Posts Tagged ‘marxism’
Anti-sectarianism, Polish style
Published in Weekly Worker, 23 May 2013 As some of our British comrades in Left Unity contemplate sinking to unheard-of levels of blandness in the hope of attracting the tired, poor and huddled masses, such considerations do not seem to cross the minds of the Polish Władza Rad group. “We are communists,” proclaims the ‘About’ […]
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Tags: communism, marxism, poland, Polish Party of Labour, Polska Partia Pracy, Sierpien 80, solidarnosc, Trotskism, Władza Rad
A good beginning
Reader’s letter to the Weekly Worker, May 02 2013 I read with interest Anne McShane’s and Ben Lewis’s accounts of Alexandra Kollontai and August Bebel, and their relationship to feminism. It is remarkable how many different understandings of the term have been making the rounds in the pages of the Weekly Worker recently, and I am confident that […]
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Tags: Alexandra Kollontai, August Bebel, Claire Lacombe, feminism, marxism, Rosa Luxemburg, women's movement
Austromarxism and terrorism
In ‘Why Marxists oppose individual terrorism‘ (1911), Trotsky contrasted individual terrorism with industrial action: “The anarchist prophets of the ‘propaganda of the deed’ can argue all they want about the elevating and stimulating influence of terrorist acts on the mass… it belittles the role of the masses… A strike, even of modest size, has social consequences: strengthening of […]
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Tags: assassination, Austrian workers' movement, Austromarxism, Friedrich Adler, marxism, SDAP, terrorism, Trotsky
Kernel of truth
Jack Conrad regrets in the CPGB podcast on ‘SWP rebellion and feminism’ that he has “not heard of any feminist movement raising radical demands for working class women”. If that is true, how thorough was his research? There exist socialist and Marxists feminisms, to name but two schools which speak of class almost incessantly. Even […]
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Tags: cpgb, feminism, jack conrad, marxism, swp
A report from the Laurie Penny vs. AWL debate on 27th Jan 2011 in central London “If you have come to see a bloodbath, you’re in the wrong place”, announced Alliance for Workers Liberty member Ed Maltby. No worries Ed, I didn’t expect that. After all, various […]
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Tags: alliance for workers liberty, anarchism, laurie penny, leninism, marxism, socialist workers party, student leaders, student protests, the left
A review of ‘Freedom Rhythm & Sound – Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82′, 2 CDs on Soul Jazz Records. “No America, no jazz”, said jazz legend Art Blakey, “I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with […]
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Tags: black culture, black nationalism, black power, civil rights movement, identity politics, jazz, marxism, multiculturalism, racism
Following an incident at the SWP’s Marxism 2010 festival (reported here) Claire Fisher and myself sent a readers’ letter to the SWP paper, Socialist Worker. We had the faint hope that honesty and solidarity would prevail over apparatchik attitudes and our letter would get printed. Initially, one Socialist Worker journalist expressed (feigned?) interest in our […]
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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, marxism, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, the left
A report from the SWP’s ‘Marxism 2010′ Festival by Claire and Zuri – published in Weekly Worker. Claire: I’m writing as a member of the SWP. Attending Marxism has always been enjoyable for me – the opportunity to listen to debates within a left forum can be inspiring and help foster the belief that we […]
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Tags: communist party of great britain, macho insecurity, marxism, marxism 2010, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, unite against fascism
