Lest We Forget: Workers Stopped Capitalism’s First World War
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 7 2018 11:33
The 100th anniversary of the Armistice, which we are told put a stop to the first world war, happens to coincide with remembrance Sunday, or Poppy Day. So we’re in for a treat. On top of poppy-wearing – now almost de rigueur – and two minute silences in the most improbable places, there are some smashing events in store. While local volunteers polish up war memorials, craft red poppy memorabilia, there are all sorts of state-sponsored celebrations, to mark the 11th hour of the eleventh day, in November 1918 when “the guns fell silent”.
Radek on the “Defeat” of Brest-Litovsk
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 31 2018 14:52
With this translation we begin the second volume of our series of translations from the review Kommunist, using the French version published by the Collectif d’édition smolny (www.collectif-smolny.org). As many will know the review Kommunist was the brainchild of the “proletarian communists”, or “left communists” as Lenin dubbed them, inside the Bolshevik Party in the spring of 1918. The original issue around which they were formed was opposition to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918) but as readers of our earlier translations will know they also highlighted their disquiet with certain developments inside Russia.
Soziale Befreiung - Writings on the Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
Submitted by Blesk on Oct 2 2018 14:49
Soziale Befreiung
Für die revolutionäre Selbstaufhebung des Proletariats!
For the revolutionary self-abolition of the proletariat!
Schriften zur russischen Revolution (1917-1921)
Writings on the Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
Two Articles from Kommunist (April 1918)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 1 2018 16:21
With the publication of these two articles we are completing our translation of the first issue of Kommunist, the journal of the “proletarian communists” or left communist faction of the Bolshevik Party in the Spring of 1918. We have already published articles by Radek, Bukharin and Ossinsky in our last three issues and all can be found on our website. Here we turn our attention to a final review by Bukharin, and an economic analysis of the state of the Russian Revolution in April 1918 by one of the least well-known of the Kommunist contributors.
The Bolsheviks come to power - Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.
Anarchy #02
Second issue from the Second Series of Anarchy, published in March 1971 and focusses on the Kronstadt Revolt, Russian Anarchism and the Bolsheviks.
Socialism from Below: A History of Anarchism
A short history of Anarchism both as a philosophy and as a movement, written during World War II.
Bogatsky, Genrikh Markovich (1889-after 1923?} aka Heinrich Bogatzki
Submitted by Battlescarred on Apr 23 2018 10:35
A short biography of Russian anarchist Genrikh Bogatsky
Down with the Death Penalty - Julius Martov
Julius Martov's denunciations of Bolsheviks use of capital punishment in contrast to their earlier campaigns against the death penalty when they were in opposition.
Ettore Cinnella - The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918.
Submitted by Red Marriott on Apr 12 2018 21:07
The unpublished minutes of the three congresses held by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (PLSR) in 1918 are the main source of this article. Its starting point is the crisis the old Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) suffered during the fall of 1917 and the rise of the Left SRs.
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