Monthly Archives: January 2015

The Forbidden Truth: Islamic State (ISIS) Recruiter Admits Getting Funds from America

The Forbidden Truth: Islamic State (ISIS) Recruiter Admits Getting Funds from America

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Why are we afraid of naming and confronting capitalism?

What is it about the term ‘capitalism’ that inspires many of us to not call its name in vain and in the public square? Why is it that many of us will openly and forcefully critique ‘classism’ but enthusiastically shy … Continue reading

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SYRIZA’s 40-point program

Some good stuff here but they fall far short of the mark. The axe must be laid to the root: Capitalism has to go–all of it, every vestige. http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/93824

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After the election of Syriza in Greece – Power is not in Parliament

Good piece. http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27828

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Kobani liberated! Kurdish forces push ISIS out of town

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Alan Woods’ State and Revolution Rewriting History

The infantile, masturbatory Leninist-Trotskyist Alan Woods is low-hanging fruit to be sure, nevertheless, this is one of the best responses to the Bolshevik Myth I know. It’s brilliantly and forcefully done. Hats off to the author. http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article5252.html

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To Go Forward: First, Stand

This is the manifesto from Stand. I like it very much, save two minor qualms: They misattribute the phrase “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” to Marx. (Everybody does.) It’s Proudhon’s. Secondly they speak … Continue reading

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Trotsky For Beginners

No! I’m not going Trot. But I did find this entertaining. Click to access trotskyforbeginners1980.pdf

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On Not Reducing Racism to Apartheid

Great piece. http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/2256

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Lenin’s Thugocracy

I was leafing through Vera Broido’s  Lenin and the Mensheviks looking for something else when I stumbled upon the passage where the Bolsheviks expel the Mensheviks and the SRs from the soviets. I reproduce it here as it is both … Continue reading

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