Most cited

The articles from The Next Step and Living Marxism that other people have cited most: scholars, journalists, courts and encyclopedias. Some are cited for what the RCP argued, and some because what it argued became notorious.

There are no citation counts for single articles in either paper: neither is indexed by Google Scholar, Crossref or JSTOR. The lists were compiled in October 2026 from the scholarly works, Wikipedia articles and press that cite them, and are ranked by the weight of that evidence, strongest first. Citations of the RCP's pamphlets and books are not counted, with one exception, marked. Where an issue is not held here, the entry has no link.

The Next Step · Living Marxism

The Next Step, 1979–1993

• 1. Which side are you on?unsigned · The Next Step no. 10, February 1981The paper's statement of 'unconditional support' for the Irish republican movement.Cited by: Jack Hepworth, 'Preparing for Power' (2023), chapter 1, where it supplies the epigraph; Hepworth in Contemporary British History (2022). · Sources: Hepworth 2023, ch. 1, Hepworth 2022
• 2. The Irish republican movement: why we give unconditional supportMike Freeman · The Next Step no. 10, February 1981The theoretical case for the same position.Cited by: Hepworth (2023), and the 2022 article via the same issue. · Sources: Hepworth 2023, ch. 1
• 3. Editorial on the Brighton bombingunsigned · The Next Step no. 53, November 1984'We support unconditionally the right of the Irish people to carry out their struggle for national liberation in whatever way they choose': the most quoted sentence the RCP printed on Ireland.Cited by: Adam LeBor in The Critic (2020); Wikipedia, Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978). · Sources: Wikipedia: RCP
• 4. Comment on Enniskillen, and the next week's editorialMick Hume; unsigned · The Next Step, 13 and 20 November 1987 (not held here)The RCP holding to its line after the Enniskillen bombing.Cited by: Hepworth (2022), p. 608; Wikipedia, Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978). · Sources: Hepworth 2022, Wikipedia: RCP
• 5. Assessment of the Red Front election resultFrank Richards · The Next Step no. 22, 12 June 1987 (not held here)The RCP's own verdict on its 1987 Red Front campaign: 'At present The Red Front has no real existence'.Cited by: Evan Smith, Contemporary British History (2022/23), and his 2017 blog version. · Sources: Smith 2017, Smith 2022
• 6. Open letter from the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist PartyFrank Richards · The Next Step no. 3, 23 January 1987The RCP's appeal to the left that opened the Red Front.Cited by: Evan Smith, Contemporary British History (2022/23). · Sources: Smith 2017
• 7. We can't win with Kinnockunsigned · The Next Step, early February 1987 (cited by Smith; the title is not found in the issues held, but the Red Front platform is in no. 4, 30 January 1987, pp. 6–7)Cited as the first public announcement of the Red Front.Cited by: Evan Smith (2017; 2022/23). · Sources: Smith 2017
• 8. The RCP hits the pitsunsigned · The Next Step no. 46, April 1984Contemporary evidence of the RCP's turn to the miners' strike, and the SWP's reply to it.Cited by: Alex Callinicos, Socialist Review, May 1984. · Sources: Callinicos 1984
• 9. The problem of political leadershipunsigned · The Next Step, 3 June 1988 (not held here)The 'overwhelmingly defensive mood' thesis behind the party's change of course in 1988.Cited by: Wikipedia, Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978). · Sources: Wikipedia: RCP
• 10. The RCP and the Irish struggle (1986), reprinted with an editorialunsigned · The Next Step, 20 November 1992 (not held here)The RCP turning critical of Sinn Féin's peace strategy.Cited by: Hepworth (2023), note 156; Hepworth (2022), p. 609. · Sources: Hepworth 2022
• 11. The response to Warringtonunsigned · The Next Step no. 11, 2 April 1993Read as the RCP stepping back from its anti-imperialism over Ireland.Cited by: Hepworth (2023), note 159; Hepworth (2022). · Sources: Hepworth 2023, ch. 1

