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Revolutionary method in the study of Lenin – A response to Pham Binh
[For more discussion about Lenin, click HERE.]By Paul Le Blanc[Read Pham Binh's reply HERE.] January 31, 2012 – Submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Amid a continuing crisis...
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By Paul Le Blanc"The creation of healthy, democratic and cohesive revolutionary organisations on the Leninist model is both possible and necessary, in my opinion."February 1, 2012 – Links International...
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Paul Le Blanc on Barry Sheppard’s memoirs: Revolutionary redemption, lessons...
Barry Sheppard in 1964. By Paul Le BlancThe Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, volume I: The Sixties, A Political Memoir, by Barry Sheppard,Chippendale, Australia: Resistance Books, 2005,...
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Who or what killed the US SWP?
Barry Sheppard (right, holding banner pole with Sylvia Weinstein) at an anti-war march in New York in 1966. The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political Memoir...
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Review: Invaluable history, important lessons from Barry Sheppard
Malik Miah. The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political Memoir by Barry Sheppard, Resistance Books (Sydney), 2005, 354 pages.The Party, The Socialist Workers...
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John Riddell on the US SWP: Part 1, SWP attempts an outward turn (1976–83)
In 1976, the campaign of SWP presidential candidate Peter Camejo won unprecedentedly wide support from left currents.The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political...
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John Riddell on the US SWP: Part 2, causes of a socialist collapse (1976–83)
The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political Memoir by Barry Sheppard, Resistance Books (Sydney), 2005, 354 pages.The Party, The Socialist Workers Party...
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Book excerpt: Barry Sheppard on the triumph and defeat of the 1979 Nicaraguan...
The Nicaraguan people celebrate victory over the Somoza dictatorship in central Managua, July 20, 1979. By Barry SheppardJuly 19, 2012 – Links international Journal of Socialist Renewal --The following...
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Salvador Allende, Cuba and internationalism, 1970–73
Fidel Castro with Chile's President Salvador Allende upon his arrival at Pudahuel Airport in Santiago on November 10, 1971. [For more articles by John Riddell, click HERE.]By John Riddell January 6,...
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Paul Le Blanc: Leninism is unfinished
February 1, 2013 -- The crisis in the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has stirred a sharp debate among party members about the allegations of sexual harassment and rape at the centre of the...
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50 years since ‘The Feminine Mystique’
By Suzanne WeissJanuary 31, 2013 -- Green Left Weekly -- Fifty years ago, on February 13, 1963, the publication of US writer and activist Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique sparked a new...
View Article‘Toward the United Front’: Recovering revolutionary memory for 21st century...
Part 1.February 16, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal– On February 3, 120 socialists took part in a Toronto meeting to celebrate publication of Toward the United Front:...
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Paul Le Blanc: Leninism for now
[More articles by Paul Le Blanc can be found HERE.]By Paul Le Blanc[This is a talk presented in London on May 31, 2013, at the Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times gathering.]Links International Journal...
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Debating 'Leninism': a reply to Paul Le Blanc
Paul Le Blanc. Photo by Alex Bainbridge. [More articles by or about Paul Le Blanc can be found HERE.] By Luke Cooper June 19, 2013 -- IS Network, submitted to Links International Journal of Social...
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Getting our priorities straight: Paul Le Blanc responds to Luke Cooper
Flint sit-down strike (1936-1937). A vanguard layer of the working class, reflected in the vibrant militancy and radicalism of the massive Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).The following is a...
View ArticlePaul Le Blanc: Moving forward to build a mass socialist movement
[Click HERE to see the entire discussion between Paul Le Blanc and Luke Cooper.]By Paul Le BlancJune 27, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/IS Network -- I very much appreciate...
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Barry Sheppard's SWP histories an 'eye-opener' for young socialist activist
The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political Memoir by Barry Sheppard, Resistance Books (Sydney), 2005, 354 pages.The Party, The Socialist Workers Party...
View ArticlePeter Camejo: Against sectarianism -- the evolution of the Socialist Workers...
AGAINST SECTARIANISMThe Evolution of the Socialist Workers Party 1978-1983by Pedro (Peter) Camejo During the years 1978-1983, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) of the United States has been making...
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Open Marxism and the dilemmas of coherence: Paul Le Blanc's reflections on...
Michael Löwy.More by Paul Le Blanc can be found HERE.By Paul Le BlancSeptember 8, 2013 -- ESSF, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with Paul Le Blanc's permission and urging --...
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C.L.R James: The historical development of the Negro in the United States (1943)
This article by Trinidad-born socialist C.L.R. James, written under the pseudonym J.R. Johnson, was originally circulated as an internal memorandum of the Workers Party in December 1943, under the...
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Barry Sheppard: Three theories of the USSR
"In the US and elsewhere, including Britain, a mass anti-war movement developed against the US war in Vietnam. By 1968, the International Socialists in the US and the IS in Britain changed their line...
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Caroline Lund: Reflections of a trade union militant and socialist
Caroline Lund at work. By Barry SheppardAugust 25, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal-- Caroline Lund was for many years a leader of the US Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and for...
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Barry Sheppard on Daniel Bensaid's and Ernie Tate's memoirs of the...
Paris, May-June 1968.An Impatient Life, a Political MemoirBy Daniel BensaidLondon: Verso, 2013Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: a Memoir: volume 2, Britain 1965-1970By Ernest TateLondon:...
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Decline and fall: The US SWP’s final embrace of Zionism
Israel blasts Gaza.The SWP’s response to the one-sided slaughter this summer illustrates the political and moral depths to which the group has descended.By Art YoungSeptember 18, 2014 – Links...
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CLR James: The revolutionary answer to the Negro problem in the United States...
CLR James.A report delivered by C.L.R. James in presenting the draft resolution on the Negro Question to the Thirteenth Convention of the Socialist Workers Party (US), July 5, 1948; introduction by...
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Barry Sheppard: Recovering the revolutionary legacy of Malcolm X
For more on Malcolm X, click HERE. More by Barry Sheppard. By Barry SheppardMarch 5, 2015 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- February 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the...
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John Riddell: Socialist planning and the bureaucratic economy
Che Guevara.Click for more by or about John Riddell.By John RiddellMay 17, 2015 -- Johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- The following...
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The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume 1: The 60s
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal is sharing with its readers a downloadable PDF version of Barry Sheppard’s book The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume 1: The 60s...
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The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume II: Interregnum,...
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal is sharing with its readers a downloadable PDF version of the second volume of Barry Sheppard’s political memoirs The Party, The Socialist Workers...
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United States: Memoirs of life in the Socialist Workers Party - A socialist...
By Suzanne WeissMarch 11, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Against the Current — From its beginnings in the 1800s, modern socialism has embraced equality and...
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