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Roger Silverman: Introduction [to the New Edition of Ted Grant’s The Menace of Fascism—What It Is and How to Fight It ]
[From the new edition of the pamphlet, 1978] The republication of Ted Grant’s classic pamphlet The Menace of Fascism comes at a timely moment. Written in 1948 when the relics of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were attempting to regroup their battered forces in the grim “austerity” days of the postwar Labour Government, its republication today…
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CWI European Manifesto for a Socialist Europe
[18 March 1999, English version of the pamphlet] EU and the Euro/EMU: Created by and for the Bosses How many times have we heard that ‘the good times’ are just around the corner? Nearly seven years ago, at a special European Union EU job summit in Edinburgh, Europe’s leaders declared ‘war on unemployment’. The ink…
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Bob Labi: Marxism and the Nicaraguan Revolution
[Militant International Review, No 27, September 1984, p. 12-20] Arising out of the Autumn 1983 issue of the Militant International Review, which was dedicated exclusively to the revolutionary process in Latin America, we are pleased to see that there has been quite a lot of discussion among our readers. One of the issues which has…
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9. The Proletariat and its Leadership
[Final Part of the Discussion Documents „World Perspectives“, 25 June 1974] The last six decades have seen the movement of the masses towards revolution in country after country, and continent after continent. It has been a period of revolution and counter-revolution unexampled in history. No other epoch in history can show a like movement of…
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Ted Grant: Marxism against Sectarianism
[June 1981, Reprinted in Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Summer 1985. It was wrong to label women’s liberation, black liberation or gay liberation as middle class or liberal issues. Not the issues, but the approach of several groups is middle class or liberal] In his document submitted to the International Forum, comrade GM raises a number…
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Resolution of the R.C.P. Conference on the Soviet Union
[Workers International News, Vol. 6, No. 9, p. 267-269] Conference reaffirms the basic programmatic conceptions of the Fourth International as they relate to the Soviet Union, to the dual nature of the system of society in the USSR as a transitional regime between capitalism and socialism and which therefore has both capitalist and socialist forces…
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Bill Hunter: Stalinism in Czechoslovakia
[Workers International News, Vol. 7, No. 5, June 1948, p. 1-10] The recent events in Czechoslovakia had a profound effect both on the international relationships between the Great Powers and on the working class movement. An analysis of the events are important for an understanding of the role of the Stalinist Parties. Even a cursory…
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Bill Hunter: The IS and Eastern Europe
[Internal document of the Revolutionary Communist Party, 1949] The resolution of the IS entitled “The Evolution of the Countries in the Buffer Zone”, and submitted to the last IEC gives no satisfactory answer to what are some of the major problems facing our movement. It seems that a desire to hang on at all costs…
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Thematisches Verzeichnis CWI und Vorgeschichte
Trotzkismus – Theorie Ted Grant: Programm der Internationale [1970] Lynn Walsh: Leo Trotzki: 1879-1979 [Militant Nr. 477, 2. November 1979, S. 8 und 9] Lynn Walsh: Trotzkis Ermordung [Militant International Review, Nr. 20, August 1980, S. 10-22, Nachdruck in Socialism Today, No. 49, August 2000] Lynn Walsh: Einleitung zu Lenins „Aprilthesen“ [Inqaba ya Basebenzi, Oktober…
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[Ted Grant:] Programm der Internationale
[1970, Bearbeitung einer deutschen Übersetzung von 1980] Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe Dieses Dokument behandelt Vorgeschichte und Entwicklung der Vierten Internationale und zeigt insbesondere deren theoretischen und politisch-praktischen Niedergang nach Trotzkis Tod auf. Dieser Niedergang fand seinen organisatorischen Ausdruck bekanntlich in der Zersplitterung und im Zerfall der Vierten Internationale. Von ihr ist heute nur noch eine…