The rich senators, having killed Tiberius, found that that was not the end of the matter. Powerful class forces had been unleashed from below. Such was the strength of the movement that the senate was forced to accept at least a partial implementation of Tiberius’ reforms. But this was only a means of controlling the masses and eventually overturning those very same reforms. The destruction of the small free peasants and the concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy was an unstoppable process.
The struggle of Mexican workers in defense of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) has become one where at stake is not just this single union, but the position of the entire Mexican labor movement. It poses questions that go well beyond the realms of the Electricians’ Union. Here Ruben Rivera explains what is required to fight back and push the whole movement forward.
Up to half a million people turned out in Mexico City to demonstrate their support for the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) on October 15. In spite of all the government and media campaign, the workers were not intimidated. On the contrary, they came out with even greater force. This marks a major turning point in the situation in Mexico.
UK Postal workers are out on a national two-day strike over management plans in effect to destroy the Royal Mail. Picket lines are being staged at sites up and down the country. The bosses, backed by Lord Mandelson, who is looking to hit back at the union over his failed attempt to privatise the mail, have refused to negioate.
It might have started out as a strategy, but the ICTU leadership’s profound belief that they can wrest some concessions out of Cowen and Lenihan would be better described as an illusion or perhaps a death wish. We’ve pointed out many times that in a slump social partnership is like the partnership between a cat and a mouse. But at least in Tom and Jerry the mouse was a master of tactics.
It was only a few months ago that public anger against the banks and an unprecedented crisis of capitalism seemed to have an almost revolutionary tone. Public consciousness and official opinion seemed to have shifted decisively to the left. Yet this rage seems not to have effected any political change at all and somehow the public debate (i.e. the editorial line of the press and the rest of the media) has swung far to the right. But the anger and opposition to bank bailouts has not disappeared, it has only been driven underground because it is no longer on the media’s agenda and the lack of any political change has obviously disappointed protestors.
The past experiences of the Nepalese Maoists, and the failure of their attempts to carry out a revolution by “stages” has led to an internal debate in which some of its leaders have drawn the conclusion that the “national road” has not produced the desired results and that what is required is an internationalist position.
This summer The Red Spark [Rato Jhilko - see photo], a journal of the Communist Party of Nepal published an article by Baburam Bhattarai, which stated that, “Trotskyism has become more relevant than Stalinism to advance the cause of the proletariat”. This is the result of concrete historical experience that has revealed the real essence of Stalinism and vindicated the ideas of Leon Trotsky, in the case of Nepal in particular of the theory of the Permanent Revolution.
One thousand workers have been on strike for five months in the Tanta Linen company in Egypt. We have received an appeal for solidarity please take up this case in your trade union or workplace.
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Para cualquier trabajador está más que claro que ARENA dejó el país es una situación sumamente lamentable llena de grandes y profundos problemas que no tienen una sencilla solución, no siempre se es lo suficientemente consiente de la magnitud del problema. El país está en ruinas, esto no es un adjetivo exagerado sino la más clara realidad.
La gran ofensiva guerrillera "hasta el tope" del 11 de Noviembre de 1989 fue la más grande acción militar del FMLN durante la guerra civil, concentró el 70% de sus fuerzas militares en la capital y sus alrededores. Aun se siente el miedo y el odio de clase cuando la burguesía y sus representantes se refieren a ella, dando la imagen de una acción asesina por parte del frente y ocultando cuál fue el actuar de ellos contra los barrios obreros. Unos meses antes pensaron que el FMLN estaba acabado y su derrota vendría en poco tiempo, les duele en el alma haberse equivocado y haberse visto obligados a ceder en una serie de aspectos para llegar a los acuerdos de paz de enero de 1992.
El escritor británico dijo que EEUU busca atacar a Venezuela desde Colombia / Consideró que los oligarcas no han sido tocados totalmente en sus intereses, y es parte de las tareas pendientes de la Revolución / Considera correcta la posición del Presidente Chávez de preparar a la población para la defensa de la soberanía
"Alan Woods es uno de los pensadores marxistas de mayor reconocimiento en el mundo. Es un firme defensor de la Revolución Bolivariana. En esta entrevista le propusimos abordar una serie de aspectos político-teóricos con el fin de que sirvan de disparadores de un debate que contribuya a profundizar el proceso revolucionario." Entrevista publicada en Ciudad CCS, el diario gratuito de la Alcaldía de Caracas.
