socialists
What is behind the label? A plea for clearness - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the necessity of looking beyond such labels as 'anarchist', 'socialist' and 'communist', and engaging with the actual content of their ideas.
Men and women call themselves Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Individualists, thinking they thus explain their views to themselves and others. Yet question them, but a little; you will discover how few of them have any clear conception of what they mean by their labels.
Xuhat, Ngo Van, 1913-2005
A short biography of Vietnamese libertarian socialist and metal worker Ngo Van Xuhat.
Ngo Van Xuhat Born 1913, Vietnam, died 2005, France
Ngo Van Xuhat , author of The Saigon Commune, started his political career as a Trotskyist but by the end of his life had developed libertarian analyses.
Hardie, Keir: The Forgotten Keir Hardie - Sylvia Pankhurst
This article by Sylvia Pankhurst, written in 1921 is a rejoinder to an appreciation by long-standing British Marxist and early member of the Communist Party, John B Askew. Sylvia argues that Hardie was always a class struggle politician and more influenced by Marx than many would have credited. Certainly her view is supported by a recent biography by Fred Reid (Keir Hardie: the Making of a Socialist) who shows that Hardie's early battles as an organiser for the Scottish miners convinced him of the centrality of class struggle and made him receptive to Marxist ideas.
