Karl Marx

Why Marxists Fight Against Political Religion

“The wind that shakes the barley”Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain :1. From Hollywood To Rome A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain 2: Church and State A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion The truth about Marxism and religion 96. The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain

Why Marxists Fight Against Political Religion: the Catholic Church

James P Cannon Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon (1947) The Catholic Church 1: From Hollywood To Rome (1951) The Catholic Church 2: Church and State The Catholic Church 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Max Shachtman Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion (1949) Appendices The truth about Marxism and religion The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” (1967)

Not Marx – Marx and Engels

To mark the Engels centenary, Tom Willis takes a look at the theoretical revolution carried through by both Marx and Engels in 1844-45 Download PDF

Politics, polemic and Marxism: Engels' Anti-Dühring

Introduction by Sean Matgamna "Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." V. I. Lenin A century and a half after the publication of the Communist Manifesto, Marxists are faced with redeveloping, virtually from the ground up, a mass working-class socialist movement of the sort which one hundred years ago our predecessors thought they could point to as the towering achievement of the previous 50 years. Of course, there are powerful labour movements, and not only in the old countries of capitalism such as Britain, where the trade unions possess a great latent power...

Negroes in the US Civil War: Their Role in the Second American Revolution [CLR James, 1943]

An indispensable contribution to the understanding of the role of the Negro in American history is a study of the period between 1830 and 1865. In this article we treat the subject up to 1860. The basic economic and social antagonisms of the period embraced the whole life of the country and were fairly clear then, far less today. The system of chattel slavery needed territorial expansion because of the soil exhaustion caused by the crude method of slave production. But as the North developed industrially and in population, the South found it ever more difficult to maintain its political...

Make Marx and Engels free!

The Marxists Internet Archive has said it will delete the entirety of the Marx and Engels Collected Works on its site by 1 May, which ironically is International Workers’ Day. The publishing company, Lawrence and Wishart, which was founded in 1936 through a merging of the Communist Party's press and a family-owned anti-fascist publisher, is claiming copyright infringement, stating that it cannot afford to have the collection still provided as a free resource. The very material that is being removed argues against private property in such matters. It is absurd to think that this company will...

A debate on "Tony Benn and the lies the left tells itself about Ireland" (1988)

Geoff Bell: There is nothing wrong in reassessing Marxist interpretations, but where this has led Socialist Organiser as far as this particular exercise is concerned is to the other side of the class divide. This is illustrated in the January edition of the magazine Workers' Liberty and an article therein by Sean Matgamna. This is entitled "Ireland: lies the left tells itself". A more fitting headline would have been "Ireland: examples of the lies the right tells itself". For what has now emerged from what at first was a sloppy and impressionistic analysis is the one which stands four square...

The Basis of Workers’ Democracy

Ciliga’s purpose in writing the last chapter of his book, The Russian Enigma (published as an article in the August issue of Politics) was to prove that it was Lenin who laid the foundation for the betrayal of the Russian Revolution by Stalin. To prove his thesis he relies on certain specific policies adopted by Lenin. To answer Ciliga fully it would be necessary to take up in detail the specific policies he cites and to arrive at a conclusion as to their correctness or incorrectness on the basis of a thorough analysis of all the factors that prevailed at the time they were adopted. Such an...

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