PGB/JS._ El gobernador del estado Barinas, Adán Chávez asistió al foro sobre “la crisis mundial del capitalismo y las acciones del imperio contra la revolución bolivariana”, dictado por el escritor británico Alan Woods, quien se encuentra de visita por segunda ocasión en la entidad llanera.
La crisis del capitalismo está sacudiendo cada rincón del mundo. Ahora Austria, considerado en el pasado como el país de la paz social y el "diálogo", ha sido golpeado por una inmensa protesta estudiantil que está atrayendo un apoyo cada vez más amplio entre los trabajadores, que también están mostrando signos de radicalización.
New from Wellred USA! The first US edition of Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods. This monumental 500+ page study of the history of growth and development of Bolshevism demolishes the myths of both Stalinist and pro-capitalist historians of the Russian Revolution. Read More
The Pakistan Revolution of 1968-69 was one of the greatest revolutionary movements of the 20th century. It is rich in lessons and Lal Khan's book is an outstanding summing up of these lessons. It deserves most careful study by every revolutionary.Read More
A new book has come out recently, written by Maziar Razi of the Iranian Marxists' Revolutionary Tendency, with an Introduction by Alan Woods. It is a collection of articles on the crisis of the Iranian regime and the perspecti...
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The crisis capitalism has entered globally is having a deep impact on the real living conditions of billions of workers all over the world. With this comes a growing consciousness among ordinary working people and youth that something is seriously wrong with this system, that this cannot be the way human bei...
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This book by Alan Woods is a polemic against a well-known (in Latin American terms) intellectual Heinz Dieterich. Dieterich claims to have invented a new "Socialism of the 21st Century" and much else into the bargain. He offers a great deal of advice to those involved in the Venezuelan Revolution dressed...
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Wellred Publications is pleased to announce the publication of a new book on Trotsky's famous theory of the Permanent Revolution, written by John Roberts. This work critically analyses and compares Lenin and Trotsky's writings in relation to the theory of the Permanent Revolution and defends that theory against revi...
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This book, by Ted Grant and with a preface by Trotsky's
grandson Esteban Volkov,
covers the key developments
in Russia since the Revolution right up to the present day. It
traces the elimination of
workers' democracy, the rise of Stalinism, the advances of
planned economy and the
eventual collapse of the bureaucratic sy...
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In 1918-33 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well documented. Less well known are the events that preceeded Hitler's rise to power. Rob Sewell gives a picture of the tumultous events - the 1918 revolution, the ...
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This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than thir...
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There have been many books and potted histories of Russia, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either an historical "accident" or "tragedy". Or it is portraye...
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It is now more than thirty years since the publication of the first edition of this work. It was written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, who was a leading theoretician of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Johnstone had published a reappraisal of Leon Trots...
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This book represents an important contribution to our understanding of the Iranian revolution. This work will be particularly useful in the West where it is universally believed that the revolution of 1979 was a movement of Islamic fundamentalists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini to push Iran b...
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This text was originally written by Alan Woods as a part of the book Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, but eventually the book became too long and this part had to be left out. Therefore this history of philosophy is published here for the first time. With chapters on: Do we Need Philosophy?, The ...
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The comrades in Pakistan were just about to publish a new book on Kashmir when the devastating earthquake hit a month ago. The comrades have been hard at work on their solidarity and relief operations. Given the current crisis in Kashmir, they have decided to go ahead with the publication of the book. Over the weeks we will pu...
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There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However Rob Sewell’s book is different. The purpose of this history of British trade unionism is not only to recite the wrongs inflicted on working people, or simply to describe their heroic struggles. It is an attempt to draw out the lessons of the events that helped ...
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For over 60 years, Ted Grant has been the foremost figure of Trotskyism in Britain and internationally. In the post-war period, the effects of world boom, the policies of right wing Labour Party reformism and the degeneracy of Stalinism combined to make a massive onslaught against the ideas of Marxism. While Grant's contemporaries ...
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This book, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods published in 1995 coinciding with the centenary of Engels' death, defends the validity of the philosophical writings of Marx and Engels. It does this by showing that the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century confirm the very essence ...
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المكسيك: خطاب هام لآلان وودز بمقر نقابة SUTIEMS
Virar à Esquerda e Reatar com o Socialismo nos Estados
Vidreiros de SP realizam vitorioso Congresso
Venezuela - Alan Woods: “Dobbiamo fare una rivoluzione nella rivoluzione”
یونان: شکست تاریخی حزب بورژوازی - حرکت تودهای به چپ
بعد عشرين عاما على سقوط جدار برلين
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