Handheld users: view this page better on http://m.socialistparty.org.uk
Reports and Campaigns
The state tags:
Reports and campaigns:
Stop the slaughter of Tamils (46)
Workplace and TU campaigns (4347)
Related websites
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
14 September 2009
1. The Eve of Revolution: The first works of mature Marxism - The Poverty of Philosophy and the Communist Manifesto - appeared just on the eve of the revolution of 1848...
14 September 2009
The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis
1. What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?: It is well known that in the autumn of 1870, a few months before the Commune, Marx warned the Paris workers that any attempt to overthrow the government would be the folly of despair...
14 September 2009
Supplementary Explanations by Engels
The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France"...
14 September 2009
The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
1. Presentation of the Question by Marx: Marx explains this question most thoroughly in his Critique of the Gotha Programme (letter to Bracke, May 5, 1875, which was not published until 1891 when it was printed in Neue Zeit, vol...
14 September 2009
The Vulgarisation of Marxism by the Opportunists
The question of the relation of the state to the social revolution, and of the social revolution to the state, like the question of revolution generally, was given very little attention by the leading theoreticians and publicists of the Second International (1889-1914)...
14 September 2009
The State and Revolution. Postscript
The subject indicated in the title of this chapter is so vast that volumes could be written about it, writes The Author.
20 August 2009
Edward Carpenter: red, green and gay
Spanning more than 80 years, from the 1840s to the 1920s, Edward Carpenter was involved in the rise of mass industrial trade unions, working-class political representation and the struggle for women's equality. Manny Thain reviews Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and love, by Sheila Rowbotham.
Thomas Cook occupation
11 August 2009
Thomas Cook occupation, Dublin: "A living lesson for workers everywhere"
Eyewitness account A FIVE-DAY occupation by workers at the Thomas Cook shop in Grafton Street, Dublin, over redundancies, was brutally ended by Garda (police) in a dawn raid.
Socialist Party (Ireland) councillor Matt Waine was arrested along with 28 workers in the early hours of Tuesday morning 4 August and locked up at Bridewell Garda station. Here is his eyewitness account.
21 July 2009
Scheme closures: COMPUTER GIANT IBM is the latest company to end its final salary pension scheme for its 5,000 members, having already closed it to new members...
7 July 2009
Police trigger ethnic clashes in Xinjiang
Chinese authorities impose martial law A PEACEFUL sit-down protest in the capital city Ürümqi by around 300 Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking minority that is the dominant population group in Xinjiang, was transformed by trigger-happy police into perhaps the most serious ethnic clashes in China seen in decades, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
Search entire database: