Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela
Written by Alan Woods and Ted Grant Sunday, 14 April 2002 Dramatic events are unfolding in Venezuela. On Saturday April 13, less than 36 hours after a group of right-wing businessmen and army generals had assumed control, the coup collapsed in a welter of confusion. Shortly after 10 pm, interim President Pedro Carmona Estanga resigned [...]
Classes and Parties in Their Attitude to Religion and the Church
Published: Sotsial-Demokrat, No. 6, June (4) 17, 1909. Taken from Marxists Internet Archive. The debates in the Duma on the Synod estimates, then on the restoration of rights to persons who have left holy orders and, finally, on the Old-Believer communities, have provided very instructive material characterising the attitude of the Russian political parties towards [...]
Socialism and Religion
Published: Novaya Zhizn, No. 28, December 3, 1905. Taken from Marxists Internet Archive Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free� workers, [...]
The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion
Published: Proletary, No. 45, May 13 (26), 1909. Taken from Marxists Internet Archive. Deputy Surkov’s speech in the Duma during the debate on the Synod estimates, and the discussion that arose within our Duma group when it considered the draft of this speech (both printed in this issue) have raised a question which is of extreme importance and [...]
Why Revolutionary Marxists should not support Islamic fundamentalists – Part Two
By Maziar Razi — reproduced from the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency Chris Harman sides with reactionary Islamic Fundamentalists If Tony Cliff parts from the basic ideas of revolutionary Marxism and revises Trotsky’s permanent revolution, Chris Harman, by extending Tony Cliff’s deviation, sides with counter-revolutionary Islamic fundamentalists. This position potentially places the SWP [...]
Why Revolutionary Marxists should not support Islamic fundamentalists – Part One
By Maziar Razi — reproduced from the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency Introduction The question of Islamic fundamentalism has been one of the central tactical issues facing Marxists over the past few decades. In fact the origin of this dilemma and discussion dates back to three decades ago and the establishment of the [...]
Notes on May Day
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through [...]
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