Stalinism and Afghanistan: socialists and the 1979-89 war: Workers' Liberty 3/55
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Tracing the development of "two Trotskyisms" through from the 1940 split to the 1944 polemic between Harry Braverman and Max Shachtman. Click here to download as pdf or read online. The pagination in the pdf is correct, but, by a mishap, the pages of the printed version of Workers' Liberty 3/48, as a pull-out in Solidarity 347, are in the wrong order. Our apologies to readers. Check the printed version with the pdf, or follow this guide: Page 2 has been mistakenly swapped with page 6, and page 7 with page 11. The printed pull-out can be navigated as follows: 1: the first page, with the...
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Editorial comments on the ongoing influence of Stalinism in the British labour movement, the need for a campaign to defend the welfare state, and calling for justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Click here to download article as pdf.
How Marxists registered and learned from - or failed to register and learn from - the great expansion of Stalinism after World War Two. Click here to download pdf.
Download as pdf, or read online below. Timeline Introduction 1. The risen people: Eastern Europe after the revolutions 2. Whatâs in the coffin at the funeral of socialism? 3. Lies against socialism answered 4. Stalinâs system collapses 5. Why socialists should support the banning of the CPSU 6. The triumph of unreason: market madness in the ex-USSR 7. What was the Bolsheviksâ conception of the 1917 revolution? 8. Why the workers want to restore capitalism 9. In the beginning was the critique of capitalism 10. An open letter to Ernest Mandel 11. Trotsky and the collapse of Stalinism 12. And...
The main viewpoints summarised: contributions by Martin Thomas and Sean Matgamna from Workers' Liberty 16; by Martin Thomas from Workers' Liberty 43; by Tom Rigby from Workers' Liberty 45. The USSR was not state-capitalist, by Roger Clarke (WL44) Cliff's 'state capitalism' in perspective, by Sean Matgamna (WL 56) The USSR and non-linear capitalism, by Martin Thomas (WL59) Stalinism in theory and history, by Pablo Velasco A debate between Raya Dunayevskaya and Max Shachtman, from 1947, with an introduction by Chris Ford Review articles by Paresh Chattopadhyay and Martin Thomas on the book Class...
I agree with Eric Leeâs substantive argument (Solidarity 593) that socialists must aim to reconstruct mass politics, not just hope for better âleadersâ. But I think he gives a skewed picture of Trotskyâs 1938 declaration about âthe crisis of the leadership of the proletariatâ. Trotskyâs argument was not one about poor leadership in politics in general, for example in bourgeois governments, but a specific one about the labour movements at that time. The previous 50 years or so of educational and organising work by socialists of different sorts; of industrialisation and urbanisation; and of the...
Andrew Northall, in his reply to Jim Denham on the âAnti-Monopoly Allianceâ in Solidarity 589, writes: âJim says... the Labour Party and unions are the arena for the debates and struggles that take place within the British working-class movementâ. Really? So Black Lives Matter, Reclaim These Streets, the Sarah Everard protests, opposition to the Police Bill etc., are down to the Labour Party and the trade unions or not relevant to âthe British working class movementâ?â By contrast, Andrew writes: âThe strategy of the BRS [Britainâs Road to Socialism, the Communist Party of Britain program] is...
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