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,…
October 3, 2017 Lenin’s ideas and the development of the Workers’ Party The following article by Sean Garland is the introduction to the third edition of ThinkLeft, the Workers’ Party’s theoretical magazine, which focused on the…
October 3, 2017 Great October Socialist Revolution: Impact on the World and the Birth of Internationalism The following piece by Andre Vltchek was written for the third edition of ThinkLeft, the Workers’ Party’s theoretical magazine, which was focused on the…
October 3, 2017 The Soviet Economy after the New Economic Policy The following article is taken from the third edition of ThinkLeft, the Workers’ Party’s theoretical magazine, which focused on the October Socialist Revolution, to…
October 30, 2016 Review of Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh For a long time, neo-classical economics has been the economic orthodoxy. Neo-classical economics is a patchwork of theories all with a general aim of…
June 28, 2014 Catholic Marxism At first glance Marxism and Catholicism have little in common: one is thoroughly materialist in outlook, the other a prime defender of idealism. Whereas…
