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Written by Ted Grant (June 1943)
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:54 |
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This important document was written by Ted Grant in June 1943. In it he explains the processes that resulted in the degeneration of the Third International, which was founded in the heat of the Russian Revolution under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky. For decades the ideas of Stalinism represented a huge obstacle to the ideas of genuine Marxism in the Labour Movement internationally. In this article Ted Grant explains the processes that lead to the degeneration and eventual disbanding of what once was the “World Party of Socialist Revolution”.
The Third International has been officially buried. In the most undignified and contemptible fashion it would be possible to conceive, it has passed off the stage of history. Hurriedly and without consultation with all the adhering parties, not to speak of the rank and file throughout the world, without any democratic discussion and decision, as the result of the pressure of American imperialism, Stalin has perfidiously abandoned the Comintern.
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Written by Fightback
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:06 |
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Following a wide scale and carefully orchestrated police operation aimed at disrupting ‘dissident republican’ activity and two nights of rioting in Lurgan, it would appear that the north of Ireland’s social peace has not been in such a fragile state since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement eleven years ago. These were the sort of scenes that the British state and the leaders of Sinn Féin and the Unionist parties all told us were a thing of the past.
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Written by John Pickard
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 13:28 |
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November of this year sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's famous book, Origin of the Species. The beautifully simple idea embodied in his book - evolution by natural selection - was a revolutionary departure with profound scientific and philosophical implications.
Following the footsteps of Copernicus and Galileo three hundred years earlier, Darwin battered an enormous, irreparable breech in the walls of Fortress Theology and for that reason the book has been the source of intense debate right up to the present day. Darwin sought and found an explanation - a mechanism - for the evolutionary changes in species, which other scientists were beginning to suspect, using a purely materialist method, without any recourse to God or metaphysics.
Charles Robert Darwin in 1868
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Written by David May (US Socialist Appeal)
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:35 |
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The 1934 Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, led by the Trotskyists of the Communist League of America (the forerunner of the US Socialist Workers Party - as distinct from SWP.ie), was a decisive moment in the US labor and socialist movements. During the years preceding the strike, few would have expected the upsurge that took place in 1934.
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Written by John Pickard
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:45 |
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In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, we are reprinting this article by John Pickard which reviews Engels contribution to the understanding of human development and specifically his pamphlet The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man.
Engels' pamphlet, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, written in 1876, but not published until 20 years later, contained many brilliant insights into the theory of human development. Against a background of very scarce fossil or other evidence, his application of the method of dialectical materialism to the problem allowed him to provide a consistent and coherent explanation of human development well in advance of the majority of his scientific contemporaries; an explanation that remains to this day the main pivot of any Marxist view of human development.
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