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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 13:13:56 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2020 16:59:20 GMT
UK socialist parties -
Socialist Party of Great Britain Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) Big Flame Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) Workers' Revolutionary Party New Communist Party Socialist Workers Party Socialist Equality Party Communist League Communist Party of Britain Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) IMG (International Marxist Group) WWU (World Workers United) IWA (Independent Working Class Association) Socialist Party (England and Wales) Socialist Alternative SLL (Socialist Labour League) Socialist Resistance Left Unity Alliance for Green Socialism Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Great Britain (Maoist) Lewisham People Before Profit TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) Left Unity
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2020 2:05:33 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2020 16:40:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2020 10:15:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2020 12:36:43 GMT
Lenin and revolutionary organisation April 22, 2020 Written by John Westmoreland Published in History www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/21123-lenin-and-revolutionary-organisationOn the 150th anniversary of Lenin's birth, John Westmoreland, in the first of a two part series, takes on the myths and distortions to reveal the politics at the heart of the Bolshevik party up to 1917 What’s the first word that comes to mind when you hear the name Lenin? It’s dictator! I know because I have often asked the question to students (I had yet to teach) and other history teachers. Students of A level history are often asked questions about ‘Lenin’s dictatorship’, or ‘Lenin’s terror regime’ and that seems to make it official. There again we might ask what’s the first word that comes to mind when you hear the name Jeremy Corbyn? You know the answer any BBC commentator would come up with right? And yet you know he is an anti-racist, yes? So this is our starting point. If liberal historians call Lenin a dictator, and the BBC agrees, he was probably the opposite.
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2020 16:45:26 GMT
The Decade John Berger Became an Art World Revolutionary Joshua Sperling on His Turn to Reinterpreting the Past lithub.com/the-decade-john-berger-became-an-art-world-revolutionary/What makes a revolution? And what follows in its wake once one has been made? These are questions that may strike the contemporary Western reader as nostalgic. They are redolent of a past age, before history was said to have ended, and entered overtime. We continue to speak of revolutions in business, in style and technology; but rarely in politics does it mean what it used to mean. Or, for that matter, in art. It has become easier for us to imagine a disaster so vast as to make the planet uninhabitable than to see far beyond the capitalist world order that everywhere surrounds us. Only after some great cataclysm will we be able to press the reset button and start afresh. This is the latent utopian content of so many summer blockbusters. But to go only two generations back is to inhabit a different world with a different conception of the future, a different sense of the possible. The crucial dates for the European left—1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, 1968—attest to a radical lineage in which revolution occupied a central and recurring position in its psyche. History was shown again and again to be a living, writhing force. Popular energies would erupt, lose control, be put down, re-emerge, and be put down again only to reappear, often spectacularly. This was the stop-and-start of the long 19th century. And in those revolutionary moments—windows of mass disruption and seemingly irrevocable historical change—the political vanguard can be said to have been living the dream, convinced in the moment that a second coming was near at hand.
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2020 18:12:26 GMT
How about we celebrate earth day by destroying capitalism? #EarthDay Imperialist-era capitalism has created a climate emergency. The ecological Left needs to develop and put forward a socialist program as the only response capable of staving off the catastrophe. www.leftvoice.org/climate-catastrophe-and-socialist-strategy
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2020 20:10:34 GMT
One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Birth of Lenin By David North 22 April 2020 Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the Russian city of Simbirsk on April 22, 1870. Known in history under the name of Lenin, he was the founder of the Bolshevik Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution and, undoubtedly, a towering figure in the political and intellectual history of the twentieth century. Leon Trotsky once wrote that all of Lenin is summed up in the October Revolution. Trotsky illuminated the meaning of his observation when he wrote, in his history of the events of 1917: “Besides the factories, barracks, villages, the front and the soviets, the revolution had another laboratory: the brain of Lenin.” This brain had been at work on the problem of revolution for decades. The conquest of power by the Russian working class in October 1917 marked the intersection of two world historical processes: 1) the development of the contradictions of Russian and world capitalism; and 2) Lenin’s protracted struggle, based on a philosophical materialist, i.e., Marxist, analysis of objective socio-economic conditions, to build the revolutionary socialist party necessary for the working class to establish its independence from all the political agencies of the bourgeoisie. www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/22/leni-a22.html
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2020 16:40:34 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2020 20:04:46 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
Did Lenin inevitably lead to Stalin? April 26, 2020 Written by John Westmoreland Published in History www.counterfire.org/articles/history/21141-did-lenin-inevitably-lead-to-stalinThere was nothing inevitable about the grotesque transformation of Russia’s fledgeling workers’ state into Stalin’s Soviet Union, explains John Westmoreland in the third of his three-part series Part One: Lenin and revolutionary organising Part Two: 1917: Lenin and workers' power
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2020 10:02:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2020 17:34:23 GMT
A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World April 01, 2020 This is just the tip of the iceberg. Disaster capitalism and white supremacy are running amok. The Trump alliance of the neo-fascist right, combined with sectors of finance capital, the fossil fuel industry and the religious right are exploiting this crisis to accelerate climate change, reshape society and redefine the geopolitical order. cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/towardsageneralstrike
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2020 17:25:16 GMT
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