The Lenin wars: Over a Cliff with Lars Lih
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Lenin with journalist Lincoln Eure in the Kremli
Lars Lih: Falling out over a Cliff
Click HERE to follow the entire debate on Tony Cliff's Lenin. For more discussion on revolutionary organisation, click HERE.More articles by Lars Lih are available at http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/500.
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Remarks on the 1905 Congress and the 1912 conference of the Russian Social Democratic Worker Party (RSDWP)
By Lars T. Lih
Paul Le Blanc: Revolutionary organisation and the ‘Occupy moment’
Occupy Pittsburgh, October 15, 2011.
Russia: The people are not silent, but what comes next?
Massive rally in Moscow in support of honest elections, February 4, 2012.
China: Elite rule faces rising social and working-class struggles
[For more discussion on China's economic and political development, click HERE.]
By Kevin Lin
February 11, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- China’s transition to state-led capitalism over the past three decades has generated numerous social struggles against the state and capital. With China’s ascent in the capitalist world economy, the social struggles inside China not only have a significant domestic impact, but increasingly international ramifications.
As China celebrates the Year of the Dragon, it is an opportune time to critically review the situation for social struggles and their prospects for the future.
State and elite politics
Letter from Zimbabwe: Court dismisses acquittal application by the '6 Egyptians'
Action is support of the charged Zimbabwean activists, Fremantle, Western Australia.
The collapse of 'communism' in the USSR: Its causes and significance
By Doug Lorimer
Doug Lorimer is a member of the National Executive of the DSP. This article is based on a report adopted by the 14th National Conference of the DSP, held in Sydney, January 2-6, 1992.
©Resistance Books 1997; first published 1992, second (revised) edition 1997
Contents
James P. Cannon (1955): The I.W.W.
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. Text from the Marxist Internet Archive. For more on the IWW, click HERE.
The Bold Design
An Organization of Revolutionists
The Duality of the IWW
Vincent St. John
The long Detour
The Wobblies As They Were
The Turning Point
The Heritage
Michael Lebowitz on John Holloway's 'Change the World without Taking Power'
‘Global sustainability’ wilts in South Africa’s political hot air
By Patrick Bond, Durban
Romania: Mass protests then and now
Protesters shout as a background banner reads "Freedom, Early Elections" during an anti-government rally in Bucharest, January 24, 2012.
By Rupen Savoulian
February 15, 2012 -- Antipodean Athiest, submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal by the author -- Back in 1989, Romania was gripped by mass protests, led by miners, against the corrupt and authoritarian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. The protests in Romania were part of the generalised "Velvet Revolution" against the dictatorial, bureaucratised, deformed workers’ states in Eastern Europe.
John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney: Global stagnation and China
[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal urges its readers to consider tak