Lenin
On Marxism and melodrama: An interview with Lars Lih
Lars Lih has explored the political and theoretical relationships between Lenin and Karl Kautsky.
Socialism and the workers' movement: comments on Lars Lih on the narrative of their merger
Lars Lih.
By Jonathan Strauss
The role of the united-front tactic
Australian protest against the US war on Vietnam.
The following was presented by Paul Le Blanc to the "Organising fo
Paul Le Blanc: Leninism for now
[More articles by Paul Le Blanc can be fo
"Speech by Lenin at a Rally of Workers", by Isaak Israelovitch Brodsky (1929).
Paul Le Blanc: Leninism and organisation today
[For more on revolutionary organisation, click HERE. For more discussion on Leninism, click HERE and HERE. More articles by Paul Le Blanc can be found HERE.]
By Paul Le Blanc
March 14, 2013 -- Socialist Worker (USA), posted at Links Internarional Journal of Socialist Renewal at the author's suggestion and with his permission -- I appreciate the comradely spirit of Joaquín Bustelo's contribution to the discussion ("There's no universal model of Leninism"). The issues he raises are important--from the standpoint of revolutionary politics and also from the standpoint of revolutionary history. It is possible to be wrong on one and right on the other, although I will argue that my old comrade is partly wrong on one (politics) and entirely wrong on the other (history).
‘Toward the United Front’: Recovering revolutionary memory for 21st century socialism (+ video)
Part 1.
February 16, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – On February 3, 120 socialists took part in a Toronto meeting to celebrate publication of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, available in paperback from Haymarket Books. This 1300-page volume is the seventh book of documents on the world revolutionary movement in Lenin’s time edited by John Riddell. Riddell’s address to the Toronto meeting, below, explains the purpose of the book and the publishing project. The video of the event, filmed by Left Streamed, begins above and continues below. It was moderated by Abbie Bakan, with additional commentary by David McNally, Greg Albo, Suzanne Weiss and Paul Kellogg.
The demand for shorter working hours with no loss in pay has been a key transitional demand.