Mon 01, October 2012 @ 08:54
In the years before the First World War
syndicalism developed rapidly as an international force. In the US,
the Wobblies represented mainstream syndicalism. In Britain,
industrial unionism was born in a period of political crisis and
mass industrial action. These two movements were not politically
identical. Mark Hoskisson and Stuart King examine their histories
and development one hundred years on and explain why they
disappeared so quickly with the onset of war...and much more
inside....
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Thu 21, June 2012 @ 13:32
Permanent Revolution
23 is out now with articles on the ongoing crisis in Europe, the
state of the opposition movement in Britain to the coalition
government, a review of the Occupy experience around the world and
the significance of the referendum campaign for Scottish
independence. Other articles review the creeping counter-revolution
in Egypt and an assessment of the outcome of the French
presidential elections
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Thu 26, January 2012 @ 19:17
The winter 2012 issue fo Permanent
Revolution is on sale now. Articles on the struggle to save Britsh
public sector pensions from savage cuts, on the ongoing Euro
crisis, on Chilean students, Italian workers, the history of
German comunism and much more.
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Sun 16, October 2011 @ 15:02
Permanent Revolution number 21, autumn 2011 is now out for sale
online and certain bookshops. Articles on the economic crisis in
the Eurozone, state of the trade unions in Britain and lessons of
the anti-cuts fight in the 1980s.
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Mon 20, June 2011 @ 20:09
The summer 2011 issue of
Permanent Revolution, the quaterly review of theory and analysis,
is now on sale. Articles on the Arab spring, the political fallout
from Japan's nuclear disaster, and the ongoing crisis in the
Eurozone. Plus briefings, debate and reviews.
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Fri 10, June 2011 @ 11:40
Permanent Revolution 20, Summer 2011 out now!
Articles on Arab spring, crisis in the Eurozone, a roundtable on
the anti-cuts movement in Britain, and the fall-out from the
Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Plus briefings, reviews and debate
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Thu 09, June 2011 @ 11:23
Article on the Arab spring revolts, the Eurozone crisis, the
fall-out from Fukushima and a roundtable on the anti-cuts struggle
in Britain. Plus debate on 1921 in Russia, briefings and loads of
reviews. All for £2.50
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Wed 08, December 2010 @ 14:15
This issue of Permanent
Revolution appears during another round of the financial crisis. In
Europe Ireland has replaced Greece at the centre of the storm.
Maureen Gallagher reports on the impact of the crisis there.
On the other side of the world the US and
China have been squaring up to a currency battle that could have
long term implications for relations between two major world
powers. Keith Harvey and Bill Jefferies examine the roots of the
friction that lie in growing uneven developments in the world
economy.
Christina Duval analyses the recent mass
movement in France against pension reform, and interviews
participants in the wave of struggles which led to mass strikes
paralysing the country.
Can we learn from this in Britain? The mass
student demonstrations and occupations seem to suggest we can. In
our editorial and briefings we attempt to cover the varied aspects
of a growing struggle against the Con-Dem Coalition – the role of
direct action and violence, the anti-cuts movement, how the attacks
on welfare and education will affect our future.
Two other
briefings look at far-reaching political developments in the US and
one small island off its coast. In the US the growth of the Tea
Party movement has polarised politics sharply, while the new
measures in Cuba adopted by the ruling party will significantly
accelerate the restoration of capitalism in the economy.
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Wed 22, September 2010 @ 18:53
Since the last issue of
Permanent Revolution parts of Europe have seen mass opposition to
the austerity programmes of the national governments; Greece has
witnessed several protest general strikes and in France millions
have poured onto the streets to defend their pension rights. As our
two articles on the reforms of the NHS and on schools show, unless
these resolutions are turned into mass action the changes pushed
through in both sectors will have a dramatic effect on the lives of
millions. We also continue the debate opened up in the last issue
over the legacy of the Russian Revolution. The crushing of the
Kronstadt rebellion in 1921 has long polarised opinion on the left
– between the supporters of Bolshevism and those from the anarchist
tradition. But here Bill Jefferies critically unpicks the
justifications given by Lenin and Trotsky for their actions and
finds them unconvincing. In a reply to the article in our last
issue on Lenin and Trotsky’s culpability for facilitating the
degeneration of the Russian Revolution by their ban on party
factions, Stuart King argues the article exaggerated the degree of
bureaucratism in 1921. We close as always with our review section.
