Building a United Front During Growth of Far Right Authoritarianism

The Menace of Fascism in Italy The purpose of Ted Grant’s pamphlet, The Menace of Fascism", is to argue that fascism had carried over in the UK after WWII had ended, in contrast with the celebratory mood of the victory of democracy over the forces of fascism. The roots of fascism found in the UK could be traced back to Mussolini’s Italy where fascism first appeared in modern Europe and to Nazi Germany....

September 8, 2020

Democracy as Virtue and as Condition of Workers' Power

We should understand objective conditions of the early history of the International. Arguments held between Marx and the anarchist Bakunin during the 1st International will be very instructive for us, in that they held the same aims but it was ultimately required and easily justified on rational grounds for Bakunin to be expelled from the International. It is usefully quoted in an Ann Robertson text1 from 2003: “Bakunin, however, proceeds: “There are about forty million Germans....

July 27, 2020

Predicted Shortfalls in Government Stimulus Response to Pandemic

Politicians from the major bourgeoisie parties in power today have proven themselves to us once again. The stimulus package passed through both Houses of Congress this week and signed into law by President Trump is a disaster. We are told by the media that the American government has produced emergency aid in response to the emergency of the covid-19 virus pandemic. Even Sen. Sanders ended up compromising with the Republican majority and the corporate Democrats, voting in favor of the bill and leaving it in the end unanimously unopposed, 96 votes to 0....

March 30, 2020