September to December, 2005: Lessons of Russia's revolution
Issue 28
The labour aristocracy and working-class politics
By Jonathan Strauss
Contents
Dimensions of the composition of the labour aristocracy
Skilled workers in the labour aristocracy
The bureaucratisation of the labour apparatus and opportunism
The labour apparatus and the labour bureaucracy
The labour aristocracy and the labour bureaucracy
The labour aristocracy and the `lower strata' of the working class
Opportunism and preparation of the proletariat for revolution
Proletarian tactics under the domination of monopolising capitals
Model for the Third World? The Chilean Economy since Allende
By Renfrey Clarke
Renfrey Clarke is a longtime member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in the Australian Socialist Alliance.
Notes on the Bolivarian revolution
by Roberto Jorquera
Since late March, Roberto Jorquera has been the Green Left Weekly correspondent in Venezuela, where he has also travelled extensively to help organise the first solidarity brigade from Australia. This article was completed on May 19.
Contents
Not a Europe of citizens: The EU on the road to military power
By Winfried Wolf
Russia awakes: social protest 100 years after the beginning of the First Russian revolution
by Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kolganov
By Armando Hart
Armando Hart is the former minister of culture of Cuba. Our translation largely relies on a CubaNews translation by Ana Portela.
These thoughts are intended as a tribute to all revolutionaries, without exception, who suffered the great historical drama of seeing the socialist ideas of October 1917 frustrated. We write this with admiration and respect for the Russian people, who were the protagonists of the first socialist revolution in history and who defeated fascism decades later under the leadership of Stalin. The same Russian people, 130 years before, defeated the military offensive of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Fundamentally, I have the experience of fifty years of working for socialist ideas in the beautiful trenches of the Fidel and Martí-inspired Cuban Revolution, that is to say, the first revolution of Marxist orientation that triumphed in what has become known as the West.
The USSR: The thwarted transition
by Ariel Dacal Diaz
Ariel Dacal Diaz is chief editor in the politics section of Social Sciences Publishers, a leading Cuban publishing house. Our translation relies largely on a translation by Ana Portela for CubaNews.
The 1905 revolution and its lessons
by Doug Lorimer
Links 28: Editor's introduction
Lessons of Russia's revolution
Earlier this year, socialists marked the 100th anniversary of the first Russian revolution. For revolutionaries at the beginning of 1905, the historical "model" of previous proletarian revolution—from which to draw both positive and negative lessons—was the Paris Commune of 1871. The 1905 revolution greatly enriched Marxism's storehouse of revolutionary theory.