Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927) Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
"Left Reformism" and socialist strategy Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Rooksby talks about the renewed interest in radical left "big picture" questions of socialist strategy that represents a return to "important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades." The major factors driving this are several years of deep capitalist crisis together with the almost total capitulation of social democratic parties across Europe to the austerity agenda, opening up a clear space to the left of these organisations.
A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution? Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state
The new socialist revolution An introduction to its theory and strategy Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
Radical Digressions Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
Revolution.international Resource Type: Website Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
Socialism.ca Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
The workers' government Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.