Marxist theory
Friedrich Engels: the Che Guevara of his day
Review by Alex Miller
Bolivia's vice-president on the course of revolution
By Álvaro García Linera, vice-president of Bolivia
Translation, notes and introduction by Richard Fidler
Che Guevara's final verdict on the Soviet economy
By John Riddell
Some more comments on Peter Taaffe's Cuba book
[This article first appeared in the Democratic Socialist Party's internal discussion bulletin The Activist - Volume 10, Number 9, October 2000.]
The following article was written at the request of Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, as an initia
Michael A. Lebowitz: Socialism is the future -- Build it now
By Michael A. Lebowitz
Three books on the life and thought of the `red terror doctor’
Reviews by Alex Miller
Karl Marx: A Biography
By
David McLellan, Palgrave Macmillan
4th
Edition 2006
487
pages, paperback
Individual versus social solutions to global warming
By Terry Townsend
John Bellamy Foster on the global financial crisis
‘Nobody knows where the toxic debt is buried and how much there is’
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review, a prominent political journal established by the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy in the 1940s.
Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as an environmental socialist.
He has proven that Karl Marx was a radical ecologist in his book, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature.
Foster is interviewed by Peter Boyle for Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal and Green Left Weekly. It was conducted during the Climate Change Social Change conference in Sydney, April 11-13, 2008.
The written version of the interview is available at Green Left Weekly.
Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four: Critiques of Stalinism `from the left’?
Review by Alex Miller
This essay is the result of a re-reading of George Orwell’s two most famous novels. Both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have acquired the status of textbooks, and are routinely used in schools to demonstrate to children the inherent dangers of social revolution. It is time for a reappraisal.
The ``Centenary Edition’’ of George Orwell’s Animal Farm contains a preface written by Orwell for the first edition (Secker and Warburg, 1945) but never published, together with a preface that he wrote specially for a translation for displaced Ukrainians living under British and US administration after World War II.
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Michael A. Lebowitz: La jornada laboral capitalista y la jornada laboral socialista
By Michael A. Lebowitz
[Translation by J. Duckworth]