Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
By In Defence of Marxism   
Monday, 05 January 2009
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg This month marks the 90th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two outstanding revolutionary leaders of the German working class. To commemorate that tragic day we are republishing Rosa Luxemburg's last article "Order Prevails in Berlin", Karl Liebknecht's famous speech against voting the war credits in the German parliament in 1914 and his 1915 leaflet "The Main Enemy Is At Home!".
 
Lenin and Trotsky on Rosa Luxemburg
By In Defence of Marxism   
Monday, 05 January 2009
We are also publishing Trotsky's appraisal of the two revolutionaries, written just after they were murdered in 1919, and "Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg", his defence of what Rosa Luxemburg really stood for, against Stalinist slanders, as well as an extract from Lenin's "Notes of a Publicist" in which he defends Rosa Luxemburg against the reformists.
 
[Audio] The Spanish Revolution
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 05 January 2009
[Audio] The Spanish RevolutionThe part played by the Bolsheviks in the history of the Russian revolution of 1917 proves the importance of the role of leadership. The history of the Spanish revolution proves the same thing, but in a negative sense. In September Alan Woods spoke to the Socialist Appeal Northern Weekend School in Britain, which had as its general theme 'The Class, the Party and the Leadership', on those events which took place in Spain 70 years ago.
 
En los albores de un nuevo año
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 05 January 2009
Spanish translation of At the dawn of a new year (January 2, 2009)
 
Parem o massacre sobre a Faixa de Gaza
By Walter Leon   
Monday, 05 January 2009
Portuguese translation of Stop Israel's massacre in Gaza! (December 30, 2008)
 
!أوقفوا المجزرة الإسرائيلية في غزة
By Walter Leon   
Monday, 05 January 2009
Arabic translation of Stop Israel's massacre in Gaza! (December 30, 2008)
 
At the dawn of a new year
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 02 January 2009
At the dawn of a new year The year 2009 is a year of many anniversaries. As they will soon be reminding us, this is also twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That was a time when the capitalists and their spokespersons felt triumphant. They announced the end of Communism, the end of Socialism, even the end of History. But now it is clear to all that their predictions were false. What collapsed 20 years ago was not socialism or communism but only a bureaucratic and totalitarian caricature of socialism. The collapse of Stalinism was a great historical drama, but in retrospect it will be seen by history as only the prelude to an even greater drama: the collapse of capitalism, which is already being prepared. Alan Woods looks at the prospects for 2009.
 
Republic Occupation in the US: "Window of Opportunity"
By David May & Paul Poposky in the U.S.   
Friday, 02 January 2009
Republic Occupation in the US: On Thursday morning, December 11th, the 250 workers occupying the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago had something to be proud of: they had fought back against one of the biggest banks in the U.S. and had won all of the severance pay owed to them. The workers unanimously agreed Wednesday evening to approve a deal reached between negotiators from their union and Republic's creditor, Bank of America, prompting an end to the six day occupation. While the struggle did not result in keeping the factory open and jobs in place, the UE workers were able to win an important partial victory by winning the money owed to them.
 
[Ted Grant Archive - Update] - Russian Workers in Britain barred from joining Trade Union by Russian Delegation
By Ted Grant in 1947   
Friday, 02 January 2009
Ted GrantIn 1947 a group of Russian workers over in Britain on a training programme were banned by the Soviet authorities from joining a British trade union, leading to conflict with the British workers who had fought for a closed shop. The Soviet bureaucracy could not tolerate the fact that these Russian workers might pick up a few ideas about basic trade union rights, which caused harsh debates within the British Communist Party.
 
Stop Israel's massacre in Gaza!
By Walter Leon   
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Stop Israel's massacre in Gaza!Two years after the Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces indiscriminately slaughtered over a thousand Lebanese civilians in the quaintly-titled Operation Just Reward, Israel has turned its attention to Gaza, in the form of Operation Cast Lead. Stripped of its innocuous-sounding name, this operation becomes a lot less palatable: according to Palestinian medical sources, nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed, including numerous women and children. Israel’s targets have included police stations (which are unsurprisingly situated in densely-populated areas), the headquarters of a Hamas-owned satellite television channel, and the Islamic University, Gaza’s only higher education institution.
 
'Traditional' Christmas arrests of labour activists in Iran
By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network   
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network During the past week the Iranian regime has arrested several labour activists. They join a long list of imprisoned Iranian labour activists who have committed no crime other than try to form trade unions (or other labour organisations) and to defend the pay and working conditions of workers. We urge all trade unionists, socialists, and labour and human rights activists to send protest emails/letters to the Iranian authorities.
 
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan workers banned from working in Iran
By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network   
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Iranian Workers' Solidarity NetworkEarlier this year the Iranian regime's authorities announced that thousands of Afghan workers who needed work permits to work in Iran, because they do not have passports, will not be allowed to work from the beginning of the Iranian month of Shahrivar. It is the duty of the Iranian working class to defend its Afghan brothers and sisters, especially as the regime's shrinking oil revenue will make it search for more scapegoats to let it off the hook.
 
[Audio] Christianity - Capitalist or Communist?
By In Defence of Marxism   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Presentation in the Temple, window in the church of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford. By paullew on Flickr (detail)With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings on December 4th by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister, debated Fred Weston, co-editor of In Defence of Marxism and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency.
 
