Stuart Holland: The man who gave Bennism a theory
Holland popularised a Eurocommunist approach on the British left, and that in doing so he eased the passage of those ideas into the layers around Kinnock and then Blair.
Revolución y partido en el pensamiento de Gramsci
Dan Jakopovich
Not one bloc: Alan Thornett, the Fourth International and Mike Macnair
Alan made mistakes, and he said so. But the mistakes Macnair lists are mostly not his.
Ernest Mandel on Hungary 1956: a workers’ revolution against the bureaucracy
On the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Hungary, translated for the first time.
Substitute Russia for Japan: Was Soviet Ukraine a colony?
Lenin, Volobuiev and Trotsky answered before the question was fashionable, and the order books answered after them. Part 12 of the ‘With Washington and Moscow’ series
The method that explains everything: a review of Mike Macnair’s history of the IMG
Mick Last (Mike Macnair), “Questions of Method and Theory in the History of the IMG-SL, 1970–1985”.
The Harvest and the Docks
Workers’ Liberty sends volunteers to the olive groves and argues against the boycott at home. Its own paper once called for both kinds of solidarity.
La teoría del valor-trabajo de Marx
Dónde se rompe la continuidad con Ricardo, y qué contesta Marx a las dos objeciones que llevan un siglo dándolo por muerto.
The Vote & What Comes After
When the only candidate who can stop the far right heads a ticket with bourgeois parties, can the left vote for that ticket without joining the bloc behind it, and where does it draw the line?
Who is the Leaflet Actually Talking To?
“No to Automation”: A Negotiating Position, Not a Programme
A Cult, an Egomaniac and a Settling of Scores
Sean Matgamna’s obituary of Alan Thornett is the 1984 case for the prosecution. Postscript: They treated Workers Power the same way
¿Qué es la teoría de la revolución permanente? - Ernest Mandel
«La revolución “transcrece” de la lucha por reivindicaciones nacionales y democráticas en revolución socialista, sin ninguna interrupción de la continuidad.»
Nobody sent them: why a movement is not the property of whoever profits from it
France’s school students, Maidan and Budapest 1956: 70 Years Since the Hungarian Revolution
Four Words on a Placard
Why the SWP’s ultra-left moralism disarms the campaign for a data centre moratorium
They have tried this before: Gaullists call for a ban on the French left
International solidarity needed as Les Républicains calls to ban La France Insoumise (LFI) and arrest Phillipe Poutou from the NPA-A.
R.I.P. The Canary? The bank is the new printer
The Canary has closed after two banks shut it out. The left press should treat its bank account the way it once treated its printer: as the weakest point in the chain.
A united front “to fight for class struggle socialism”?
How Workers’ Liberty decided the answer to the Together Alliance is the AWL’s own programme
Soviet Ecology: Science and Power in the USSR, from Lenin to Stalin
Bandiera Rossa, the Fourth Internationalist magazine in Italian, from 1991
Unpopular is not ultra-left: The Greens’ Zionism motion, and the word the left is throwing at it
Where the test actually bites
El materialismo histórico
La existencia social determina la conciencia. Lo que sigue son cuatro razones de Mandel para no ser determinista.
Ecosocialist analysis for the international left. Covers the SWP, Counterfire, Your Party, campism, Ukraine, Green Parties, & the Fourth International. Written for revolutionary activists across 47 countries. In Castilian on Saturdays: 'Topo Rojo'.
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