no - Pik Smeet on Oct 10, 2014, 9:55 AM

1904 and all that - Gabriel Peri on Oct 10, 2014, 5:05 PM

Globalisation and the Nation State: Against Hardt and Negri - Cuban Pete on Nov 12, 2014, 9:42 AM

The Wall view thread - Act of Defiance on Nov 7, 2014, 8:40 AM

Borders haven't gone away - Gadfly on Nov 7, 2014, 6:14 PM

The One Wall the Americans don't want torn down - True Friend of the DPRK on Nov 10, 2014, 7:52 PM

Africa and the Comintern view thread - Cuban Pete on Nov 7, 2014, 8:08 AM

The Comintern and Africa - Guy Burgess on Nov 7, 2014, 10:18 AM

The Comintern and Africa - Evan on Nov 7, 2014, 1:07 PM

Re\; Comintern and Africa - Cuban Pete on Nov 7, 2014, 1:10 PM

Re: Re\; Comintern and Africa - Act of Defiance on Nov 7, 2014, 4:02 PM

Not unreasonably... - Francis King on Nov 7, 2014, 1:16 PM

Fair dos Francis... - Guy Burgess on Nov 7, 2014, 2:10 PM

A day to remember! view thread - Act of Defiance on Nov 7, 2014, 3:32 PM

holy trinity view thread - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 6, 2014, 8:21 AM

No questions were tricky... - Pik Smeet on Nov 6, 2014, 9:19 AM

One for God (or maybe the holy ghost) - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 6, 2014, 12:26 PM

Re: No questions were tricky... - White man in the Hammersmith Palais on Nov 6, 2014, 7:40 PM

Holy Ghost - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 7, 2014, 12:26 AM

hissss - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 7, 2014, 10:44 AM

What do you think of the show so far? - Kermit on Nov 7, 2014, 1:15 PM

Untitled view thread - White man in the Hammnersmith Palais on Oct 26, 2014, 4:28 PM

Why didn't they expel Hobsbawm - British Road to Nowhere on Oct 26, 2014, 11:16 PM

traitors - paul fauvet on Oct 27, 2014, 11:08 AM

rules - Francis King on Oct 27, 2014, 12:34 PM

Rules and rules... - Guy Burgess on Oct 27, 2014, 1:17 PM

trends and factions - Francis King on Oct 27, 2014, 2:23 PM

faction figures - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 27, 2014, 2:46 PM

Eric Hobsbawm - Cuban Pete on Oct 29, 2014, 10:20 AM

Re: Eric Hobsbawm - British Road to Nowhere on Oct 30, 2014, 8:53 AM

Red Queen - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 30, 2014, 10:37 AM

Okay then - British Road to Nowhere on Oct 30, 2014, 10:36 PM

Pantheon - Cuban Pete on Oct 31, 2014, 12:49 AM

Party pieces - Gabriel Peri on Oct 31, 2014, 1:24 AM

Palme Dutt - Francis King on Oct 31, 2014, 1:59 PM

well . . . - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 2, 2014, 3:29 AM

p.s. - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 2, 2014, 9:43 AM

Dutt etc. - Francis King on Nov 2, 2014, 11:26 AM

an expulsion - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 3, 2014, 12:53 PM

Heffer - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 3, 2014, 6:01 PM

1948 - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 4, 2014, 8:05 AM

correct book title - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 2, 2014, 11:51 AM

Turn around coachman, drive on! - Cuban Pete on Nov 2, 2014, 11:14 AM

Palme Dutt, LM and the Soviet pension - Kim Philby on Nov 2, 2014, 11:17 AM

Dutt and Czechoslovakia - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 3, 2014, 3:41 PM

Party Pieces and Rajani Palme-Dutt - Kim Philby on Oct 31, 2014, 2:59 PM

smaller but better - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 31, 2014, 7:23 AM

The Case against Pollitt? - Cuban Pete on Nov 2, 2014, 11:58 AM

well like this - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 2, 2014, 7:45 PM

Re: well like this - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 3, 2014, 6:04 PM

