The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Guevara, a revolutionary in the making The Motorcycle Diaries, the recently released film on Ernesto Che Guevara, is an exciting adaptation of Guevara’s writings of the same name. Also based on Alberto Granado’s memoirs Travelling With Che Guevara, Che’s travelling companion, the director Walter Salles was able to paint a graphic picture of a revolutionary in the making.
The Ta Power Document: An Essay on the History of The Irish Republican Socialist Movement A remarkable document written by a Republican Socialist, Ta Power, while in gaol in Ireland in the mid-Eighties. The significance of the conclusions drawn by this young thinker and fighter, who made a careful study of Marxism whilst imprisoned, will not be lost on our readers. Above all the demand that politics and ideology must play the central role in the struggle for national liberation and socialism, in the building of a revolutionary party of the working class, will come as a surprise to many, especially knowing the period and the circumstances in which this document was written. With an introduction by Gerry Ruddy.
Launch of the Marxist International Review. The Importance of Marxist Theory “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.” Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)