LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, The article on “Democracy, et cetera” in the September 'Labour Affairs' helps to put Fascism in its historical context. In political discourse today it is treated as a transcendental source of evil that can be related to any situation irrespective of time and place and therefore becomes a meaningless … Continue reading Democracy et cetera
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Was The Soviet Union “A Failed World State”?
(A Reply To Remarks In Labour Affairs, September '26) The Russian Revolution was envisaged in the first instance by its creator as a preliminary to an international Socialist Revolution against Capitalism. Socialist Revolution was seen by Lenin as having been made possible, even inevitable, in the immediate future, by developments within German capitalism during the War. These developments … Continue reading Was The Soviet Union “A Failed World State”?
Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths
Lenin as Peacemaker Marxist Guilt? The Black Book as Unreliable Source Junk Politics About China The Meaning of Responsibility - A Wider Project? Was World War Two Unavoidable? Wider Reading Lenin as Peacemaker World War One was the biggest mass killing in Europe since the Thirty Years War. Much bigger than the combined Revolutionary and Napoleonic … Continue reading Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths
An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
John ClaydenMy father Harry Clayden was born in 1905 his mother my grandmother was born in the poor house where her mother , who was a servant girl , was incarcerated. My grandmother later married dad's father who was a carter who died in a flu epidemic just before the first world war . At … Continue reading An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
Your Party, Our Party, a Party for the Many
By Gwydion M. Williams A New Hope? The Road to the Liverpool Convention Incidentals in Liverpool What Sort of Party?’ ‘Not Invented Here’? Soft Leninism: an Argument of Trotskyists World-Changing Leninists, But Not Here Back to the Liverpool Convention Things I’d Have Liked To Say The Wider World A New Hope? The Road to the Liverpool Convention … Continue reading Your Party, Our Party, a Party for the Many
The Mixed Economy and Dogmatic Individualism
Ordinary Britons have been victims of a fraud that began in the 1980s. Started before many of today’s voters were even born. Thanks to tight control of the popular media by the very rich, a reversion to 19th century capitalism was sold as the only option. Liberal critics speak vaguely of a Western failure after the … Continue reading The Mixed Economy and Dogmatic Individualism
Coming of Age at the End of History
Review of “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” by Lia Ypi. Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier (June, 2022) By Michael Murray Dictionary definition of foot soldier: “…a dedicated low level follower." In this issue: Review of “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” by Lia Ypi. … Continue reading Coming of Age at the End of History