It's That Man Again - Gabriel Peri on Nov 4, 2014, 12:45 AM

the line and the diversionists - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 4, 2014, 8:42 AM

Re: the line and the diversionists - Act of Defiance on Nov 4, 2014, 1:20 PM

my brain hurts - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 4, 2014, 3:18 PM

Re: It's That Man Again - British Road to Nowhere on Nov 4, 2014, 10:45 PM

Nowhere Man - Gabriel Peri on Nov 5, 2014, 12:45 AM

Post war tensions in (and between) CPGB and CPA - Cuban Pete on Nov 5, 2014, 10:10 AM

Programme meant for a long period of time - Act of Defiance on Nov 5, 2014, 7:28 PM

PDs - Gabriel Peri on Nov 6, 2014, 2:59 AM

PDs - China - Cuban Pete on Nov 6, 2014, 2:21 PM

Evidence? - Cuban Pete on Oct 30, 2014, 11:29 PM

The Contentious Case of Wili Munzenberg view thread - Cuban Pete on Oct 27, 2014, 12:14 AM

Re: The Contentious Case of Wili Munzenberg - White man in The Hammersmith Palais on Nov 3, 2014, 4:21 PM

More on Our Wili - Cuban Pete on Nov 3, 2014, 11:33 PM

Re: More on Our Wili - White man in the Hammersmith Palais on Nov 5, 2014, 4:51 PM

Willi Munzenberg and the Comintern. - Cuban Pete on Nov 5, 2014, 8:02 PM

dismantling the welfare state view thread - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 11, 2014, 9:12 AM

This is the welfare state - Pik smeet on Oct 13, 2014, 10:25 AM

man or machine? - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 13, 2014, 4:38 PM

correction - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 13, 2014, 8:56 PM

The Tories and Liberals are against it? - Pik Smeet on Oct 15, 2014, 12:20 PM

everyone's out of step except our Darren - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 16, 2014, 8:45 AM

We are not here to talk about the SPGB - Pik Smeet on Oct 16, 2014, 10:33 AM

Re: We are not here to talk about the SPGB - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 16, 2014, 11:05 PM

Not in my name - Actually Existing Darren on Oct 16, 2014, 4:02 PM

Are you sure - Proper Gander on Oct 27, 2014, 7:03 PM

15 minutes of fame - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 27, 2014, 10:32 PM

I'm sure you're lying - Actually Existing Darren on Oct 29, 2014, 2:10 PM

Re: I'm sure you're lying - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 30, 2014, 12:22 AM

Infamy . . . infamy - Actually Existing Darren on Oct 30, 2014, 11:36 AM

coming out or staying in - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 30, 2014, 10:33 AM

Ockham's Razor - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 30, 2014, 7:08 PM

Gaitensdance - Proper Gander on Oct 30, 2014, 8:53 PM

Gaiten's Dance - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 30, 2014, 9:37 PM

Not Pik - Actually Existing Darren on Oct 31, 2014, 12:56 AM

This will get sorted - Actually Existing Darren on Oct 30, 2014, 9:41 PM

Re: This will get sorted - Proper Gander on Nov 1, 2014, 11:12 PM

Wriggle much? - Actually Existing Darren on Nov 2, 2014, 12:20 AM

PG Slips - Actually Existing Darren on Nov 2, 2014, 12:59 AM

snore - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 2, 2014, 9:47 AM

seconded - Francis King on Nov 2, 2014, 11:14 AM

Re: seconded - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 2, 2014, 6:33 PM

3 possibilities - Francis King on Oct 31, 2014, 2:01 AM

pikture - Jeremy Hawthorn on Nov 1, 2014, 10:32 AM

Who's coughing up? - Actually Existing Darren on Nov 1, 2014, 7:26 PM

Re: Who's coughing up? - Harsanyi_Janos on Nov 2, 2014, 2:59 AM

Re: everyone's out of step except our Darren - Lord Ngome on Oct 17, 2014, 1:29 PM

additional layers of futility - Francis King on Oct 13, 2014, 10:07 PM

Ornithology - Cuban Pete on Oct 14, 2014, 11:05 AM

Reforms or revolution? - Pik Smeet on Oct 15, 2014, 9:48 AM

Re: Reforms or revolution? - White man in the Hammersmith Palais on Oct 15, 2014, 11:18 AM

