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, by LÖWY Michael
CLEARLY, THE WORK OF FRANZ KAFKA CANNOT BE REDUCED to a political doctrine of any kind. Kafka did not give speeches but fashioned individuals and situations. In his work, he expressed a Stimmung or sense of feelings and attitudes. The symbolic world of literature cannot be reduced to the (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
When the Berlin Wall fell, the peoples of Eastern Europe were told that privatisation and the market would bring them economic efficiency and freedom. They were also told that as soon as they set up democratic regimes they could join the “civilised, normal world”. In other words, “back to (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
On 14 June, demonstrators from all fifteen European Union states will arrive in Amsterdam. On Foot. Francois Vercammen introduces the European marches against unemployment, marginalisation and job insecurity.
In June, European leaders will meet in Amsterdam to amend the Maastricht Treaty, (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
The Serbian Socialist Party has has dominated politics ever since the Communist league dissolved itself in 1990. Manipulation of the electoral law and the media are only part of the explanation.
The population sees Milosevic as their best defender in a context they perceive as characterised (…)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
The subject of Ukrainian collaboration in the Nazi-directed genocide of the European Jews is a minefield. Over the past decade it has several times erupted into public controversy (notably over the Deschênes Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, the trial of John Demjanjuk in Israel (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
The end of the Cold War is itself now coming to an end, as Europe enters a new phase marked by the redivision of the continent. This is the real significance of the NATO enlargement and the likely significance of the next moves of the EU in the long saga of what is called EU eastward (…)
, by FARBER Samuel
AS THE MAN appointed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to manage the secret files housed in the KGB, Communist Party and government offices, the late former General Dmitri Volkogonov utilized his privileged access by publishing a number of works, notably the lavishly acclaimed Lenin. A New (…)
, by WEISSMAN Susan
IN THE MOTHER of all factional struggles within the Soviet elite, during the “glasnost” of the 1980s, none other than Boris Yeltsin recruited the memory of Leon Trotsky in his anti-privilege campaign against corrupt party apparatchiks. Gorbachev, the wiser, neutralized Trotsky and undercut the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Tenacious and combative strikes in the public services, millions of demonstrators on the streets, broad support from public opinion: last December’s events in France were a lot more than a strike, indeed it is no exaggeration to call them an uprising by the working, producing, caring, teaching (…)
, by KEET Dot
Reports from Cape Town on the counter strategies by South Africa and its partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to the EU’s thrust for free trade access to - and through - South Africa into the rest of Southern Africa [1].
Since the European Union turned down South (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Walter Benjamin, born in a bourgeois Berlin Jewish family in 1892, was not only a brilliant literary critic and sociologist of culture, but also one of the most creative modem Marxist thinkers. A friend of Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adomo, and Gershom Scholem (the well known historian of Jewish (…)
, by Fourth International
1. The Fourth International and its European sections have a clear general approach towards the European Union (EU) and European integration. Far from responding to the social and international aspirations of workers, women, youth and oppressed nationalities, the EU reflects on a regional level (…)
, by PATEL Pragna
The resurgence of Hindu nationalism and fundamentalism in India has had a profound political and social impact on the Asian (Hindu) communities in Britain. This contribution will try to trace some of the developments and their political effect for Asians in Britain. I also want to touch on the (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party by, Paul Le Blanc. Introduction by Ernest Mandel. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1989. 364 pp. $60.
There is no lack of books about Lenin, but this is the first attempt at a precise historical reconstruction of his organizational thought: (…)
, by Fourth International
SINCE the 1979 11th World Congress resolution “The Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation” important changes have taken place in the forms of women’s radicalization in western imperialist countries.
That resolution noted the mass resurgence of feminist ideas and (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Review: The Roots of Otherness: Russia’s Turn of the Century, by Teodor Shanin.
This two-volume work is not only “a distinguished piece of scholarship” (Dennis Wrong), representing “historical sociology at its best” (William G. Rosenberg). It is all that and also something else: a radical (…)
, by MANDEL Ernest
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On the occasion of the bicentenary celebrations of the Great French Revolution of 1789, there was an intense public controversy in France, Great Britain and the United States about the alleged ‘excessive costs’ of this revolution. The conquest of human rights, so far, so good. But what (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
Written in 1989, this article tells the true but unknown and dramatic story of Bolsheviks faced during the civil war with an unexpected national revolution of the oppressed Ukrainian people, the conflict-ridden relationships between Russian and Ukrainian communists and the great dilemma of what should be Ukraine: a part of the Soviet but, as in the imperial past, “one and indivisible” Russia or an independent Soviet state?
“Despite the giant step forward taken by the October (...)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
When this document was first posted online, the whole ending part and appendices was missing. It is now complete and a number corrections has also been introduced. It happens that the caracter recognition program sometimes quite freely and creatively interprete what it reads and I am not sure (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KRIVINE Alain
This chapter from the book Mai Si! Rebelles et repentis by Daniel Bensaïd and Alain Krivine was first published in English in International Marxist Review Volume 3 number 2, Autumn 1988. That version unfortunately was published in an uncorrected form. This has been corrected by the original (…)
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