The proletariat has to take up the struggle against religious fanaticism which reinforces the state and increases divisions within the exploited - Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti kapitálu
The text against religious "fideism" which forms the body of this leaflet was mostly written before the Charlie Hebdo/Kosher Supermarket attacks and was not intended as a response to these events. But then events forced our hand! Some of the text proved very prescient, particularly the comments about anti-Semitism. Some comrades distibuted this leaflet at the massive "Je suis Charlie" demo. It was possibly the only "political" tract handed out there.
Charlie Hebdo
Submitted by Phil on Jan 9 2015 18:25
Earlier this week, gunmen attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered several of its cartoonists. Some thoughts on the various issues that have arisen out of this event.
Sects and sectarianism - Scott Jay
Religious and revolutionary sects have much more in common with each other than they would generally prefer to admit. Their ideas may be completely different, but their obsession with ideas produces organizations with the same behaviors.
Communalism: from its origins to the 20th century - Kenneth Rexroth
Submitted by Ross Arctor on Oct 3 2014 14:59
Kenneth Rexroth's history of radical and religious communes. Available in text and as a PDF.
The unJewish state: the politics of Jewish identity in Israel - Akiva Orr
Akiva Orr looks at the failure of Israel's founders to provide a source for modern Jewish identity via a secular Jewish state, providing an original analysis of the arguments around the construction of Israeli and Jewish identities using source material from government debates translated for the first time.
Footnote to the debate on Jewish racism - Moshe Machover
Moshe Machover intervenes briefly into the debate between Israel Shahak and Roberto Sussman on Jewish racism.
Reply to Israel Shahak - Roberto Sussman
A Marxist critique of Israel Shahak's The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews.
The rise of Islam: What did happen to women? - Azar Tabari
Iranian feminist Azar Tabari subjects to critical examination the widespread view that the rise of Islam improved the lot of Middle-Eastern women compared with their situation in pre-Islamic Arabia.
The Lebanese communities and their little wars - Magida Salman
Analysis by Lebanese activist Magida Salman on the political psychology of the different warring sects within Lebanon, and how, even before the Israeli invasion, the country's body politic had disintegrated massively, with distinctions between left and right being drowned in the blood of sectarian killings.
The essence of christianity - Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach's classic criticism of religion as an outward projection of humankind's own inner qualities.
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