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A party that really stood for hope and change
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Michael Kandelaars
09 March 2010
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The Black Panthers stood for socialism, and the revolutionary overthrow of US capitalism. Their militant approach offered much more to Black Americans than the failed promise of the Obama presidency.
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The lies they tell about the Russian revolution
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Corey Oakley
19 February 2010
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The Russian revolution may have taken place nearly a century ago, but attacks on it continue.
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The 1959 Cuban Revolution
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Louise O'Shea
29 January 2010
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On the eve of 1959 a revolutionary band of guerillas, led by Fidel Castro, took the reigns of power in Cuba.
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Hammer of justice, bell of freedom: the 1960s folk revival
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Janey Stone
01 June 2009
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It
might be hard to believe that in 1964 folk singing was seen as subversive. One
night, police turned up at the loft of Melbourne folk singer Brian Mooney,
alerted by the sound of "mass folk singing" inside. Having taken names and
addresses, the police, cultured then as now, suspiciously asked for the name of
the perpetrator of a nude painting hanging on the wall. Informed that the
artist was Modigliani, the officer insisted: "Get his address too."
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Stonewall 1969: a generation on fire
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Liz Ross
01 June 2009
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The
year was 1969. Liberation and protest movements had sprung up everywhere. From
the anti-Vietnam War campaign, to Black Power, Women's Liberation and left-wing
political groups, millions were taking a stand, fighting to radically change
the world they lived in. And among those millions were lesbians and gay men,
activists who'd been involved in all the campaigns and now wanted a voice of
their own, a voice for their own liberation.
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Lenin and the 1916 Easter uprising
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09 February 2009
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In 1916 fierce debate ranged among those socialists who had opposed the First World War about whether to support or oppose the right to national self-determination.
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When anarchism was put to the test
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Josh Lees
14 October 2008
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The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky compared the theory of anarchism
to an umbrella full of holes: useless precisely when it rains. The truth
of this insight was forcibly demonstrated when anarchism failed the test of the
Spanish Revolution.
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The long march of the Chinese Trotskyists
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Liam Ward
28 April 2008
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In 1949 Mao's Red Army
marched into Beijing, promising a new socialist order, free and
democratic. The People's Republic of China, however, quickly
revealed itself as a brutal society, ruled by a new class of
exploiters. But these modern emperors
haven't had everything their way. Resistance regularly erupts, and
to this day China is home to one of the most heroic traditions of
genuine revolutionary socialism that the world has known - the
Chinese Trotskyists.
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The truth about the Russian revolution
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Sandra Bloodworth
03 March 2008
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The Russian revolution of 1917 is one of the most contested events in world history. Sandra Bloodworth debunks the myth of the revolution as a Bolshevik coup and argues that the role of workers and peasants in Russia show that a world without war and exploitation is possible.
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The Gulag Trotskyists
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Liz Walsh
14 January 2008
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The story of the Russian Trotskyists who resisted Stalin's rise to power on the ashes of the 1917 revolution is an enormous inspiration. |
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1968: the year that changed the world
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Sandra Bloodworth
14 January 2008
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"The Sixties" have an almost
mythical power which still captivates imaginations around the world. The media and conservative writers
paint images of long-haired hippies, smoking pot and listening to
psychedelic music, or they dismiss the protesters as spoilt student brats who
eventually came to their senses and moved on to settle down in
respectable society. But the Sixties was a time of mass struggles that presented a real challenge to the capitalist system.
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The Paris Commune of 1871
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Tess Lee Ack
02 May 2007
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The Paris Commune was the world's first workers' government. Marx described it as "the product of the struggle of the producing against the appropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work out the economic emancipation of labour." |
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The rise of Stalin: What really happened in Russia?
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Sandra Bloodworth
26 April 2007
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"We have got the dictatorship of the proletariat! ... I rub my hands and chuckle with glee. May the day soon come when the proletariat of Western Europe does the same."
Morgan Philips Price, a Manchester Guardian journalist stationed in Russia in 1917, wrote these words to his wife. He didn't have to wait long.
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The great French revolution
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Tess Lee Ack
25 April 2007
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The French Revolution was a new dawn for humanity. It is one of the main events that shaped the modern world, creating a radically different society. |
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The Martin Luther King you don't see on TV
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Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
12 April 2007
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Martin Luther King maintained that civil rights laws were empty without “human rights” – including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.
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