Back to banality - G.M. Tamás
Article from G.M. Tamás on the continuities/differences between the 'actually-existing socialism' of the past and present-day reactionism in Eastern Europe.
East Germany, June 1953
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 16 2017 18:42
A short account of the East German working class mass strike and uprising in 1953, which was crushed by Russian tanks, written by Andy Blunden in 1993.
Venezuela: The dead-end of the "Bolivarian Road to Socialism"
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 15 2017 20:46
There was no revolution in Venezuela. Being against neo-liberalism is not the same as opposing capitalism but only one form of it. However, it does feed into the social democratic narrative of Corbynism. Today, in the middle of an election campaign, the assertion that “Venezuela is socialist” is happily repeated by right wing papers and politicians to gloat over the social disaster which Venezuela has become.
At the Turning Point: An Open Letter to my Chavista Friends
Submitted by Crossly on Jun 3 2017 19:26
The principle of enantiadromia says that culminating processes revert into their opposite like a yin-yang. This is a force that's certainly at work in Venezuela today as the Bolivarian Revolution, which promised deepening democracy becomes a dictatorship.
Esperanto en GDR
Historio de la Orientgermana E-Movado.
The never-ending Lukács debate - G.M. Tamás
On January 25th 2017, the Budapest City Council decided to remove the statue of Georg Lukács from a park in the city’s 13th district. Here, Hungarian marxist and philosopher G. M. Tamás comments on the significance of the gesture.
Minus
Here are several issues of the "Minus" magazine produced in Hong Kong in the late 1970s.
Revisiting Turkey: how Jack became an anarchist
Exiled Bulgarian anarchist Jack Grancharoff recounts how he became an anarchist.
A call from Venezuela to the anarchists of Latin America and the world: solidarity is much more than a written word
Submitted by Craftwork on May 12 2017 21:05
El Libertario call on all "real anarchists" to wake-up about the situation in Venezuela. Events in Venezuela are genuine expressions of working-class frustration, against a corrupt and dysfunctional state-capitalism, no longer able to sustain itself given the sharp fall in global oil prices.
The Chinese democratic uprising, 1989
Submitted by Steven. on May 7 2017 17:04
A detailed account of the national uprising for democracy which swept China in 1989 and was crushed after the Tiananmen Square massacre, written by George Katsiaficas.
