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[This is a copy-edited and slightly expanded version of the text in Solidarity replying to Lysaght.]
A dozen years on from the “Good Friday Agreement” (GFA) things in Northern Ireland are far from settled. The recently threatened breakdown of the power-sharing executive was avoided. But the Good Friday system is far from stable.
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A pamphlet bringing together polemics, debates and exchanges between Workers' Liberty and anarchist comrades in 2011. To buy online (£5) click here.
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This article by Ruah Carlyle looks in depth at the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, where anti-fascists successfully fought to stop the police clearing a route for Oswald Mosley's fascist march.
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Earlier contributions
Discussion pieces from inside AWL (collated in pdf format):
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By Sean Matgamna
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Download whole pamphlet as pdf (12MB). The pamphlet was published in November 1987, on the 70th anniversary of the 1917 revolution.
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On Sunday 9 January 1905 — according to the calendar that was then in use in Russia, which was 13 days behind that in use in Europe — troops in St Petersburg opened fire on a peaceful procession of workers, led by a priest, Father Gapon. The demonstration was marching to deliver a humble petition to the Russian aristocratic ruler, the Tsar.
Hundreds were killed.
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Read online (below), or download pdf (see "attachment").
Who was Lenin? He led the workers of the Tsarist Russian Empire to make the most profound revolution in history in 1917. He was the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party, without which the workers would have been defeated.
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Download pdf (see "attachment"), or read online.
Timeline
Introduction
1. The risen people: Eastern Europe after the revolutions
2. What’s in the coffin at the funeral of socialism?
3. Lies against socialism answered
4. Stalin’s system collapses
5. Why socialists should support the banning of the CPSU
6. The triumph of unreason: market madness in the ex-USSR
7. What was the Bolsheviks’ conception of the 1917 revolution?
8. Why the workers want to restore capitalism
9. In the beginning was the critique of capitalism
10. An open letter to Ernest Mandel
11. Trotsky and the collapse of Stalinism
12. And where were Jacob Sverdlov's sons?
Sources
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A collection of articles on solidarity with workers in Eastern Europe before the revolutions of 1989, and on those revolutions and the prospects they opened up
