Workers' Liberty 9, January 1988

"In the 1980s the world capitalist system has moved into uncharted waters... International credit has expanded hugely. As with credit generally, this expansion has given capitalism more flexibility - and a greater risk of sudden slumps..." Click here to download pdf .

Two articles by Trotsky on the national question. One, a critique of the Third Duma (1907-12), concluding: "The bourgeoisie of the dominant national does not want equality of national rights. The bourgeoisie of the oppressed nation is not able to fight for equality of rights. The national question... falls with its entire weight to the proletariat... "For workers the Russian Empire is alien fetters placed upon them by history... We stand here, on this ground sown by crimes... we wish to cleanse it of blood and filth and make it fit for the peaceful cohabitation of peoples..." Two, an imagined...

Stan Crooke disputes Ian McCalman's support for calls for a Scottish Assembly. Edward Ellis disputes Belinda Weaver's argument that movie-making has deteriorated. Bob Fine, Tom Rigby, and Clive Bradley dispute arguments dismissing the COSATU union federation in South Africa in favour of the NACTU federation. Liam Conway argues that Trotsky's "permanent revolution" idea is more "applicable" today than Clive Bradley allowed for in his article in Workers' Liberty 7 . Click here to download pdf .

Martin Thomas reviews "Europe without America", by John Palmer. Clive Bradley reviews "Revolutionary Rehearsals", published by the SWP's Bookmarks. Stan Crooke reviews "Ireland, the case for British disengagement", by Conor Foley. Neil Stonelake reviews "Community Architecture", by Nick Wates and Charles Knevvit. Belinda Weaver reviews "State of the Art", by Pauline Kael. Rhodri Evans reviews "Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: the Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912", by Lance Davis, Robert Huttenback, and Susan Gray Davis. Gerry Bates reviews "Leninism Under Lenin", by Marcel...

Biographer Patricia Romero ("Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical", Yale University Press) is bewildered by Sylvia Pankhurst's support for the Bolsheviks. But Sylvia knew what she was doing... Click here to download pdf .