Living Marxism and LM, 1988–2000

• 1. The picture that fooled the worldThomas Deichmann · LM no. 97, February 1997 (not held here)Its claim that ITN's 1992 pictures of Trnopolje camp misled the world.Cited by: The subject of ITN v LM, the libel case ITN won in March 2000, which closed the magazine. Analysed in David Campbell's two articles on the case (Journal of Human Rights, 2002); discussed in Karčić, Torture, Humiliate, Kill (2022); cited on Wikipedia's Trnopolje, Fikret Alić, Penny Marshall and Bosnian genocide denial pages. · Sources: Campbell 2002 (I), Campbell 2002 (II), Wikipedia: Thomas Deichmann
• 2. Massacring the truth in RwandaFiona Foster · Living Marxism no. 85, December 1995The standard example of Rwanda genocide denial in the British press. Fiona Foster was the pen name of Fiona Fox.Cited by: Helen Hintjens, 'Explaining the 1994 genocide in Rwanda', Journal of Modern African Studies (1999); Hintjens and van Oijen (2019); Chris McGreal, Guardian, 20 March 2000; Linda Melvern, Intent to Deceive (2020); Wikipedia (Living Marxism, Fiona Fox, Genocide denial). · Sources: Hintjens 1999, Wikipedia: Fiona Fox
• 3. Whose War Is It Anyway? The dangers of the journalism of attachmentMick Hume · LM Special pamphlet, 1997The leading critique of the journalism of attachment. A pamphlet, not a magazine article.Cited by: About two dozen scholarly works, among them David Chandler in Human Rights Quarterly (2001) and Greg McLaughlin, The War Correspondent (2016): a standard reference in the debate on Martin Bell's 'journalism of attachment'. · Sources: Chandler 2001, McLaughlin 2016
• 4. A plague of moral panicsFrank Füredi · Living Marxism no. 73, November 1994An early statement of the thesis Füredi developed in Culture of Fear (1997).Cited by: Cited in sociology of moral panic and risk: Zielińska (2004), Chigona et al. (2009), Roguski and Tauri (2012), Tufan (2018); in A-level sociology teaching as 'Furedi 1994'. · Sources: Roguski and Tauri 2012, Tufan 2018
• 5. What's in a 'mass grave'?Linda Ryan · Living Marxism no. 88, early 1996 (not held here; sources differ on the month)Cited as Srebrenica denial.Cited by: Footnoted in Campbell's study of ITN v LM; Wikipedia, Genocide denial. · Sources: Wikipedia: Genocide denial
• 6. Rwanda: the great genocide debateHelen Searls and Barry Crawford, as credited in LM no. 96 · Living Marxism no. 88, early 1996 (not held here)The magazine's second Rwanda denial piece.Cited by: Hintjens (1999), who credits it to Fiona Foster; LM's own later references name Searls and Crawford. · Sources: Hintjens 1999
• 7. Why shouldn't women abort disabled fetuses?Ann Bradley · Living Marxism no. 82, September 1995 (not held here)Quoted by Singer in the debate on selective abortion and disability.Cited by: Peter Singer, 'Shopping at the genetic supermarket' (Spanish version in Isegoría, 2002). · Sources: Singer 2002
• 8. Midnight in the centuryFrank Richards · Living Marxism no. 26, December 1990 (not held here)The RCP's statement that the working class had ceased to exist as a political force. Frank Richards was Frank Füredi's pen name.Cited by: Wikipedia, Frank Furedi; Füredi's own retrospective, 'Revisiting Midnight in the Century' (spiked, 2012); histories of the RCP. · Sources: Wikipedia: Frank Furedi, spiked 2012
• 9. You never know when it is going to explodeC.L.R. James, interviewed by John Fitzpatrick · Living Marxism no. 6, April 1989Probably James's last interview before his death in May 1989.Cited by: Marxists Internet Archive; Wikipedia, Brixton; Schneider in tripleC (2022). · Sources: MIA copy
• 10. Bosnia: a mess made in the WestJoan Phillips · Living Marxism no. 56, June 1993LM's line on Bosnia before the Deichmann article.Cited by: Jamie Carrick, PhD thesis on the British left and Yugoslavia (Leeds, 2025). · Sources: Carrick 2025
• 11. Hiroshima: the White Man's BombMick Hume · Living Marxism no. 81, July/August 1995A fiftieth-anniversary piece; the evidence is thin.Cited by: Wikipedia, Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (external link to a 2005 version).
• 12. What's wrong with masculinity?Mick Hume · Living Marxism no. 90, May 1996Thin evidence: included to make up the list.Cited by: One doctoral thesis (Shepherd, Leeds, 1997). · Sources: Shepherd 1997

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