Workers' Liberty 14, July 1990

Forum: Poll tax; Trotsky on Zionism; Hitler, Stalin, and art; and symposium on the nature of the Stalinist states

Click here to download pdf. Workers' Liberty 14 Forum section How not to fight the poll tax; Trotsky on Zionism; Hitler, Stalin, and art. A symposium on the nature of the Stalinist states: Martin Thomas; Stan Crooke; Duncan Chapple, Pete Keenlyside, and others; Sean Matgamna. The contributions on the nature of the Stalinist states from Martin Thomas and Sean Matgamna are below. The other items from this Forum are currently available only on pdf. "Deformed capitalist states" Martin Thomas The revolutions which created state-monopoly industrialism were all made in under-developed capitalist...

James P Cannon: 1890-1974

Click here to download pdf. A tribute and critique, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the main figure in the US Trotskyist movement for many decades by Sean Matgamna.

Eric Heffer, Christian Socialist

Before entering Parliament in 1964, Eric Heffer had been a socialist and trade-union activist for almost 30 years. He discussed his experiences and ideas with John Bloxam and John O'Mahony. Click here to download pdf ; and an excerpt is online below. Do you think there is a lack of ethical firmness in the labour movement now? I'm thinking, for example, about leaders who talk publicly about what is good for their careers, even when what is good for them is not what is good for the labour movement - open, obviously unashamed careerists, who scarcely bother even to fake. If you look at the early...

Anti-Semitism and the Left: an Open Letter to Tony Cliff [1988]

Click here to download pdf . Dear Cliff: The present nightmarish reawakening of the furies of Judeophobia in Eastern Europe demands of honest socialists whose commitment to the destruction of Israel puts them in an attitude of comprehensive hostility to all but a handful of the Jews alive in the world today that they look at their own political features in the mirror of these events. After Hitler, anti-semitism disguised itself, and drew new nourishment from the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East which had been intensified by the Holocaust. It was a doctrine that dared no longer...

How Trotskyists debated Palestine before the Holocaust

Click here to download pdf . In this article Robert Fine looks at working-class socialist views from the late 1930s on Palestine. The road towards the bloody debacle of 1948 — when half a million Arabs were driven out as the Israeli Jewish state established itself in war against invading Arab armies — was already clear then. Nazi persecution, and curbs by countries like Britain and the US on Jewish immigration, pushed the Jews towards Zionism and the Zionists towards anti—Arab chauvinism; Zionist advance, and the desperation of Arab peasants driven off their land and jobless, pushed the Arabs...

Albert Einstein explains why he was a socialist

Click here to download pdf. "The oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society. The members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties financed or influenced by private capitalists. Moreover, private capitalists control the main sources of information (press, radio, education)." - Albert Einstein Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the question from the point of...

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