10 July: a ‘season of struggle’?
Submitted by Phil on May 13 2014 17:26
An initial response to the announcement from the People’s Assembly that there will be a ‘mass strike’ on 10 July this year.
The International Communist League on Roman Polanski
An absolutely appalling article from the Trotskyist Spartacist League in support of convicted child rapist film director Roman Polanski. We completely disagree with the article but reproduce it as evidence of their sexist, pro-child abuse, rape-denying views. Trigger warning for sexual violence.
Standing fast: a novel - Harvey Swados
Harvey Swados' fictional story of a group of socialists and their lives from the dawn of USA's involvement in World War II to the Kennedy assasination. More or less based on the Worker's Party of Max Shachtman, C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya and Stan Weir.
An open letter to I.S. comrades - Solidarity
“On the relations between types of revolutionary organisation and the types of society they are likely to bring about.” Issued as a Solidarity pamphlet in 1968 and 1972.
A Leninist vanguard party dying in a foreign land: 1956: the fading revolution
Part of an apparently unfinished work on the "vanguard party" experience, Stan Weir writes about a weekend with Max Shachtman, as the Hungarian Revolution was happening.
Power to the people, not politicians! A critique of socialist electoralism
Submitted by Kdog on Nov 5 2013 04:48
Statement from the Minnesota Local Collective of First of May Anarchist Alliance regarding the Socialist Alternative campaign for City Council in Minneapolis. SA seems poised to make some electoral breakthroughs in Seattle and Minneapolis where they may score over 40% of the vote and conceivably even win seats in city government. This prospect has caused quite a bit of discussion on the Left which is likely to only increase after the election.
Against the IWW series part 2: The IWW (1955) by James P Cannon
Submitted by Recomposition on Oct 23 2013 00:57
The second in Recomposition's series at looking at some of the arguments against the IWW. James P Cannon argues that the Russian Revolution made the IWW irrelevant and out of touch.
Left for dead
Submitted by Automnia on Oct 7 2013 08:44
In this piece @Aut_Omnia discusses the death of "the left" and the potential for the rebirth of the real movement.
The guillotine at work, part 1: the Leninist counter-revolution
Originally published in 1940 in two parts, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia during the revolution after 1917.
Maurice Brinton interview (1990)
Submitted by wojtek on Oct 2 2013 10:18
Interview with Chris Pallis (aka Maurice Brinton) produced by Agora International during the Cerisy Colloquium. He talks about the importance of Cornelius Castoriadis’ (aka Paul Cardan)’s ideas in his break from Trotskyism, and the ‘Solidarity’ group, of which he was the most prominent member.
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