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, volume 1: The Leninist counter-revolution - Gregori Maximov
Originally published in 1940 in two volumes, 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.
On the edges of Trotskyism - some of the ones who left the SWP
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 12 2013 00:48
Some notes on the IS Network, formed by ex-members of the SWP, and on the ideas of Richard Seymour, one of them.
Trotskyism on the edge - on the SWP crisis
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 10 2013 15:25
A few more notes on the crisis in the UK Socialist Workers Party (SWP) that seems to have entered new territory.
SWP crisis: some analysis, some thoughts
Submitted by rooieravotr on Mar 13 2013 15:33
The UK Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is in deep crisis after rape accusations and faction fights have ended in the leadership reimposing some 'order' , and oppositionists leaving the party in droves. Some analysis, and some ideas on what attitude anti-authoritarians might fruitfully take.
‘Feminism is a dirty word’. What would Marx and Engels think today? - Camilla Power
This article takes ‘dinosaur marxists’ to task for refusing to treat rape as a political issue. The author looks at events in the SWP, RMT and across the British left in the light of what Marx and Engels – so often invoked by these ‘dinosaurs’ – wrote about sex and its connection with class.
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