- Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
- Brinton, Maurier - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Maurice Brinton (1923-2005).
- Jacques Camatte archive - index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Jacques Camatte.
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution
A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- In Praise of Idleness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1932
More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Lenin, Vladimir - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
- Listen, Marxist!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- Marxism and organization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1934
- On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
- Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party.
- The Problem of the Democratic Opposition Organization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The basis for this proposal is an attempt to address the classic dilemma of the broad democratic opposition. In summary it is the need for a competent professional cadre to implement the changes needed, combined with the maintenance of a democratic and effective membership control of this 'elite'.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Red Menace #3
Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- Report of the Siberian Delegation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1903
- A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- Root and Branch: The political origins of the 1960s New Left and the Future
Resource Type: Article
The new left in the 1960s sought to redefine the revolutionary project. The need for a such a redefinition became evident to a new generation of activists when it appeared that the old left socialist tradition lacked the practice or the theory appropriate for the complete transformation of advanced industrial/technological societies.
Essay available in the book "Dissidence: Essays Against the Mainstream."
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1949
How revolutionaries have viewed the relationship between organized planned action and spontaneous action.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Toward a Revolutionary Socialist Party
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
Duncan Hallas, a now-retired leading member of the Socialist Workers' Party (Britain), wrote this article at the beginning of the 1970s with an eye toward a layer of radicalizing workers and student activists. Many in this period were attracted to revolutionary alternatives, but were wary of left organizations because of the betrayals of both social-democracy and Stalinism.
- Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
- Trotskyism and the Vanguard Party
A critique of Trotskyism
Resource Type: Article
Challenging the Trotksyist idea of the 'vanguard party'.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- We can dream, or we can organize
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created and thus a correspondingly little ability to bring about any of the changes hoped for. Nor is social media a substitute for mass action.
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