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C.L.R James: The historical development of the Negro in the United States (1943)
This article by Trinidad-born socialist C.L.R. James, written under the pseudonym J.R.
Cuba: The legacy of the October 1962 Missile Crisis
By Ike Nahem
The 'Marx party' -- Karl Marx's revolutionary household
The revolutionary legacy of Bhagat Singh: the 'Che Guevara' of South Asia
September 28, 2012, marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of South Asian revolutionary Bhagat
M.N. Roy.
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By John Riddell
September 25, 2012 -- Johnriddell.wordpress, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- The newly published proceedings of the Communist International’s Fourth Congress, Toward the United Front, makes it possible for any socialist activist or independent researcher to make the acquaintance of a wide spectrum of revolutionaries of the 1920s, both prominent and obscure.[1] No guide or interpreter is needed.
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By John Riddell
September 3, 2012 -- Johnriddell.wordpress.com/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In his review of my edition of the Communist International’s Fourth Congress (1922),[1] Ian Birchall warns against a “scriptural approach” to the Comintern record, but also affirms that studying it “can be of great value”. Where can this value be found? A controversy among Marxists over this year’s elections in Greece points our way to an answer.
Paul Le Blanc: The great Lenin debate -- history and politics
Lenin "favoured an organisation that functioned like a democratic, cohesive, activist collectivity".
By Lionel Bopage
A speech made on August 30, 2012, at a vigil to remember the disappeared in Sri Lanka on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
August 30, 2012 -- Groundviews -- I am honoured to have been asked to speak at this vigil, to remember the disappeared in Sri Lanka on this important occasion of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
Sri Lanka is party to diverse declarations and conventions of the United Nations on human rights. Therefore, the main responsibility of protecting peoples’ rights lies with the government of the day.
South Africa: The massacre of our illusions … and the seeds of something new
By Leonard Gentle, director of the International Labour Research and Information Gro
A state of affairs worth fighting for: historiography of the Spanish Civil War
By Doug Enaa Greene