Please get in touch and tell us what you think.
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Thu 17, June 2010 @ 13:41
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
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Thu 04, March 2010 @ 20:20
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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Wed 09, December 2009 @ 18:46
The winter 2010 issue of Permanent Revolution is out now
featuring articles on the retooling of British fascism, finance
capital after the credit crunch, the Left Party in Germany, a
critique of Robert Brenner and much more.. Order your copy now
online
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Tue 22, September 2009 @ 11:31
The dramatic impact of the recession on jobs
and pay has highlighted the state of working class organisation and
its ability to resist these attacks. PR14 leads on an assessment of
the trade union movement’s response to the crisis – do the rash of
unofficial actions and occupations this year signal a new mood of
resistance or are they isolated and defensive struggles?
We also come back to
the vexed issue of left unity and ask is the latest attempt to
cobble together a left electoral alliance really the way to take
the struggle forward?
On the international
scene we look at the ongoing instability in the Islamic Republic of
Iran and try to trace the roots of the divisions amongst that
countries rulers – divisions that offer the chance for
revolutionary change.
Two other articles
look at workers struggles in Argentina and Cuba. One looks at the
outcome of the long running occupation of the Zanon ceramics
factory while the other stresses the importance of the Guantanamo
workers in the 1959 Cuban revolution.
Our feedback section
carries an interview with a member of the New Anticapitalist Party
on its bid to remodel the French far left as well as response by
Christine Duval that ask whether the NPA may be drawn towards
electoralism despite its role in recent mass
struggles.
Finally, we return to
the analysis of the recent traumas in the world capitalist economy
through a critique of a new book from the SWP’s leading economist
Chris Harman.
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Wed 27, May 2009 @ 15:39
The new issue has a number of related themes. We look at
how the world recession and financial crisis is impacting on
Europe, in particular within the eurozone economies. In our
Briefings section comrades from Ireland and Sweden follow this up
with reports on how the recession is leading to attacks on workers,
both on jobs and benefits. We also carry an article that looks at
the lessons of the Visteon struggle, an important fightback against
factory closures and redundancy terms....
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Sat 07, March 2009 @ 14:03
The spring 2009 issue of
Permanent Revolution is now on sale for £2.50 for 60 pages of
analysis and argument on national and international issues.
Articles on Palestine-Israel, credit crunch, Lindsey refinery
strike, the new anti-capitalist party in France and the discussion
underway inside the Socialist Workers Party (UK). Plus briefings,
reports and reviews.
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Thu 22, January 2009 @ 21:01
Permanent Revolution have published a new pamphlet on Palestine,
which collects together a series of articles published between
2002-2009. To download the
PR Palestine pamphlet click here
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Tue 02, December 2008 @ 10:03
For sale from 5 December, the winter 2009 issue of Permanent
Revolution has articles on the economic crisis, China, Feminist
Fightback, Obama's election victory, debating Kautsky's legacy,
climate change, and much more..64 pages Price £2.50. Order online
or by post
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Mon 15, September 2008 @ 21:40
Our autumn journal not surprisingly deals with the
ongoing financial crisis and its implications for the British and
world economy. Our lead article looks at Britain, while we
interview Costas Lapavitsas on the financial crisis and its
implications for Marxist theory. Two reviews continue the analysis,
one a polemic with our former comrades in the LFI who dismiss the
idea of long waves in capitalism.
