Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People's Republic of China
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 7 2019 12:33
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Class Struggle in China
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 6 2019 13:26
The role of China in the imperialist pecking order has been covered many times on our website (leftcom.org). Here we deal with China’s evolution from a largely agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse which has also created the world’s largest working class – and what comes with that is, of course, simmering class conflict.
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic - Maurice Meisner
Fantastic in-depth critical history of the failure of China's 'transition to socialism', analysing the degree to which it lived up to its egalitarian rhetoric as it navigated the uneasy relationships between democracy and bureaucracy, socialism and capitalism.
Workers of all Identities, Unite!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 27 2018 12:42
For the past few years, but particularly in the aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential election, the theme of identity politics has dominated political discourse on both the left and the right. Countless books, articles, blogs and comments have been written on the subject, but we ourselves have dealt with it only in passing.
Putting it all on Red - The Michael Laski Story
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jul 14 2018 02:47
A tale of gambling, violence and betrayal in 60s America. Starring a romantic rebel hounded by his inner demons.
Beyond waving the red flag: towards a political critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Revolutionary Student Movement - Gary Kinsman and J. Charbonneau
Critique of a Canadian neo-Maoist organization and its student front.
Review: ‘Revolution in the Air’ by Max Elbaum - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner reviews Max Elbaum's 'Revolution in the Air', and in the process critically examines Maoist and Third Worldist politics.
Militancy: highest stage of alienation - Part 2
Published in France 2 years after part 1, part 2 puts part 1 in into the political context it was published in and expands on its themes.
In Defense of Anarchism, In Defense of Anti-Autoritarianism by Ron Tabor, July 28, 1996
A wide-ranging debate within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation was sparked by Ron Tabor's July 1996 response to another member Chris Day's polemic "The Historical Failure of Anarchism" (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-day-the-historical-failure-of-anarchism). Tabor, who had been a leader in the Revolutionary Socialist League, also wrote a critique of Lenin and the Bolsheviks "A Look at Leninism". Love and Rage did not survive the fissure and Day's faction soon left the anarchist movement.
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