A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part II): The Platform and its Disciples
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 21 2021 14:29
In Part I we examined the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina, the revolutionary movement in Southern Ukraine 1918-21. It was neither a peasant counter-revolution as portrayed in Trotskyist and Stalinist propaganda, nor an anarchist utopia. Rather it was part and parcel of the bloody process of the rise and fall of the Russian Revolution, itself a part of the post-war revolutionary wave. In Part II we finally look at The Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists or simply the Platform, and the Platformist tendency that it later inspired.
A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part I): The Makhnovshchina
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 21 2021 14:12
Many over the years have pointed out the apparent similarities between Platformism and the Communist Left, and indeed some comrades whom today we count among our ranks first came to the politics of the Communist Left through Platformism. But while the need for revolutionaries to come together, in an organisation united around a common platform, is something both tendencies acknowledge, the differences go a bit further than whether one stands beneath a red or black banner. We often get asked what is our attitude towards Platformism and the following is a two-part attempt to grapple with the question.
Platformo de organizo de la Ĝenerala Unuiĝo de Anarkiisto
Traduko fare de Jesús González de la propono de la Grupo Dielo Truda pri tutanarkiista organizaĵo
The Makhnovist movement and the national question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 26 2017 09:35
A detailed account and analysis of the Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist army, during the Russian revolution, written by Aleksandr Shubin.
Nestor Maĥno
Biografio de la revoluciulo anarkiisto el Ukrainio.
Nestor Makhno: the man and the myth
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 14 2016 18:37
A short biography of Nestor Makhno by historian Paul Avrich.
Views and Comments No. 29 (July 1958)
The No. 29 (July 1958) issue of Views and Comments, an anarcho-syndicalist leaning publication produced out of New York by the Libertarian League from 1955 until 1966.
Views and Comments No. 27 (March 1958)
The No. 27 (March 1958) issue of Views and Comments, an anarcho-syndicalist leaning publication produced out of New York by the Libertarian League from 1955 until 1966.
Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack - Alexandre Skirda
The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the Tsarist empire and the civil war that took place as Makhno's army fought both the remnants of the old regime and the new Bolshevik one.
Vanguard (Vol. 3, No. 5, December 1936)
The December 1936 issue of Vanguard, an anarchist journal published out of New York, with articles by Sam Dolgoff, Max Nomad, and Luigi Bertoni.
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