The policy of abstention - William Morris
A speech given by William Morris in 1887 arguing for abstention from participation in the Parliamentary process and arguing for libertarian socialism.
All Socialists who can be considered to have any claim to that title agree in putting forward the necessity of transforming the means of production from individual into common property : that is the least that the party can accept as terms of peace with the capitalists; and obviously they are hard terms of peace for the latter, since they mean the destruction of individualist capital.
Socialism & Parliament - Guy Aldred
Guy A. Aldred argues for libertarian, extra-parliamentary socialism instead of Labourist or statist socialism in 1923.
The advent of a Labour opposition in the House of Commons, the near possibility of that opposition becoming His Majesty's Government, have revived interest in the question of parliamentary action. Bitter plaints at the historic failure of Parliamentary methods are tempered with a faint hope that something may be achieved by parliamentarism.
The crisis in Venezuela: understanding the causes, assigning blame and suggesting solutions
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Jan 25 2010 14:04
The public pronouncement from the Editorial Collective of El Libertario in mid-January 2010 on the current situation in Venezuela.
While we are still suffering from the impact of the problems which had intensified towards the end of 2009, such as the fraudulent ‘Bolibourgeois’ bankers and the ongoing malaise throughout public services, a host of measures recently undertaken by the government signal a bitter start to 2010 for Venezuela.
Chavez: When red and yellow don't make green
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Jan 19 2010 16:24
It may seem like an age ago now in the midst of all the subsequent economic tumult over here, but I wanted to write about Chávez’ recent rhetorical excursion at the emergency Climate Change summit in Copenhagen last month.
Never the one to spare any expense or effort on PR, the Venezuelan President first managed to address a group of Danish leftists through a translator (a somewhat ad hoc exercise in rabble-rousing which turned into a succession of "Vivas!" for his anti-imperialist allies, with Iran a curious omission).
Birth of a revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia - Fredy Perlman
Submitted by Robby on Jan 14 2010 20:04
1969 pamphlet by Fredy Perlman on the beginnings of the 1968 revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia.
"Heretics are always more dangerous than enemies," concluded a Yugoslav philosopher after analyzing the repression of Marxist intellectuals by the Marxist regime of Poland. (S. Stojanovic, in Student, Belgrade, April 9, 1968, p. 7.)
Economic content of socialism in Lenin; is it the same as in Marx?
Paresh Chattopadhyay on the economic ideas of Lenin's, as opposed to Marx's socialism.
Economic Content of Socialism in Lenin
Is It the Same as in Marx?
Paresh Chattopadhyay
Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) January 26, 1991.
Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism
Lars T. Lih on the Bolshevik policies of war communism and what they meant for workers and peasants.
Political Testament of Lenin and Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP
Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.
Venezuela: Vetelca - the story of the first ever Bolivarian factory
This report originally appears in issue #57 of Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario. It is a detailed examination of the events behind the mobile telephone manufacturer Vetelca, in which the notion of a socialist industrial production model in Venezuela is unmasked.
On 10th May, 2009, President Hugo Chávez appeared on national television from the El Tigre region of Barinas state in order to announce to the nation the availability of a mobile telephone made under the supervision of the Bolivarian government. Some weeks earlier, he himself had named it “El Vergatorio” [a crude term which roughly translates as “the biggest dick” - translator].
The first ever Caracas Libertarian Bookfair
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Nov 30 2009 22:07
From 16-22 November, Caracas-based anarchist newspaper El Libertario hosted the first ever Libertarian Bookfair of its kind in Venezuela. Below is something of an evaluation of the week, plus some analysis of the political spectrum inside the country.
The event - which coincided with the state-organised Bookfair but five stops away on the Caracas Metro - was small in its size and modest in its ambitions, but at times inspiring and motivating.
.png "Men outside IWW headquarters in Duluth")
Can comment on articles and discussions