The prevention of communism - Radical Chains The authors identify capitalism's decay as assuming forms of the prevention of communism. These - notably stalinism and social-democracy - are…
Statement of Intent - Radical Chains Statement of intent from the communist journal, Radical Chains, published in London between 1989 and 1998.
Franz Jakubowski: consciousness and the critique of political economy - Radical Chains This article examines the attempt by Franz Jakubowski, a trotskyist leader of the 1930s, to confront…
World War I and the demise of British feminism - Susan Kingsley Kent How war stifled British feminism. Up until 1914, the suffrage campaign became a mass movement…
Social Structures, Political Elites and Ideology in Revolutionary Paris - Richard Andrews The bourgeois and authoritarian nature of the sans-culottes in revolutionary Paris.
Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who…
Updates from the Greek Squares and People's Assemblies There is a virtual blackout in international media about what is an escalation of popular resistance…
Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them - Encyclopedie des Nuisances An essay proclaiming the pivotal role of "harmful phenomena"--broadly defined to…
The welfare state isn’t now, and never was, a “genuine gain for the working class”. In the 1880s Bismarck's social insurance programs - old age pensions, accident insurance, medical…
London Underground strike threat wins reinstatement for unfairly sacked driver Six days of strikes on the London Underground by the RMT union have been called off after management…
What happens if the USA defaults on its debts?????????? Given the US debt, and the global crisis unfolding, the question above should be seriously considered. My knowledge of economics is pretty poor, but I refuse to accept that experts are the only ones who have something to say, so.... (btw, this is something carried over from the Greek thread: out of the labyrinth.)
Silent revolution in Belarus The situation in Belarus is now getting closer to the one that was during the elections in December 2010 but now it seems to be more massive…