Marx, Excerpt from the Reichstag debate, 1878
English translation of an excerpt from the Reichstag debate.
Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 8 2018 21:45
One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie. It's time for an explainer.
Bim-Bom, Bang Bang! Chekists and Clowns
Submitted by Battlescarred on Mar 6 2018 18:27
A short account of the circus clown duo Bim-Bom and their encounter with the Cheka in revolutionary Russia.
North Korea: development of national capitalism
HERE IS THE WHOLE TEXT (not yet proofread).
All the quotations (Karl Marx, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Mao Zedong, Guy Sabatier...) are taken from "official" translations published on internet, except the second part of Sabatier's quote in note number 10 (still in Spanish).
Lenin orders the massacre of sex workers, 1918
Lenin's letter to G. F. Fyodorov ordering "mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers, former officers and the like." in Nizhni, where the Czech white forces were amassing. Kaganovich implemented the terror.
Migration and national social democracy in Britain
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jan 15 2018 11:04
We look at the recent history of migration to the UK and the current discussion about migration and wage decline, in particular within the nation state policies of Labour. We criticise the effort of trying to reconcile a largely liberal 'pro-migrant' position with Labour's national perspective and share our experiences of working and organising amongst migrant workers in west London.
Chomsky and Pol Pot's genocidal regime in Cambodia
Submitted by hedgehog on Oct 22 2017 19:49
Chomsky has repeatedly been criticised as an apologist for the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. Understandably, a common reaction on the left is to dismiss such criticism as nothing more than a right-wing smear. But it is often forgotten that one of Chomsky's earliest critics on this issue was himself a leftist, the Marxist academic, Steven Lukes.
For anyone who wants to get a handle on this complex controversy, here's a pdf of the relevant chapter from Chomsky's 1979 book, 'After the Cataclysm', followed by the subsequent debate in the 'Times Higher Education Supplement':
6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
Submitted by libcom on Oct 16 2017 12:24
It's a sad fact that many of the most radical Marxists, whose participation in working class struggle and ideas challenged not only capitalist society but also the social democratic and Leninist tendencies in the workers' movement tend to get ignored by anarchists and Marxists alike.
Paul Mason's workers' bombers
Submitted by Mike Harman on Oct 13 2017 22:26
Paul Mason's response to BAE job losses has been to promote a 'left-wing' brand of militarism, summing up many of the problems facing the UK left as it coalesces around the Labour Party, and the limits of this politics as it approaches the reality of state power.
Communist armed struggle in Belgium: An introduction to the CCC and their ideological ground
Submitted by donaldo on Oct 10 2017 22:35
The CCC were a Belgian communist armed struggle group that was active in the mid-eighties. They did not only place bombs but they also produced a lot of propaganda material, that intellectually fed their different campaigns and they kept writing and publishing during their imprisonment. Upon a few of these documents, this article aims at reflecting on how the group conceived itself and the use of armed struggle as part of a larger communist revolution.
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