Vladimir Lenin

Must The Priest Believe in God?

"Must The Priest Believe?" — in God! — would, I thought, as my eye first flicked over the programme page, be a satire or a skit. But no, it was a serious edition of Joan Bakewell's "Heart of the Matter", provoked by the case of a Church of England priest, Anthony Freeman, unfrocked for publishing a book explaining why he no longer believes in God. He doesn't want to be sacked either — he thinks he should continue as a priest! The exclamation mark embodies my own incredulity — but possibly my ideas about these things are old-fashioned. There are quite a number of such Church of England priests...

Must The Priest Believe in God?

"Must The Priest Believe?" — in God! — would, I thought, as my eye first flicked over the programme page, be a satire or a skit. But no, it was a serious edition of Joan Bakewell's "Heart of the Matter", provoked by the case of a Church of England priest, Anthony Freeman, unfrocked for publishing a book explaining why he no longer believes in God. He doesn't want to be sacked either — he thinks he should continue as a priest! The exclamation mark embodies my own incredulity — but possibly my ideas about these things are old-fashioned. There are quite a number of such Church of England priests...

Must The Priest Believe in God?

"Must The Priest Believe?" — in God! — would, I thought, as my eye first flicked over the programme page, be a satire or a skit. But no, it was a serious edition of Joan Bakewell's "Heart of the Matter", provoked by the case of a Church of England priest, Anthony Freeman, unfrocked for publishing a book explaining why he no longer believes in God. He doesn't want to be sacked either — he thinks he should continue as a priest! The exclamation mark embodies my own incredulity — but possibly my ideas about these things are old-fashioned. There are quite a number of such Church of England priests...

Why Marxists Fight Against Political Religion

“The wind that shakes the barley”Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain :1. From Hollywood To Rome A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain 2: Church and State A Rift in the Religious Iron Curtain 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion The truth about Marxism and religion 96. The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain

Why Marxists Fight Against Political Religion: the Catholic Church

James P Cannon Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon (1947) The Catholic Church 1: From Hollywood To Rome (1951) The Catholic Church 2: Church and State The Catholic Church 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Max Shachtman Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion (1949) Appendices The truth about Marxism and religion The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” (1967)

Trotsky's Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

Where Were Lenin's Children?

What is happening in the USSR now was symbolised in one scene in a Moscow street last weekend. A group of monarchists stood by, singing the Tsarist national anthem, as the statue of Jacob Sverdlov, the Bolshevik who signed the death warrant for the murdering ex-Tsar Nicholas II, was pulled down. Socialists who respect Lenin and Sverdlov, who believe that the Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the great liberating moments in humanity's history, and that men like Sverdlov were heroes of human liberation, will nevertheless cheer the pulling down of their statues in cities all across the USSR...

IS and Ireland, Czechoslovakia, and the national question (Easter Conference, 1969)

Introduction (2014) The following text, part of the discussion on Ireland in IS (now called SWP) in 1968–69, attempted to expound the basic Marxist principles on national questions, as the Trotskyist Tendency (forerunner of AWL) understood them. It was moved at the Easter 1969 conference of the organisation. The previous August, the Russians and the armies of their satellite states had invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the liberal Stalinist regime there. For forgotten reasons, our resolution took the form of an amendment to a resolution from the Glasgow branch. The Trotskyist Tendency, like...

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