‘The workers’ and peasants’ government… calls upon all the belligerent peoples and their government to start immediate negotiations for a just, democratic peace. By a just or democratic peace, for which the overwhelming majority of the working class and other working people of all the belligerent countries, exhausted, tormented and racked by the war are … Continue reading The Many Debts We Owe to Lenin →
The debate on the meaning of AAP’s victory in Delhi and the Hindu idiom that its spokespersons have adopted continues as indeed on the implications of its refusal to play the electoral game in the way the BJP was intent on setting it up. But to keep our perspective right, we need to remember … Continue reading Imagining an Antifascist Coalition Today →
Reuters reported late October 28 that “far-right” lawmker Jair Bolsonaro won the Presidential elections in Brazil. What is more interesting about this election victory is why he won.
Reuters reports:
This is a modified version of the article that was published earlier in The Wire (T)he economic dialectic is never active in the pure state; in History, these instances, the superstructures etc – are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or, when the Time comes, as his pure phenomena, to … Continue reading ‘Revolution against Das Kapital’ and the ‘Lonely Hour of the Economy’
Slashing prices, offensive festivals and nuclear Harvey + this day in history w/Lenin shot and our song of the day by Warm Digits on your Morning Monarchy for August 30, 2017.
Long before most people in Europe or North America were familiar with the word ‘jihad’, left-wing terrorism ravaged much of Western Europe.
Groups like West Germany’s Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof Gang, America’s Symbionese Liberation Army, Italy’s Red Brigades, Spain’s First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, Portugal’s FP-25, Action Directe in France and the IRA in Britain were left wing terrorist groups who committed numerous atrocities including targeted killings, bombings, kidnappings and torture on a wide scale.
One hundred years ago this month, Vladimir Lenin arrived by train in St. Petersburg after a decade in exile. Today, only 33 percent of millennials are familiar with Lenin. Of those who are familiar, 25 percent view him favorably. We need a history lesson.
I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist party. In neo-McCarthyite times such as these, it is always helpful to restate this fact. Many Russians are also not now, nor have they ever been members of the Communist Party.