If Sharks Were People
By Bertolt Brecht   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Little fish, organise“If sharks were people,” Mr K. was asked by his landlady’s little girl, “would they be nicer to the little fishes?”
 
Questions From A Worker Who Reads
By Bertolt Brecht   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Gizah PyramidsWho built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
 
Introduction to the Indonesian edition of The Permanent Revolution
By Alan Woods   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Leon TrotskyThe Permanent Revolution by Leon Trotsky is one of the most important Marxist books of the last century. The International Marxist Tendency is producing an Indonesian edition of this book, scheduled to be published in January. We publish here the introduction written by Alan Woods.
 
Vietnam style napalm bombs used against Indonesian peasants
By In Defence of Marxism   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Last week Indonesian police brutally attacked peasants defending their land rights, even using napalm bombs to destroy their homes, leading to the death of one child and leaving many injured. We issue this Solidarity Statement with the People of Suluk Bongkal Village and call on others to do the same.
 
Art and the Crisis of Capitalism - A Review of “The Mona Lisa Curse”
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 22 December 2008
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, by Damien HirstIn his The Mona Lisa Curse, the Australian art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. His programme was a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that it subordinates itself to money-making and capitalist market economics. It condemned the British artist Hirst for "functioning like a commercial brand" and destroying any true understanding of art in the public's mind by placing importance on the price tag alone.
 
The German Revolution suffers its first defeat
By Niklas Albin Svensson   
Monday, 22 December 2008
Rosa LuxemburgAfter 4 years of intense warfare, the German workers and soldiers ended World War I in November 1918. The workers and soldiers had taken power into their hands but also handed it over to the very same people who so shamefully supported the war in 1914. These Social Democratic leaders organized the first defeat of the German revolution.
 
Venezuela: Marxists intervene at the factory gates of SIDOR
By Patrick Larsen in Puerto Ordáz   
Friday, 19 December 2008
venezuela-marxists-intervene-at-gates-of-sidor-thumb.jpgOn Tuesday, December 16, a delegation of fifteen workers from the CMR (Revolutionary Marxist Current) and FRETECO, visited the SIDOR steel factory in Guayana, state of Bolívar, Venezuela. The visit was a spectacular success and marks yet another milestone in the growing influence of the CMR in the Venezuelan workers movement.
 
Venezuela: Manifesto of the Revolutionary Marxist Current on the constitutional amendment
By Revolutionary Marxist Current (Venezuela)   
Friday, 19 December 2008
Venezuela: Manifesto of the Revolutionary Marxist Current on the constitutional amendment. This manifesto was published by the CMR in response to Chavez's proposed constitutional amendment. The amendment abolishes the limit on how many times the president can stand for re-election. The CMR argues that it is time to move from speeches to deeds when it comes to the building of socialism in Venezuela and calls for Venezuelan revolutionaries to take up the struggle in the Bolivarian movement.
 
[From HoV] Bourgeois press attacks on HOV Germany and left Social Democrats who signed a HOV petition
By Hands Off Venezuela   
Friday, 19 December 2008
The activities of HOV in Germany were highlighted last Sunday in newspaper and online articles issued by the Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ), a major mouthpiece and "central organ" of the ruling class and a sort of equivalent of the The Times in Britain.
 
[Ted Grant Archive - Update] - Labour Must Go Left or Go Under—Says Gallup Poll
By Ted Grant in 1958   
Friday, 19 December 2008
Ted Grant In 1958, after 7 years in power, Tory rule was shaken by recession. The class character of Tory policies was clear for all to see. At the same time the right-wing orientation of Labour under Gaitskell was frustrating the ranks of the labour movement. Growing criticism was revealed by a Gallup Poll. Ted Grant explained that workers were prepared to fight the Tories but the Labour leaders were not willing to give a lead. The most class-conscious elements should therefore organise in opposition to Gaitskell's policies.
 
The abyss facing Nigeria in the face of the growing world crisis of capitalism
By Fred Weston   
Thursday, 18 December 2008
The abyss facing Nigeria in the face of the growing world crisis of capitalism (In the picture: Adams Oshiomhole)Just a few months ago all the talk was of Nigeria avoiding the effects of the world crisis of capitalism, the idea being that the local economy was not as integrated into the world financial markets as the more advanced economies. Then suddenly things started to change...
 
USA: Students Occupy the New School!
By Karl Belin in the U.S.   
Thursday, 18 December 2008
USA: Students Occupy the New School!Yesterday a communique reached the Campus Antiwar Network national discussion e-mail list announcing the occupation of the New School University's cafeteria by students both from the New School, as well as from other universities in the surrounding area from New York and New Jersey. The students have occupied the cafeteria, claiming it as an autonomous students center.
 
[Video] Spanish Revolution: 70 Years Later
By Socialist Appeal (U.S.)   
Thursday, 18 December 2008
[Video] Spanish Revolution: 70 Years LaterJohn Peterson, National Secretary of the Workers International League in the U.S., presenting at a forum on the Spanish Revolution at May Day Books in Minneapolis, MN on November 13th, 2008.
 
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