Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KAGARLITSKY Boris
Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, Director of the Institute of Globalisation Studies and Social Movements in Moscow.
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THE predominant mood amongst most of the people in India as 2010 came to an end and the new year began was one of despondency, hopelessness and cynicism. (…)
, by ALI Tariq, KIRSTY Jane
Today’s guest contributor, Tariq Ali, is a writer, activist and political commentator. A leading figure of the Trotskyist movement in the sixties and seventies, Ali’s engagement with Trotsky goes far beyond party politics. I met up with him at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where he was (…)
, by BENJAMIN Alan
July 24, 2010
Dear Friends:
I am writing this letter to ask for your support for the “International Friends of the Leon Trotsky Museum” in Mexico City.
I — along with many others around the world — was asked by the Museum’s new director, Olivia Gall, and by Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
In response to my critical review of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky , a reader of the journal Links wrote the following response, with a question and suggestion:
“As usual, a very good article by Paul. I would describe myself as a socialist (or communist) and I think all the usual (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
A review of: Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 600 pages, including end notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.
Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. “Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
* Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite (London/New York: Routledge, 2008), 289 pages. $160.
* Soma Marik, Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2008), 537 pages. $55. (…)
, by PORTER Bernard
Amid all this celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, I’m left wondering whether I was the only one to have jumped the other way at the time. It turned me into a Marxist. All my adult life before then I had thought that Marx had been wrong, for example in predicting that (…)
, by RAMONET Ignacio
PARIS, Nov (IPS) It’s been twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down, on November 9, 1989. Today, as capitalism staggers beneath the blows of a historic crisis, what can we say about the intervening two decades? Why have other equally offensive and unacceptable walls not fallen? (…)
, by RIDDELL John
Genossinnen und Genossen! That is how Clara Zetkin began her speeches. It is German for “women comrades and men comrades.” Few socialists used that salutation in her time, and there were few women at their meetings. But that was beginning to change, and Zetkin was part of those changes.
Clara (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Review of:
The Marxism of Leon Trotsky. By Kunal Chattopadhyay. Kolkata: Progress Publishers, 2006, 672 pages, including index, $25 paperback.
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. By Marcel van der Linden. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, 379 pages, including index, $20 paperback. (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Tariq Ali on Trotsky by Robert Service and Stalin’s Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude.
Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20
For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher’s (…)
, by KILMISTER Andy
November 21 2008 marked the fortieth anniversary of the end of the student strike in Czechoslovakia against the occupation of the country by Russian troops the preceding August.
The strike began in Prague and spread throughout Bohemia and Moravia, following the most dramatic year of post-war (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Conference on the Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism took place on July 25-27 at the Bronx campus of New York City’s Fordham University. As one of the people who helped plan and organize the conference, I would like to offer a few reflections. In what follows I will avoid critical (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
The “great capitalist transformation” in the East was characterized by general forced “privatisations” in a very opaque and unprecedented context. It had to radically transform the role of money and markets in the whole economy to permit capital accumulation while getting rid of the existing (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
This was the opening presentation at a lively session of the Left Forum, in New York City, March 14-17, 2008 whose overall title was “Lenin’s Return?” – other presentations being given by Lars Lih on “Lenin and Kautsky,” by Professor Helen C. Scott on “Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg,” and by Professor (…)
, by MANDEL David
The October Revolution of 1917 was the most influential political event of the twentieth century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had echoes in (…)
, by MANDEL David
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
THIS APPEAL FROM Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and (…)
, by RIDDELL John
When Bolivian President Evo Morales formally opened his country’s Constituent Assembly on August 6, 2006, he highlighted the aspirations of Bolivia’s indigenous majority as the central challenge before the gathering. The convening of the Assembly, he said, represented a “historic moment to (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Marxism of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin represents a powerful force for political freedom and genuine democracy. Yet it gave way to the murderous bureaucratic tyranny associated with Joseph Stalin. Adherents of Stalinism, perhaps wishing to see the promising beginnings of socialism in that (…)
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