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Below is the transcript of a talk titled “Marxism, socialist strategy, and the party” by Gilbert Achcar, which was delivered to the South African initiative, Dialogues for an Anti-capitalist Future [[https://anti-capitalist.online]. Here, Achcar traces conceptions of the party from Marx to the (…)
Julia Cámara is an historian based in Zaragosa. She helped organize the mass feminist strikes and mobilizations in the Spanish State on March 8 in recent years and is a member of Anticapitalistas. Here, Cámara describes the theoretical and historical concepts that have guided Anticapitalistas in (…)
Enzo Traverso interviewed by Vincent Martign about the current state of the international left and its future prospects.
Vincent Martign - How do you see the situation of the left in France today?
Enzo Traverso - Both in France and elsewhere, the situation of the left is bad but not (…)
Recent discussions with European comrades, whom I have known for many years and whose experience in the struggle goes back many more years, have stirred a desire in me to draw together some political thoughts long swirling and at least partially coming together in my mind.
Working in Europe (…)
After decades of decline, left parties are in the midst of a renaissance. But without a commitment to social roots in the working class, twenty-first century “digital parties” could decline just as their predecessors did.
Peter Mair began his posthumous 2011 book Ruling the Void with a blunt (…)
A. Why Is a Political Organization Necessary?
1. The recent mobilizations occurring in Latin America and in the world confirm what Lenin wrote in 19141: “Without organization the masses lack unity of will” and without that they cannot struggle against the “powerful terrorist military (…)
This piece was originally written for the special issue 150 of the Spanish journal Viento Sur, “1917-2017 Rethinking Revolution” dedicated to political strategy and anti-capitalist alternatives.
Josep Maria Antentas teaches Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has (…)
On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the Spanish-language Viento Sur journal asked me to write an article on the “party question” (Rousset 2017). This is an expanded version of that piece. This version focuses far more on the present than on the past – and (…)
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. By: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal,
and Hilary Wainwright. Merlin Press, 2013. 324 pp., paperback, £14.95
Originally published in 1979, Beyond the Fragments (BTF) was an intervention in the left by three British socialist-feminist (…)
In the 1960’s Ernest Mandel analysed the bureaucracy of the labour movement. 50 years later his thoughts are introduced into the debates about the Danish Red Green Alliance. A growing number of party full-timers make it relevant.
With the success of Enhedslisten (Red Green Alliance – RGA) (…)
This paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, the 10th of November, 2013 in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970’s and 1980s”.
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Previous contributions spoke of the activity of (…)
How did Communist parties handle issues of internal discipline and democracy in Lenin’s time? An intense discussion now under way within the British Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) raises issues related to the nature of internal democracy in the Communist International (Comintern) during 1919–23, (…)
Jane Kelly sets the record straight on how democracy is guaranteed and minorities’ rights are protected in the Fourth International.
In Alex Callinicos’ article, ‘France: anti-capitalist politics in crisis’ , he tries to analyse the reasons for the crisis in the French Nouveau Parti (…)
Presentation to be giving at the educational conference of the ISO (USA) Socialism 2011, July 2-3 weekend.
It is always worth examining the question of Marxism and organization because, if we would like to be organized Marxists who effectively struggle for socialism, we have a responsibility (…)
Old-school radical history focused on the debates between radical leaders, and ignored what militant workers were thinking and doing.
In this presentation at the new study group From Struggle to Socialism , scholar Charlie Post flips that old method upside-down.
Introduction
When first (…)
The whole of the left in Britain, from those few still in the Labour Party to far left and revolutionary groups is in crisis. For twenty-five years, since the defeat of the Miners’ strike of 1984-5 we have been mostly on the defensive and the class struggle, measured in strike actions, or TU (…)
November 23, 2009 — How do you build socialism in the First World countries right now? Of course, we are part of a world movement for socialism, including the Third World. We can learn a lot from recent and current experiences in left regroupment and party building that are happening around the (…)
Napkins are hardly indispensable to a meal but they are one of those luxurious fripperies that you might indulge yourself with on special, more formal occasions. That gives them something in common with the left’s attitude to democracy and it’s a subject that’s been bugging me for a while. (…)
The latest issue of International Socialism, a quarterly journal of the Socialist Workers Party in Great Britain, contains Alex Callinicos’s Revolutionary paths: a reply to Panos Garganas and François Sabado.
In the previous issue, Sabado-a member of the NPA in France-had made a number of (…)
The responses in the previous issue of International Socialism by Panos Garganas and by François Sabado to my article “Where is the Radical Left Going?” are very welcome . As their articles bear witness, the condition of the radical left in Europe is quite diverse. Though I have disagreements (…)
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