Killing and dying for “the old lie” – World War and the triumph of militarism over anti-fascism.
Spain is nice at this time of year – the BNP and Spanish fascism.
Beijing Coma – can the symbols of classic socialism still be symbols of emancipation, despite their blood stains?
Oscar Wilde on socialist songs – Up, ye People! or down into your graves!
The partisan poet – Adam Kirsch on Abba Kovner.
Ethel MacDonald and Bob Smillie – and Guy Aldred and Fenner Brockway. More Guy Aldred.
Carlo Tresca – The Dilemma of an Anti-Communist Radical.
The sweet and the cruel – Ian Buruma on Occupied Paris.
The Labour Party between the wars – ideological contours.
A postcard from Coyoacan – Trotsky’s last home in Mexico.
TROTSKY’s STUDY – WHERE HE WAS SITTING WHEN HE WAS MURDERED WITH AN ICE PICK
Translated novels – including Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years.
Stalin’s Terror – a review by Peter Taafe.
David North on Robert Service on Leon Trotksy (and on James Burnham on Isaac Duetscher on Leon Trotsky) – not sure if I’ve already posted this one.
Open letter to Havana – on Stalinist slurs against the Freedom Socialist Party.
The Black Marxist Tradition – an interview with Cedric J Robinson.
You don’t play with revolution, Alfie – Lady Poverty on CLR James on Marxism. (And here’s James from AK.)
The Search for the Tassili Frescoes – Afrocentrist history and CLR James at Federal College.
The John Hope Franklin File – the FBI, anti-communism and black history.
Stalin: Why and How – Boris Souvarine.
The myth of Mondragon – Louis Proyect debunks Spanish autogestion?
Poplarism – a review of Janine Booth’s book.
Half a century of Hausman’s – from the North East London radicals, from Permanent Revolution.
A Rebel’s dream – Ian Birchall on Ernest Mandel.
George Padmore – forgotten fighter.
Reasoning otherwise – Canadian radicalism 1890-1920.
More years of the locust – Permanent Revolution on Jim Higgins on the origins of the IS.
Decline – Scott McLemee on Cornel West. Plus more from Michael Tomasky.
New from AK: Italian anarchism 1864-92, French anarchism 1917-45, Zapatismo and the Panthers.
Flag Day in Lawrence, MA, 1912 – a slice of IWW history.
Two from Christie Books:
Facts About the Spanish Resistance 2 – What is the CNT? by José Peirats
The Anarchists in London 1935-1955 by Albert Meltzer