Are we all Corbynistas now?
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jun 16 2017 11:50
Latest blogpost from The Word From Struggle Street - an anticapitalist blog from Brisbane. An attempt to make sense of the debate in Australia around Corbyn.
Armed Insurrection - A. Neuberg (1928)
The first English-language edition of 'Armed Insurrection' was translated from French and German by Quintin Hoare and published by New Left Books in 1970. Written in Moscow under Comintern auspices, published under the pseudonym 'A. Neuberg', it was actually written by a group of leading Comintern political/military experts and is a classic Third Period document. Produced in 1928 as a practical insurrectionary manual for communists.
On the Role of Black Bloc: A Critical Look
When we, as anarchists or anti-fascists, go out into the streets, questions should arise: What are we doing here? What are our goals? What is the most appropriate or powerful way to achieve those goals? Our tactical choices should always be in service of our goals — they should never be goals in themselves.
The Master's Tools: Warfare and Insurgent Possibility
An pragmatic and analytic attempt to consider tactics and power as fluid concepts within dynamic and changing situations, devoid of moral baggage.
The limits of anti-racism - Adolph Reed Jr.
The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #121, September 2009. Adolph Reed Jr. dissects 'anti-racism'. Unfortunately Reed deals only with liberal anti-racism and does so in order to defend social democracy rather than a liberatory politics.
Attentat
An anonymously written journal composed of essays on nihilist ideas, history, strategy, and critique.
Hegemony and socialist strategy: towards a radical democratic politics - Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, 'Hegemony and Socialist Strategy' remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against 'Third Way' attempts to overcome the antagonism between Left and Right.
Against strategy - humanaesfera
A critique of ideology of the strategy from the perspective of the concept of class composition.
Contra a estratégia - humanaesfera
Crítica da ideologia da estratégia do ponto de vista do conceito de composição de classe.
The SPA: Dashed on the Rocks of Compromise
Submitted by jondwhite on Aug 22 2016 15:40
Other than in our Socialist Party, way too much thought on revolutionary socialist organisation gets written advocating Lenin’s way as the one and only way and applying historic conditions under Russian feudalism to Western democracies today, and whose justification amounts to thinly veiled apologetics for ‘history is written by the victors’. The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History by Jack Ross, published last year, joins the comparatively smaller range of literature not from this vanguard perspective, and even opposed to it.
