Russia in the Shadows (H. G. Wells) – Appendix I
I PETERSBURG IN COLLAPSE In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. Kameney [Kamenev], of the Russian...
Pamphlets
Conversation With An Anarchist
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution 1917 No.29 (1917): The Platformists dismissed those who took individual autonomy to extremes with the observation that a serious revolutionary organization can only function on the basis of majority rule....
Platformism & Bolshevism
Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency in April 2002. A polemic against platformist anarchism. “The most authoritative group [of anarchists in 1917], in the sense that it was the only one to...
A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency’s History
Christoph Lichtenberg The origins of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI, formerly known as the Militant Tendency) can be traced to a 1937 split in a small Trotskyist group known as Militant led...
Screws Out of the TUC!
Which Side Are You On? The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. On 29 August, the Prison Officers Association (POA) defied the government and walked off the...
For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party!
Why we’re not signing the Socialist Party’s ‘Declaration’ The Socialist Party’s ‘Campaign for a new workers’ party’ (www.cnwp.org.uk), launched at their ‘Socialism 2005’ weekend in November, has produced a ‘Declaration for a New Workers’...
‘The most disgraceful defeat’
PCS capitulation on pension scheme ‘No revolutionist who weighs his words will contend that a victory would have been guaranteed by proceeding along this line. But a victory was possible only on this road....
The Police – continued
Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange 2. Policy of Force – and the Need for Democratic Control The...
The Police
Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange 1. Trade Union Rights! The Police and the Labour Movement Workers taking...
The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands
Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands Lynn Walsh INTRODUCTION On...