Even more confused... - Pik Smeet on Oct 15, 2014, 12:02 PM

welfare states - Francis King on Oct 15, 2014, 4:05 PM

Are you bothered? - Cuban Pete on Oct 15, 2014, 9:02 PM

random example - Francis King on Oct 16, 2014, 8:03 AM

Slightly rewritten to make more sense. - Pik Smeet on Oct 16, 2014, 11:17 AM

Silence - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 16, 2014, 11:06 PM

Re: Silence - Francis King on Oct 20, 2014, 10:00 PM

and? - Francis King on Oct 17, 2014, 12:08 AM

So come on then - Pik Smeet on Oct 21, 2014, 10:24 AM

one-way traffic - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 21, 2014, 4:13 PM

Re: one-way traffic - Francis King on Oct 21, 2014, 8:50 PM

Re: So come on then - Francis King on Oct 21, 2014, 9:17 PM

More editing. - Pik Smeet on Oct 16, 2014, 11:24 AM

Pik and mixed up - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 15, 2014, 2:38 PM

Socialism or welfare? - Pik Smeet on Oct 15, 2014, 4:44 PM

Pik ignorant - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 15, 2014, 6:30 PM

You can't argue with history - Pik Smeet on Oct 16, 2014, 9:17 AM

No misrepresentation here... - Pik Smeet on Oct 16, 2014, 10:29 AM

I hope pik never falls ill - paul fauvet on Oct 19, 2014, 7:40 PM

Advice - Reginald Bosanquet on Oct 16, 2014, 3:42 PM

now it can be trolled - Jeremy Hawthorn on Oct 16, 2014, 8:02 PM

Re: This is the welfare state - White man in the Hammersmith Palais on Oct 13, 2014, 7:09 PM

Re: This is the welfare state - Lord Ngome on Oct 14, 2014, 1:56 PM

The Small Party of Great Bores manage to be right on just one thing.... - British Road to Nowhere on Oct 22, 2014, 11:44 PM

Marxist Ornithology: Bird Lives ! Marx and Engels too. view thread - Cuban Pete on Oct 28, 2014, 12:01 AM

What's the point if your don't fly any more? - Jenny Blackburn on Oct 29, 2014, 3:36 AM

What would they be saying? - Cuban Pete on Oct 29, 2014, 10:29 AM

The old "Greats" words still stand -> time to join the fight - Jenny Blackburn on Oct 30, 2014, 3:55 AM

Theory and Practice - Cuban Pete on Oct 30, 2014, 1:47 PM

Re: Theory and Practice - Jenny Blackburn on Nov 1, 2014, 3:52 AM

The Weight of the Giants - Cuban Pete on Nov 1, 2014, 11:43 PM

Pure blood socialism view thread - Pik Smeet on Oct 21, 2014, 10:08 AM

Simple Answer - True Friend of the DPRK on Oct 22, 2014, 11:16 PM

Dogs - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 23, 2014, 12:32 AM

Nothing would make me happier.... - Jenny Blackburn on Oct 23, 2014, 2:37 AM

All you ever wanted to know about human rights in the DPRK but were afraid to ask...... - True Friend of the DPRK on Oct 23, 2014, 11:57 PM

Out of date - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 24, 2014, 6:17 PM

Celebrity "Defector " exposed as a fraud and a criminal - True Friend of the DPRK on Oct 24, 2014, 7:03 PM

Scumbag Shin the Video - True Friend of the DPRK on Oct 26, 2014, 3:56 PM

Re: Scumbag Shin the Video - Harsanyi_Janos on Oct 26, 2014, 11:12 PM

CPB Tigers..... - British Road to Nowhere on Oct 30, 2014, 8:49 AM

Re: Simple Answer - Gadfly on Oct 24, 2014, 10:49 PM

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