Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MARTIN Myriam, VERRI Flavia, VILLE Sébastien
This contribution is by three members of the Gauche Anticapitaliste (Anticapitalist Left) which left the NPA in July 2012. Their contribution was presented in the framework of the ongoing discussion on “broad parties” within the Fourth International.
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A period marked by the (…)
, by C. Flavio
In discussions about building anti-capitalist parties the Italian example is frequently quoted particularly in relation to Rifondazione Comunista [RC or PRC (Communist Refoundation Party)] and the eventual failure of its political project. For a fuller discussion and a more precise approach to (…)
, by LEMAITRE Yvan
The ongoing discussion on the balance sheets of building broad anti-capitalist parties at the next IC early March, gives us the opportunity to set the debates of the second conference of the NPA, our own balance sheet, in a more global context. This text is an individual contribution to this (…)
, by DEMARCQ Sandra
This text, of which the first parts were discussed collectively, in particular with the comrades of the Anticapitalist Left (GA) who are members of the IC, represents the majority view of the comrades of the NPA who are members of the International Committee.
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, by GODARD Denis
This article, unlike the others on the NPA in this section, was not a contribution to the 2013 meeting of the IC because the author is not a member of the Fourth International but is identified with the International Socialist Tendency (IST) group Socialisme par en bas (SPEB) that joined the LCR (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
Review: In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi. Edited and introduced by David Fernbach. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 350 pp., $136.00 (less expensive paperback forthcoming from Haymarket).
The economic crisis and the rise of Occupy have given fresh urgency to the question: is (…)
, by FINGER Anne
When Antonio Gramsci gave his maiden speech in Parliament in May of 1925, many of the other deputies left their seats and thronged around him in order to hear the faint voice coming from his compressed chest.
(In the introduction to one of the editions of Gramsci’s Prison Letters he is (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
I am going to concentrate more directly on Dave’s political contribution. I only hope it will be as interesting as the fascinating tributes we have just heard.
I knew Dave for 27years and worked closely with him for the whole of that time - first on the leadership bodies of the International (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
Dave Packer’s life was one of triumph – over disability, over ill health and the kind of personal and political adversity that would have immobilised less determined comrades. His tenacity enabled him to apply his sharp analytical and propagandistic abilities to fight for revolutionary Marxism (…)
, by SASSOON Donald
Lucio Magri, political activist and journalist, born 19 August 1932; died 28 November 2011..
Lucio Magri, who has died aged 79, was a veteran of the Italian new left of the 1960s and 70s. His last book, a history of Italian communism, published earlier this year in English, is titled The (…)
, by CANNAVO Salvatore
This text is the first and final chapters by the book of the same name (“La Rifondazione Mancata” published by Edizioni Allegre in 2009). This translation by Carmela Avella and Dave Kellaway was first published in the book “New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe” from Resistance Books (…)
, by COSTA Jorge Duarte, SOUSA Alda
This article was first published in the book “New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe” from Resistance Books in 2011.
Starting anew
This chapter does not aim to be a political or social essay on the history of the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc). Neither is it a journalistic account (…)
, by MARTORELL J.
WILEBALDO SOLANO, THE last member of the original leadership of the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM — Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), died in Barcelona on September 7, 2010, at 94. As an anti-Stalinist communist party, the POUM helped lead the Spanish Revolution of 1936. (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses dialectically – the celebrated Aufhebung: (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
PRESENTATION ON ROSA LUXEMBURG, IN CELEBRATION OF THE NEW VOLUME “THE LETTERS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG” – AT BOOK LAUNCH ORGANIZED BY VERSO PRESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, MARCH 14, 2011
Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1871 in a Poland divided under German and Russian domination, and she was involved in (…)
, by VOSS Michael
This contribution outlining the history of the Red-Green Alliance is taken from the book New Parties of the Left - Experiences from Europe published by Socialist Resistance (Britain) and the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam) in July 2011.
Introduction: the present (…)
, par LISTER John, THORNETT Alan
This is a chapter from the book New Parties of the Left : experiences from Europe published by Resistance Books and the IIRE in July 2011.
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The need for new left-wing pluralist parties, which can embrace a broad spectrum of the left - both those with revolutionary (…)
, by DERBYSHIRE Jonathan
Ralph Miliband, father of the Labour leadership rivals David and Ed, is remembered as a great teacher and an inspiration to young socialists. So which son is his true heir?
During a recent televised debate, the five candidates for the leadership of the Labour Party were asked to name their (…)
, by PALMER John
Kenneth Sidney Coates, politician and writer, born 16 September 1930; died 27 June 2010.
Ken Coates, who has died after a suspected heart attack, aged 79, was one of the most perceptive minds and eloquent voices of the radical left. From the mid-1960s, for four decades he was a major (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Denise Comanne died on Friday 28 May 2010. She had a heart attack in the street after taking part in actions of solidarity with people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her funerals which will take place the 3rd of June in Liege. Below, a text sent by Eric Toussaint, her compagnon. It (…)
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