Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.
Like the SWP, Workers Power is disabled by bureaucratic centralism - the flip side of which is, of course, anarchism.
Existing CPGB comrades have also been given a very bad lesson in democratic centralism which promises further difficulties in the future.
That is why Devolution works, and excessive centralism does not.
Central to the struggle for this higher unity is the fight for genuine democratic centralism.
Yet behind these policies lies the same belief in state centralism.
The work of the League of Struggle was organized on principles of centralism and strict discipline.
Won't that be the most consistent democratic centralism and, moreover, proletarian centralism?
Meanwhile the union of so many distinct political organisms had reduced the party system to chaos, and the first two years were taken up by a process of regrouping, the dominant issue being Centralism versus Federalism.