Workers' Liberty 2/1, September 2001

Dick Whittington's heir —The Truth About Mayor Ken Livingstone

Submitted by Anon on 25 August, 2007 - 12:57 Author: John Bloxam

Robbed of the official Labour candidacy by Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone defied the New Labour leaders and in the summer of 2000 was elected Mayor of London. No sooner was Livingstone installed as Mayor than he created a Tory-Liberal-New Labour “popular front” government for London.

The most “left-wing” plank in his election platform had been opposition to Blairite plans to privatise London Underground.

In an age of barbarism

Submitted by cathy n on 27 January, 2015 - 4:34

This 2001 publication features an array of articles, letters and debate, many of which are helpful to understanding contemporary issues on the left.

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Why did Cliff slander Shachtman?

Submitted by dalcassian on 9 August, 2013 - 1:35

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I: Why did Cliff traduce Shachtman? (Workers' Liberty 62)
II: Was Stalinism the new barbarism? (Workers' Liberty 66)
III: Attitude towards the Communist Parties (Workers' Liberty 2/1)

I: Why did Cliff traduce Shachtman?

"Apparatus Marxism" and the Balkans war

Submitted by martin on 30 May, 2011 - 6:25

'Apparatus Marxism', Impoverished Twin of 'Academic Marxism'

Submitted by Anon on 23 August, 2007 - 12:59 Author: Sean Matgamna

“You who have really done something, must have noticed yourself how few of the young literary men who attach themselves to the Party take the trouble to study economics, the history of trade, of industry, of agriculture, of the social formations… The self-conceit of the journalist must therefore accomplish everything and the result looks like it…" — Friedrich Engels

Ours Is An Age of Barbarism — Why?

Submitted by Anon on 20 August, 2007 - 2:31

“Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement” — Vladimir Lenin

According to the classic account by Lewis H Morgan, “barbarism” is in human history the stage between savagery and civilisation; between the stage of “savage” peoples who are hunters and casual gatherers on one side, and on the other “civilised” people who have developed cities.

Is Cuba Socialist?

Submitted by Anon on 29 July, 2007 - 12:50 Author: Paul Hampton

This book is a pseudo-debate between Peter Taaffe of the Socialist Party and CWI (formerly Militant) in Britain and Doug Lorimer of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).

It is also, I guess, an attempt to check the recent rash of Castro-worship in the Scottish Socialist Party, with whom Taaffe maintains a strained relationship.

Who are the anti-capitalists?

Submitted by Anon on 30 September, 2001 - 3:31

The anti-capitalist movement exploded onto the world political scene in Seattle two years ago. There is very little material available on the development of the constituent parts of the anti-capitalist movement. Many commentators say Seattle “just happened”.
In fact the movement seems to have different roots in different parts of the world. In the USA three streams converged at Seattle.

China and independent working-class politics

Submitted by Anon on 30 September, 2001 - 3:14 Author: Paul Hampton

This article argues that a renewed socialism for the 21st century will be based on independent working class politics. It uses the “Third Camp” as a formula for summing up this essential element for Marxist history and for current intervention in the class struggle. China represents a fertile example in both these respects.

Sylvia Pankhurst and Democracy

Submitted by Anon on 30 September, 2001 - 2:48 Author: Susan Carlyle and Sean Matgamna

The development of industrial society threw masses of women into the factories. Whole industries, like the cotton industry, had a majority of women and children workers, existing in terrible conditions of super exploitation; as Marx put it in Capital, “Robbed of all that had previously been considered necessary for life".(1)