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, by ALI Tariq, DAMODARAN Karthikeyan
Damodaran was a Marxist of great humility who hardly ever spoke about himself or his past. He played a pivotal role in building the Communist movement in Kerala. Uniquely for someone who had been so important in the (united) Communist Party of India, by the late 1960s Damodaran had become (…)
, by MANDEL Ernest
For more than a decade the world situation was dominated by the civil war in Vietnam and the attempt of U.S. imperialism to determine its outcome by means of a counterrevolutionary war of intervention. This was not simply a result of the fact that the international, internal, military, and even (…)
, by HEMERY Daniel
In the 1930s in South Vietnam (Cochin China), the Indochinese Communist Party, the Vietnamese Trotskyists and independent Marxists formed a united front to engage in legal work in the French colony. They published together a newspaper, La Lutte (The Struggle). The website “Marxistes” has (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
A long debate occurred during the 1960-1970s within the Fourth International on the nature of the Vietnamese revolution and on the role of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP). In the text below, Pierre Rousset answers George Johnson and Fred Feldman’s criticisms of his 1973 book Le Parti (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi, WANG Fanxi / Wang Fan-hsi, WATARU Yakushiji
The interview with the late Chinese Trotskyist Wang Fan-hsi [王凡西] (1907-2002) was produced when Wataru Yakushiji, a member of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL: Fourth-International group), visited Hong Kong and Macao in the summer of 1972.
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, by SEN Sukla
Author’s introductory note: The following is the English version (translated by the author) of the original write-up in Bengali, carried by a special issue of the organ of a left student organisation, in early 1971. Special care has been taken not to “update”, while translating, with the benefit (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Original title: “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”.
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TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years (…)
This is the complete version of the English-language pamphlet published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking (now Beijing) in 1968. A number of explanatory footnotes have been added, which are taken from an abridged edition of the pamphlet which was published by the Revolutionary Communist (…)
, by TAMPOE Bala
The following article appeared in Young Socialist (Colombo), Vol.2 No.5 (Whole No.10) September 1963: pages 257-259.
, by CONWAY Frances
The changes in a historical epoch may always be inferred from the comparative freedom of women in one part of it or another, for in an improvement in the relations between women and men, between the weak and the strong, we see most clearly the victory of human nature over the nature of the brute (…)
, by WANG Fanxi / Wang Fan-hsi
From Revolutionary History, Vol.2 No.4, Spring 1990. Used by permission.
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When the Chinese Trotskyists split in May 1941, the minority group led by Zheng Chaolin and Wang Fanxi published the magazine The Internationalist, and from June 1946, New Banner. In July 1949 it assumed (…)
, by JINNAH Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s first Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (August 11, 1947).
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen!
I cordially thank you, with the utmost sincerity, for the honour you have conferred upon me — the greatest honour that (…)
, par TROTSKY Leon / TROTSKI Léon / TROTSKY Léon
Dear Friends :
Titanic and terrible events are approaching with implacable force. Mankind lives in expectation of war which will, of course, also draw into its maelstrom the colonial countries and which is of vital significance for their destiny. Agents of the British government depict the (…)
, by SINGH Bhagat
It is a matter of debate whether my lack of belief in the existence of an Omnipresent, Omniscient God is due to my arrogant pride and vanity. It never occurred to me that sometime in the future I would be involved in polemics of this kind. As a result of some discussions with my friends, (if my (…)
, by A. F. (International Press Correspondence)
Economically, Indo-China is ruled by the Bank of Indo-China, which in the year 1924 possessed a capital of 64,400,000 francs, and the transactions of which during the ‘same year amounted to 4,5 milliards. It has in its hands the “Credit Industriel et Commercial”, the French Coal Company of (…)
, by BAUTISTA Ambrosio Rianzares
In the town of Cavite-Viejo, Province of Cavite, this 12th day of June 1898: BEFORE ME, Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, War Counsellor and Special Delegate designated to proclaim and solemnize this Declaration of Independence by the Dictatorial Government of the Philippines, pursuant to, and by (…)
, by ALBANO Teresa
On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act. Miller was later arrested by the FBI, found guilty at trial and sentenced to two years in prison. (…)
, by LIYANAGE Sumanasiri
Mahinda Rajapaksa has to face his erstwhile colleague in the cabinet and the General Secretary of the SLFP, former Minister of Health, Maithripala Sirisena at the forthcoming presidential election. Since many parties including the main opposition party, UNP, and civil society organizations have (…)
, by JAYAWARDANA Sandun
Duminda Nagamuwa from the Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP), which was formed by a breakaway faction of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is among the candidates contesting the upcoming presidential election. Nagamuwa is representing an alliance of leftist political parties. A prominent member (…)
Presidential candidate Duminda Nagamuwa said he decided to contest the Presidential Election to expose the aggressive politics of the government and the Opposition’s intention to plunder from the people. “The slogans of the government and the Opposition do not represent the people’s problems. We (…)
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