Radical Chains

Content by or about Radical Chains, a communist journal published in London between 1989 and 1998.

Anton Pannekoek and the theory of the transition - Radical Chains

Pannekoek's experience of the German revolution led him to observe that the workers' own struggle…

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After Zimmerwald - Radical Chains

The modern left, bolshevism included, are all children of Zimmerwald. It was at the Zimmerwald conference in 1915 that the revolutionary left…

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…

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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…

The hidden political economy of the left - Radical Chains

It is from Lenin's Imperialism and State and Revolution that the modern left derives much of its…

The myth of working class passivity - Radical Chains

There is an unbridgeable gap between the project outlined in Lenin's What is to be Done? and the principle of proletarian self-emancipation. We…

Joseph Dietzgen - Radical Chains

The historic split between anarchism and socialism has had a debilitating effect on the workers movement, and Joseph Dietzgen was one of those…

Back to Bax - Radical Chains

Belfort Bax belonged to the first generation of British Marxists. He was the philosopher who introduced William Morris to dialectics. From…

The leopard in the 20th century: value, struggle and administration - William Dixon

An examination of the changes within capitalism as a response to the development of the antagonistic…

Towards a political economy of Stalinism - Paul B Smith

Paul B.Smith reviews Hillel Ticktin's book: Origins of the Crisis in the USSR: Essays on the…

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Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns - reviewed by Wildcat (UK), 1993.

Wildcat (UK)'s review of Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns.