Workers' Liberty 25, October 1995
The Place of Marxism in History
Submitted on 19 January, 2010 - 10:54
'He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth', Goethe.
'Does Marxism have a future ?' One way to answer this question is, paradoxically, to look to its past. In this excellent little book, based on a series of lectures given to militants of the Fourth International, Ernest Mandel's aim was to "apply the materialist interpretation of history to Marxism itself
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John Maclean - biography. Part 2
Submitted on 3 April, 2009 - 19:25Maclean put forward a number of other justifications for his new separatist line.
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John Maclean - biography. Part 1
Submitted on 3 April, 2009 - 19:14The Glasgow socialist John Maclean (1879-1923) devoted most of his adult life to the overthrow of capitalism.
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Bosnia still needs solidarity
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The Left and Max Shachtman Part 1
Submitted on 2 April, 2009 - 21:56
Two distinct currents emerged after 1940 from the Trotskyism of Trotsky. The “official” “orthodox” Trotskyism of James P Cannon, E Mandel, Michel Pablo, Gerry Healy, Ted Grant, etc.
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An open letter to Tony Benn: "The main enemy is Serb imperialism"
Submitted on 2 April, 2009 - 21:43Dear Tony Benn,
The problems with the rally of the “Committee for Peace in the Balkans” on 18 September began with the title: “Stop the NATO bombing”.
Tony Benn on Bosnia: "The main enemy is NATO"
Submitted on 2 April, 2009 - 21:40"Whatever the deficiencies of the former Yugoslavia, it was held together without bloodshed.
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Marxism and the Irish revolution
Submitted on 13 March, 2009 - 14:50
The striking thing about this collection ("The Communists and the Irish Revolution", edited by Rayner Lysaght) is that one of the key documents reproduced here "The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination", 1915 — one of Lenin's most important texts on the national question — has been bowdlerised so that the meaning of what Lenin wrote is transformed into its very opposite.
The words in square brackets below have been excised from Lysaght's text:
