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 religion [...]
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, who [...]
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 urgency [...]
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 leadership in [...]
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 Islamic Republic [...]
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 [...]
Manifesto Against Labour
Gruppe Krisis
1. The rule of dead labour
A corpse rules society - the corpse of labour. All powers around the globe formed an alliance to defend its rule: the Pope and the World Bank, Tony Blair and Jörg Haider, trade unions and entrepreneurs, German ecologists and French socialists. They don’t know but one slogan: jobs, jobs, [...]
