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Women’s popular movement and the Shining Path: The contradictions of...
MFP Hair jpg.jpg Please enjoy this original piece I recently wrote, about women's liberation and the Peruvian Shining Path guerrilla movement. Any feedback and constructive criticism is welcome....
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On the anniversary of the so-called "Velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia1989
1989_17listopad_sametova__revoluce_pce__ilustracni_denik_clanek_solo.jpg The following contribution of the Class War Group is neither a chronology of events in Czechoslovakia, 1989, nor a description...
View ArticleThe anti-liberation movements
This is an edited version of a talk given by veteran communist Alan Lipman who participated in drawing up the Freedom Charter in 1955, about why he left the Communist Party and the ANC, subsequently...
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The break-up of the WRP: from the horse’s mouth - Simon Pirani
Healy.jpg An account by one of its former activists of the breakup of the UK Trotskyist group Workers Revolutionary Party following widespread sexual abuse by its leader, Gerry Healy in the mid-1980s....
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Understanding left cults (SWP, SP, Spiked, WRP) - a reading list
animals-looking-up.jpg Selected reading on cultlike behaviour of left-wing parties in the UK. Whatever happens to the Socialist Workers Party in the present crisis over rape allegations, non-party...
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“The real enemy?” Why we should reject left unity as a concept
commies-party.gif A number of pieces have been written recently on “unity” amongst the left and the ways we can achieve that. What follows are the reasons I reject left unity as a notion and the kind...
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‘Feminism is a dirty word’. What would Marx and Engels think today? - Camilla...
Rape is ape.jpg This article takes ‘dinosaur marxists’ to task for refusing to treat rape as a political issue. The author looks at events in the SWP, RMT and across the British left in the light of...
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SWP crisis: some analysis, some thoughts
sexism.jpg The UK Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is in deep crisis after rape accusations and faction fights have ended in the leadership reimposing some 'order' , and oppositionists leaving...
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The defeat of the Italian left in the recent elections
rivoluzione_civile_Ingroia-586x217.jpg The defeat of Rivoluzione Civile (Civil Revolution, a newly-established party) in the recent elections was much worse than expected. The coalition led by Antonio...
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How the NKVD framed the POUM - Jesús Hernández
poum-copia.jpg The following text is taken from the memoirs of Jesús Hernández, published in 1953 in Mexico as Yo fuí un ministro de Stalin (I Was a Minister of Stalin). The memoirs have never been...
View ArticleMbokodo: Security in ANC camps, 1961-1990 - Stephen Ellis
1994 text by Stephen Ellis in African Affairs about events in the African National Congress, particularly the 1984 mutiny in ANC camps in Angola. Ellis has since written a book on this topic, which...
View ArticleA house divided: The state of the trade union movement in South Africa
Benjamin Fogel on the attempt by the South African Communist Party to take over the trade union movement in South Africa. COSATU is in the midst of the biggest crisis in its 27-year history. This...
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Bring Fire to the Castle: crisis, militant social democracy, insurrection,...
Occupy-Wall-Street-Anti-B-007.jpg An exploration of the 2008 global crisis and responses. This article looks at militant reformism and the role of existing means and channels of settling disputes in...
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Soviet Union, China and other Stalinisms - reading guide
posterussr002-87.jpg Further reading guide about "state socialist" countries. Unlike many books on Stalinist societies, these texts emphasise struggles from below: SOVIET UNION Aufheben, 'What was the...
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Latin Lib News podcast now online!
chavezprocession.jpg A new podcast discussing events in Latin America from a Libertarian Communist perspective. This first episode looks at the rise and legacy of Hugo Chávez. He may have died but his...
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An extra cynical look at the People's Assembly
the-peoples-assembly-390x248.jpg Some thoughts on the People’s Assembly. Dissecting its claims to be the birth of a movement and looking at what is really required to take on austerity and, more...
View ArticleTrotskyism on the edge - on the SWP crisis
A few more notes on the crisis in the UK Socialist Workers Party (SWP) that seems to have entered new territory. read more
View ArticleOn the edges of Trotskyism - some of the ones who left the SWP
Some notes on the IS Network, formed by ex-members of the SWP, and on the ideas of Richard Seymour, one of them. read more
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Khamsin #07: Communist parties in the Middle East
Khamsin-07.jpg Issue of Khamsin from around 1979 mostly about various communist parties in the Middle East. read more
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Kronstadt 1917-21: The fate of a soviet democracy - Israel Getzler
Kronstadt-sailors-1917.jpg This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February 1917 to the uprising of March 1921. This book focuses attention on Kronstadt's...
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