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What Is Leninism? By Leon Trotsky!

September 22, 2023September 22, 2023 wisidagamage

The New International, March 1944 Leon Trotsky What Is Leninism? A Timely Excerpt from Trotsky’s New Course From The New International, Vol. X No. 3, March 1944, pp. 78–79.Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL. Leninism cannot be conceived of without theoretical breadth, without a critical analysis of the material bases of the political process. The weapon of Marxian investigation must be constantly sharpened and applied. It is precisely in this that tradition consists, and not in the substitution of a formal reference or of an accidental quotation. Least…

Mangosuthu Buthelezi – The unfiltered truth of a murderous legacy

September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 wisidagamage

Mondli Makhanya Modern South African history has seen its fair share of evil men and women, many of them linked in one way or another with the apartheid system and the security apparatus that upheld it. There were people such as DF Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd, the architects and foundation-layers of the apartheid system. In later years, there were the likes of BJ Vorster and PW Botha, who took apartheid to another level and designed dark security that formed the shield for apartheid. There were hard men such as Louis…

Retired Chilean Army brigadier takes own life after conviction for 1973 murder of Víctor Jara

September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 wisidagamage

Hernán Chacón Soto, 86, had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated homicide and 10 years for aggravated kidnapping for the assassinations of the singer and Littré Quiroga Rocío Montes Santiago – Aug 30, 2023 One of the seven former members of the Chilean military convicted of the torture and assassination of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, retired brigadier Hernán Chacón Soto, took his own life after the verdict was returned by the Supreme Court, as confirmed to this newspaper by the Ministry of the Interior. Soto, 86, was found…

Communist INternational – 1919-1929

September 12, 2023September 12, 2023 wisidagamage

Ten years of struggle for the world revolution – Lessons and prospects

The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 wisidagamage

Sean Ledwith 27 August 2023 Red Traces The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science, as Sean Ledwith describes Marx and Engels both had a lifelong interest in the ideas, events and personalities of ancient Greece. Conventional historians often like to talk about the so-called ‘Greek Miracle’ lasting from about 700-300 BCE in which many of the foundational concepts of the Western world first emerged. Pioneering developments in disciplines as diverse as architecture, drama, philosophy, poetry, political science, and sculpture were made by…

‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence.

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023 wisidagamage

Picture: Workers in Shanghai during the 1922 seamen’s strike. ‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 38. May 19, 1922. At the beginning. Formed in July, 1921 this article claims that the Karl Liebknecht Day commemorations held in Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai on January 15, 1922 it reports on were the first public manifestations of the Chinese Communist Party. Participants included some of the 500,000 maritime workers then on strike. ‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 38. May 19,…

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya – A story of an Invincible

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023 wisidagamage

On This Day, 28th August 1844, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met in the Le Café de la Régence in Paris

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 wisidagamage

“When I visited Marx in Paris in the summer of 1844,our complete agreement in all theoretical fieldsbecame evident and our joint work dates from that time.”Frederick Engels On This Day, 28th August 1844, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met in the Le Café de la Régence in Paris and, although having met a couple years before, began their lifelong friendship and revolutionary work together. As Engels noted in 1885: “When I visited Marx in Paris in the summer of 1844, our complete agreement in all theoretical fields became evident and…

The German Revolution – Part 1

August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 wisidagamage

What happened in Germany between World War 1 and World War 2? How did the Nazi party gain so much support and become the largest party in Germany? In this two part series, I will explain how a country’s attempt to become more democratic and fair ended with Hitler’s rise to power. With coup, after coup, after coup. This will be a wild ride. So Buckle up for the CRAZIEST revolution of all! The German Revolution! This video was heavily inspired by Oversimplified and Bill Wurtz (Especially his history of…

New Agenda 89: Revisiting UDF 40 years later

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 wisidagamage

Unions and the UDF A look back at the lessons of the 1980s By Devan Pillay This article traces back to the roots of the tension between the democratic-socialist future promised by the UDF in the 1980s and the independent unions who warned of the dangers of nationalist politics where liberation elites take command instead of the working class. DEVAN PILLAY considers the lessons for today of the 1980s heightened political conflict. INTRODUCTION The African National Congress (ANC), in alliance with the SA Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of…