A major article looks at the new leadership in
Cuba other pieces give an impression of the new working class in
China and the history of the US working class. Trying to explain
why the USA has never built a workers’ party is very relevant in a
US election year where the voters again are faced with a choice
between two bourgeois parties.
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Wed 28, May 2008 @ 18:09
There is no shortage of self-reverential
looking back to 1968 in the media – the generation of “68-ers” who
now run a lot of it have made sure of that. For all that, May 68
continues to traumatise our rulers. French President Nicolas
Sarkozy, for example, recently fulminated against its “moral and
intellectual permissiveness”.
In this issue we neither romanticise nor
vilify these events. Rather, in two articles – one on the events in
France, the other on the international setting – we examine the
forces that took to the streets that year and the legacy it has
left us with. Our film review continues the ’68 theme.
In an exclusive interview with a leading
Venezuelan trade unionist we unravel the class dynamics of the
Bolivarian revolution and present it alongside a series of
impressions from a comrade who visited recently.
Will China fall prey to the fall-out from the
global credit crunch? We attempt an answer in this issue when we
examine what lies behind its rapid economic growth and the left’s
confusion on the matter.
Finally we search among the ruins of Labour’s
disastrous spring election results and see if we can detect signs
of life for the far left.
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Tue 27, May 2008 @ 21:35
Permanent Revolution 8, spring 2008
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Mon 03, March 2008 @ 18:03
Permanent Revolution 7 (Winter 2007) is now available to download:
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Sun 17, February 2008 @ 15:04
Joseph Stalin died 50 years ago. The system he brutally forged
lived on in the USSR and East Europe until 1989-91. Then, a
combination of deep systemic crisis and democratic mass protests
shattered the degenerate workers’ states one after another and,
finally, the USSR itself....writes Keith Harvey....(For the PDF of
the entire pamphlet Degenerate Revolution click here)
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Sat 16, February 2008 @ 11:05
The world’s leaders have finally woken up to
the realities of the looming environmental catastrophe. They may
argue over the speed with which it approaches and dispute their own
culpability, but they are be falling over each other to show
willing to do something, even if they don’t ever seem to
deliver.
PR’s Environment Pamphlet surveys the solutions on offer from
political leaders and environmental campaigners and outlines a
socialist alternative.
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Mon 10, December 2007 @ 22:29
Permanent Revolution 6 (Autumn 2007) is now available to download:
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Mon 08, October 2007 @ 18:18
Permanent Revolution 5 (Summer 2007) is now available to download:
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Sat 21, July 2007 @ 17:35
Permanent Revolution First Series is now available.
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Tue 10, July 2007 @ 22:08
Permanent Revolution 4 (Spring 2007) is now available to download
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Fri 18, May 2007 @ 13:48
We are working on the next issue of Permanent Revolution, and
want to hear from our readers.
If you have read previous issues, send us your comments - did you
disagree with the arguments about the world economy? Is the British
working class really pale, male and stale? Should prostitution be
decriminalised? Were we too harsh on microcredit? Was the Selfish
Gene progressive?
Whatever you think - send us comments for the web and letters for
the journal!
post comments below, or email contact@permanentrevolution.net
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Tue 15, May 2007 @ 17:51
“We hate G8″ - not a mere phrase, it’s our programme! This paper
is the perfect reading material for all summit-stormers and
society-changers....writes Wladek F...
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Wed 11, April 2007 @ 20:43
Permanent Revolution 3 (Winter 2006) is now available to
download from this site.
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Sun 07, January 2007 @ 19:31
Permanent Revolution 2 (Autumn 2006) is now available to download from this site.
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Fri 29, September 2006 @ 17:17
Permanent Revolution 2 out now!
This autumn issue is a 60-page bumper issue packed with analysis and theory. Price £3.00 including P&P. Now with live text versions of articles available to download.
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Sat 15, July 2006 @ 01:20
Sixteen pages of analysis, reviews and reports of struggle can
be downloaded here
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