A Greatest Generation We Are Not
Posted by Andrew Bacevich There was certainly a hint that the previous century was not going to unfold in a particularly propitious manner when World War I, “the war to end all wars” (a phrase famously […]
Category: Literature
The War in Questions
Making Sense of the Age of CarnageBy Tom Engelhardt My first question is simple enough: After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Almost two decades of failing American wars across a […]
Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2
How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus. Lalkar writers Read part one on how the Bolsheviks established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in […]
Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1
How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus. Lalkar writers It might be asked why we should have any particular interest in the conduct of the class […]
Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?
Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget. Ella Rule The following speech was delivered by our party’s chairman, Ella Rule, in Southall […]
International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies
Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism. Proletarian writers The following resolution was passed by a gathering of communist and workers’ […]
Study guide: What is to be done?
By Liberation School Published in 1902, What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement, is Lenin’s argument for a distinct kind of revolutionary organization, and is thus often viewed as the founding text of the Leninist […]
On GypsiesThe EU interviewed 8,000 Gypsies, the results will shock you!
By: GUILLAUME DUROCHER Gypsies in France, 1980s. Credit: Wikimedia Commons I for one am fascinated by Gypsies. I find it remarkable that a people, hailing from the dregs of medieval Indian society, could cross the […]
Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment
Review by James Dorsey Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries. Thoroughly researched […]
The engaged intellect, not the suicidal intellectual … the birth climate so that the term does not become fashionable.
Dr.. Adel Samara The third anniversary of Basil Al-A’raj’s martyrdom is now passing, as it was found in his papers that he used the term clashing cultured, which gave the term an important boost to the […]