Category Archives: Critique

A simple proposal for a new anticapitalist left.

by Simon Hardy I along with a number of other members of Workers Power in Britain, Austria and the Czech Republic have resigned from the organisation. The global capitalist crisis has posed tremendous questions for the radical left about how … Continue reading →

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‘PATIENCE: THE FIRST CONDITION OF LEARNING ANYTHING – STUDYING A MATTER THOROUGHLY.’

“..Patience – the first condition of learning anything – studying a matter thoroughly.” (Letter: Marx to Sorge. 1881.) Whilst there is general agreement among revolutionary anti-capitalists that from a human, ecological and environmental perspective, there is a need to get … Continue reading →

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‘Form’ and ‘essence’ in the Anti-Capitalist Struggle.

It is my opinion that there has developed something of a confusion on the left between the essence (or content) of our anti-capitalist struggle and the changing form it often takes. In general it is obvious that there is a … Continue reading →

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THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (Help or Hindrance?)

We know from direct experience how badly revolutionary party building has fared over the last several decades. Indeed, the steadfast endeavour to build one over the last 70 years has never amounted to more than a precarious and often temporary … Continue reading →

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OCCUPY AND THE TASKS OF SOCIALISTS.

by Pham Binh Over the headline of this blog are a series of pages which contain longer, more analytic articles. A new one by a North  American anti-capitalist, Pham Binh, appears above entitled ‘OCCUPY AND THE TASK OF SOCIALISTS’. I … Continue reading →

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FINANCE, FAT-CATS AND FASCISM.

(Another authoritarian occupation in Europe?) On Monday 5th December, only weeks after anti-democratic appointments to governance; Mario Monti in Italy, Lucas Papademos in Greece, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy publicly declared their Vichy style allegiance to the Banksters of international … Continue reading →

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JUST WHO ARE THE 99%?

(AND WHAT DO THEY WANT?) Over the past month it has become popular to view our present capitalist society in terms of two opposed groups designated simply by percentages. The current popular analysis holds that it is a 1% of … Continue reading →

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BANKERS RULE – OK?

As the current economic and political crisis lurches on, democratic election to government has now been abandoned by a section of the European financial elite. They apparently do not trust the electorate or elected representatives to do what they wish … Continue reading →

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CURRENCIES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.

AND: BURNING CARS IS NOT THE SOLUTION. Currencies. As the debt crisis unfolds and financial markets continue to implode, ‘elite’ actors in politics and finance, along with their supporters in the media, are increasingly anxious to point the finger of … Continue reading →

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THE RETURN OF MARX

CAPITALIST CRISIS. After many years of being written off as outdated – by those who didn’t know any better – the investigation of the capitalist mode of production by Karl Marx, once again proves its undoubted merit. I shall argue … Continue reading →

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