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, par RIDDELL John
Thanks to Lindsey German for her constructive comment, Clara Zetkin : oppression, class, and socialism. She has provided useful documentation of Zetkin’s views on socialism and feminism from the years before World War .
Reading these quotations, it seems to me that some of Zetkin’s opinions (…)
, par GERMAN Lindsey
Among the responses to my article, “Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress,” the following comment by Lindsey German is of particular interest. Lindsey is a London-based activist and writer for socialism and women’s liberation. She is a (…)
, by RIDDELL John
In 1921, when the Communist International (Comintern) held its Third World Congress, Clara Zetkin was the most widely respected Communist outside Russia. Yet she was the victim of vigorous efforts on the eve of the congress to vilify her and drive her out of the Comintern leadership, if not from (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, Elissa Bemporad, Indiana University Press, 2013, 292 pp., $28.00.
For most Jews in the United States, the legacy of the Soviet Union is linked to anti-Semitism. This is understandable, given not only the targeting of Jewish writers, (…)
, by MARIK Soma
A short piece which I wrote three years back.....still relevant as I find today where women in revolutionary parties or mass organizations are not heard enough or gender issues are yet to be treated as class issues on the 99th year of the revolution.
Soma Marik, November 7, 2016 (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The following was presented by Paul Le Blanc to the “Organising for 21st century socialism” seminar in Sydney on June 8, 2013. The seminar was organised by the Socialist Alliance. Le Blanc also addressed meetings in Wollongong, Melbourne and Adelaide.
In the first portion of these remarks I (…)
, by LIH Lars
Vladimir Nevsky (1876-1937) lived the life (in the words of an autobiographical sketch written in the 1920s) of an “ordinary party worker”, a professional, in the Bolshevik underground. Joining the party in 1897, he was a mid-level Bolshevik praktik who played a visible role in 1917 conducting (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
This contribution “Revisiting 1989’s ambiguous revolutions” is a chapter of the book “From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolution”, Vicken Cheterian, Ed., C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2013.
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Twenty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Timothy Garton Ash wrote that « in (…)
, by RIDDELL John
Review by John Riddell of ((The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”: The Conductor and the Conducted)), by Michael A. Lebowitz, New York: Monthly Review 2012.
In current discussions of twenty-first century socialism, the work of Michael Lebowitz has a unique merit: it is rooted in the (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Today’s remarkable period of world capitalist crisis and global insurgency is causing a growing number of activists to move in revolutionary directions – creating exciting opportunities to help more and more of the rising generation connect with the resources of revolutionary Marxism, vibrantly (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
In this critical review of Pham Binh’s essay “Mangling the Party: Tony Cliff’s Lenin,” Paul Le Blanc argues that Binh’s single-minded focus on demolishing Cliff’s work leads to misinformation and a failure to live up to the comprehensive revolutionary method Binh advocates. Le Blanc contends (…)
, by BINH Pham
The following is dedicated to anyone and everyone has sacrificed in the name of “building the revolutionary party.”
January 24, 2012 – Submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party published in 1975 was the first book-length political (…)
, by CHAUVIER Jean-Marie
The death of the former Czech president and emblematic figure of the dissident movements in the countries of Eastern Europe is giving rise to a somewhat debatable rewriting of history. Havel is presented today as an “anticommunist resistant”, a combatant “against communism”, the liberator of (…)
, by POST Charles
Lenin Reconsidered: Review of Lars T. Lih, Lenin (London: Reaktion Press, 2011), 240 pages, $16.95.
Few historical figures on the international revolutionary left have been the subject of as much historical myth-making as Lenin.
Born VI Ulyanov in 1870, the son of a liberal Tsarist (…)
, by LARE Ron
Review: Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy, by Soma Marik, Delhi, India: Aakar Books, 2008, 496 pages plus bibliography and index.
2017 WILL MARK the Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary. Socialists will again ask how the revolution was made and why (…)
, by RIDDELL John
We have already posted online John Riddell’s Nationality’s role in social liberation: the Soviet legacy (ESSF, article 22308]. We reproduce below comments from readers and the author’s response to them. We’ll eventually add later exchanges.
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My article “Nationality’s role (…)
, by McLEMEE Scott
Every so often, one scholar will assess another’s book so harshly that it becomes legendary. The most durable example must be A.E. Housman, whose anti-blurbs retain their sting after a century and more. Housman is best-known for the verse in his collection A Shropeshire Lad (1896). But (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
I will never forget, as the twentieth century trudged through its final decade, a once-close comrade telling me and others that developments of our time had consigned the Leninist conception of the party to “the dustbin of history.” Yet its dusty tracks may be something we will discover as we (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18–21 , Platypus hosted a conversation on “Lenin’s Marxism.” Panelists Chris Cutrone of Platypus, Paul Le Blanc of the International Socialist Organization, and Lars T. Lih the author of Lenin Reconsidered: “What is to be Done” (…)
, by RIDDELL John
This paper was first presented to Left Forum in New York, March 20, 2010.
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Just under a century ago, the newly founded Soviet republic embarked on the world’s first concerted attempt to unite diverse nations in a federation that acknowledged the right to self-determination (…)
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