Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Review: To The Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. Edited and translated by John Riddell. Brill, 2015, 1299 pages, $517 hardcover. IN LATE JUNE 1921, the Third Congress of the Communist International convened amidst great confusion and contradictory (...)
In a comment on this [John Riddell’s] website , Jara Handala raised a number of questions regarding the evolution of the Comintern’s position on fascism, a topic touched on in my article Weighing the Legacy of Lenin’s Comintern . I do not know of any full treatment of this topic in English. I am (...)
Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922. Edited and translated by John Riddell Haymarket Books, 2012, 1310 pages, $55 paperback.
WHEN THE COMMUNIST International was founded in March 1919, the world was in a time of revolutionary (...)
We have been having study sessions in Toronto on Toward the United Front, my book publishing the Fourth Comintern Congress proceedings, now available in paperback from Haymarket Books. Here’s my account of a recent session on discussion of anti-colonial struggle at the congress, reprinted from (...)
The newly published proceedings of the Communist International’s Fourth Congress, Toward the United Front, makes it possible for any socialist activist or independent researcher to make the acquaintance of a wide spectrum of revolutionaries of the 1920s, both prominent and obscure. No guide or (...)
On September 7, 2012, Toronto socialists presented and discussed the thoughts of delegates to the Communist International’s Fourth World Congress, 90 years earlier, on the freedom struggle in the colonies and semi-colonies. Six of these short talks are reproduced below, with the presenters’ (...)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has committed one more utterly reprehensible action. Had there been a significant revolutionary Marxist alternative rooted in the working class and gathering in its fold a considerable part (even though a minority) of the revolutionary vanguard elements of (...)
.John Riddell, ed., Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2011. 1310 pp., €199.00 / $283.00 hardback, ISBN 9789004207783 John Riddell here begins bringing to a close an epic project of over ten years duration – (...)
A review by John Riddell of Zinoviev and Martov : Head to Head in Halle, edited by Ben Lewis and Lars T. Lih. The Thrilla in Halle ! A ringside seat, just for you, as Gregory Zinoviev (in the red trunks) and Julius Martov (his are pale pink) duke it out before delegates of the 700,000-member (...)
The concept of a workers’ government is the awkward child of the early Communist International. The thought it expresses is central to Marxism: that workers must strive to take political power. But in the early Comintern, it was attached to a perspective that was contentious for Marxists then (...)
Until recently, I shared a widely held opinion that the Bolshevik Party of Russia towered above other members of the early Communist International as a source of fruitful political initiatives. However, my work in preparing the English edition of the Comintern’s Fourth Congress, held at the end (...)
The eighth annual conference of Historical Materialism, held in London 10–13 November 2011, featured a coordinated stream of papers on the history of the world Marxist movement during the era of the Communist International (Comintern) (1919-43). The thirty-eight presentations in this stream (...)
Ben Lewis reports on some interesting exchanges at the ’Historical Materialism’ weekend.
The eighth annual Historical Materialism conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies last weekend was a genuine success, with four days rammed full of papers, plenaries and discussions. (...)
The influence of the Communist International was decisive in the early 1920s in winning a generation of black revolutionaries to Marxism. On this the historians agree. But what did this influence consist of, and how was it exerted?
This question was posed by a comment posted to this website (...)
English-language discussion of the Communist International’s 1922 call for workers’ governments has been based on a preliminary draft that was significantly altered before its adoption. Here, probably for the first time in English, is the amended text that the congress actually adopted.
The call (...)
The Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) expresses its profound grief over the death of one of its leading members, comrade Paulo Piramba, who died last Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, and sends its condolences to his family, friends and comrades, and especially to his dear partner, Luciene (...)
The policy of the united front is among the most effective tools for working class action inherited from the era of VI Lenin and the Russian revolution. As originally formulated by the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) in December 1921, united front policy called (...)
June 28, 2009, was the anniversary of the two bookends of World War I, in which it is estimated more than 15 million people died. On that date in 1914 Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo and, five years later, in 1919, 90 years ago this year, the Versailles Treaty was (...)
Twitter
Facebook