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October 10, 2020

Teoiric Number 5 Summer 1976

Issue number 5 of Teoiric, the theoretical journal of the (Official) Republican Movement, published in the summer of 1976 featuring: Solzhenitsyn serves capitalism Jim…

October 8, 2020

The 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis: An Analysis

Preface to Online EditionThis pamphlet was originally published ten years ago to mark the fortieth anniversary of the 1969 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis which,…

October 5, 2020

War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century

Die Gedanken der herrschenden Klasse sind in jeder Epoche die herrschenden Gedanken (The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling…

July 14, 2019

The Party and the Ballot Box

The role of elections in socialist strategy The Legacy of the Republican Congress In 1934, in the shadow of a rising fascist threat in…

October 7, 2018

The Foundation of the DDR

This week marks the two important, and not at all separate events, in both German and socialist history: The 69th anniversary of the the…

October 3, 2017

The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia

Two years after the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, Petrograd, home of the revolution, was a devastated city.  Severe food shortages had prompted the…

October 3, 2017

Internationalism before the Internet

When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, their goal was not only, or even primarily, to transform the Russian Empire. They aimed to shake…

October 3, 2017

Centennial Perspectives: The July 1917 Phase of the Great Russian Revolution

My father, the eminent Russian-born physical chemist Eugene I. Rabinowitch, founder and long-time editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, was a student at…

October 3, 2017

Lenin and the Revolutionary Nature of His Vanguard Theory

Introduction The Miliband-Poulantzas debate in the 1970s,[1] while at times quite personalised and cantankerous as well as at times downright tendentious, also had a…

October 3, 2017

From Petrograd to Brussels: Reflections on Revolutionary Strategy then and now

The centenary commemorations of the October Revolution have, as yet, been fairly low key. Labour movement activists with a political bent and, of course,…

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