“The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850
Mark Hoskisson departs from the conventional, Trotskyist interpretation of the Russian Revolution, in his analysis of Thermidor and the Russian Revolution. (Permanent Revolution issue 17). His conclusion is that the political counter revolution took place inside the Bolshevik party in 1921 and was led by Lenin and supported by Trotsky....by Barry Biddulph
The situation is URGENT as the health of our Mapuche Brothers is rapidly deteriorating. Thirty-two Mapuche prisoners are incarcerated in the prisons of Valdivia, Conception, Temuco, Lebu and Angol. They began the hunger strike 52 days ago as a means of drawing national and international attention to the violation of these people by entrenched government and commercial interests. Recent struggles are a part of an ongoing saga that began with colonialism.
The racist hooligan English Defence League (EDL) were ran out of Bradford on Saturday 28th August, around 700 Nazis fled, their tails between their legs as thousands of locals and non-UAF anti-fascists scattered their ranks to the winds...writes eyewitness from Bradford...
An antimilitarist from Munich is being persecuted by the justice system
While Germany is arming itself and participating in more and more wars, the ruling class wants to have a peaceful hinterland. The increasing xenophobia and the growing Nazi movement are a product of Germany’s imperialist policies.
A major dispute is underway between mineworkers in Poltava in West Ukraine and Ferrexpo Plc, a major player on the global market mainly engaged in mining of iron ore. All three shifts in the open cast in the town of Komsomolsk, of more than 300 workers each are now involved in industrial action. Some railway locomotive drivers and workers on the iron ore concentrating factory have joined in solidarity....by Chris Ford...
On the 70th anniversary of Leon Trotsky's assassination (20/21 August 1940) Keith Harvey reviews an account of the Russian revolutionary’s last few years in exile in Mexico and his assassination.
More than 20 families living in chalets, mobile-homes and caravans at Hovefields Drive, nearby the largest Romani Gypsy and Irish Traveller community in the United Kingdom, Dale Farm, Essex County, are facing imminent forced eviction.
In Chile in May and early June of the year 2006, 1,300,000 secondary school students engaged in over a month of struggle against the neoliberal organization of education. Because of their school uniforms consisting of a black blazer and white shirt their nickname is “the penguins”.....Diego Carmon PR and MPT...
In the wake of the Chilean earthquake the new government is using the reconstruction programme to accelerate its privatisation agenda and undermine labour rights and welfare. Diego Carmoni reports on the tasks of the working class and the role of the MPT.
Stalin was the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution, as conscious agent of the bureaucratic elite that stole power and bloodily repressed opposition. But did Lenin and Trotsky’s earlier suppression of party factions fatally secure his passage to total power? Mark Hoskisson argues that the anti-Stalinist left has underestimated the significance of 1921 in sealing the fate of the revolution
The North West TUC (Proud to Serve the Public) demonstration and rally will be held at the Liberal Democrat Conference which takes place on Sunday 19th September at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The exact timing of the march and rally has not yet been finalised but it will almost certainly be in the morning.
*NOTE DATE CHANGE* now for Sunday 19th September
The summer edition of Permanent Revolution looks in some
depth at the economic situation in Europe and in post-election
Britain. A further article criticises those who look the world
through the prism of the old imperialist powers and ignoring the
economic shifts within the G20 countries.
A major article
by Mark Hoskisson opens a debate in the journal about the
degeneration of the Russian revolution while Alison Higgins surveys
the recent revival of feminist activism in the UK and its links
with past waves of struggles against female
oppression
Permanent
Revolution 16 from March is available for download with articles on
the British general election, New Labour and the Tories. Plus much
more...
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