Ten years of struggle for the world revolution – Lessons and prospects
Communist INternational – 1919-1929
Category: History
The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece
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.
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
On This Day, 28th August 1844, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met in the Le Café de la Régence in Paris
“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
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
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…
REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE
Seven years ago, on 14 August 2013, the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa square and slaughtered more than 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian opposition had been demonstrating outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo for 47 days when security forces attacked at around 6am on 14 August 2013. Security forces shot indiscriminately into the crowd, set fire to the tents people had gathered in and threw tear…
Film – “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!”
Life in the Toronto Branch of the League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977 Click on picture below to see the Film “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” is an unprecedented, 93-minute historical film documenting the rise and fall of a revolutionary political group whose youthful members waged campaigns that profoundly altered Canada’s political landscape. During the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, as members of the League for Socialist Action (LSA), several hundred highly disciplined activists led Canada’s antiwar movement against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, and exposed Ottawa’s financial and diplomatic complicity…
‘Not By Politics Alone’ by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Life. George H. Doran Publishers, New York. 1924.
06/25/2023 Revolution’s Newsstand First published in Pravda on July 10, 1923. ‘Not By Politics Alone’ by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Life. George H. Doran Publishers, New York. 1924. This simple thought should be thoroughly grasped and borne in mind by all who speak or write for propaganda purposes. Changed times bring changed tunes. The pre-revolutionary history of our party was a history of revolutionary politics. Party literature, party organizations—everything was ruled by politics in the direct and narrow sense of that word. The revolutionary crisis has intensified to a…