Anton Pannekoek 1938 http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/lenphl12.htm The publication first of a German, then of an English translation of Lenin’s work shows that it was meant to play a wider role than its function in the old Russian party conflict. It is presented now to the younger generation of socialists and communists in order to influence the...
For more than a century May has been the month of working people. May the first is Labor Day in most countries around the globe, and therefore most celebrations are held this month. The ‘May tradition’ comes from the U.S., but ironically it’s not really cherished there that much… http://rt.com/programs/spotlight/mayday-month-working-first/
“That is not about going back, which is impossible,” Patnaik said. “We have to go forward with new ideas.” The call for a more robust social safety net (protecting workers’ rights, unemployment insurance, social security, health insurance, etc.) isn’t new, but such policies can be a step towards new ideas, a transitional measure, he...
The socialist stage The struggle for socialism is a complex process with no fixed timetable. Periods of advance yield to periods of retreat and vice versa. Shifting alliances form and reform with each side struggling to turn provisional allies into stable ones. New political understandings that accent unity, equality, empowerment, and anti-capitalism compete with...
Defeating right-wing extremism is seen as simply the first stage of the fight. Webb warned of that stage’s critical nature. “If you don’t believe me,” he added, “take a look at Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio, where Republicans took control of the levers of power in 2010 and then ruthlessly rolled back rights, eliminated social...
“Marxism is one of the things people are reading now. I know of universities in the US where the students have formed Marxist Study Circles to understand capitalism,” Ali, who is based in London, told reporters here. Marx is “bestseller in Europe again because young people are talking about him”, said Ali, 68, who...
… They are firmly committed to what they call “the Cuban political project” or what “the other side” would call the Castro regime. There is an abundance of Cuban blogs these days on the internet, and in terms of the many ideological classifications into which they can be put, the Young Cuba blog is...
… The ultimate objective of the socialist revolution is a global classless society in which technology enables minimal human labour to produce goods and services, allowing these to be freely distributed to satisfy people’s rational needs. Socially owned, this system of production would free everyone from the compulsion to work for others. It would...
THE LAST issue this review will deal with is Adamovsky’s rejection of the working class as the central agent of revolutionary change. He argues instead that there are a “multiplicity” of revolutionary actors, and that no one form of resistance is more important than any other. The argument here is common to other similar...
Virtually none of my Western interlocutors – including many historians and political scientists – has ever answered correctly a seemingly simple political question: “How many political prisoners were there in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union?” Most Westerners I have asked suggested figures in the range of tens and even hundreds of thousands (we must keep in...
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