Ashley Smith explains “Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance”. Manfred Elstrom presents “China’s labour movement under fire” and Ralf Rachas speaks to Yige Dong on “The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China”. Andrea Ferrario notes “For Hong Kong activists: Exile, Prison and Repression Without Borders”. Worker Democracy proposes “Preliminary Theses on the Taiwan Strait Crisis and Taiwanese Self-Determination”, Taiwan activist Fang considers “The Four Critical Junctures of Taiwan DPP’s Transformation from Democratic Reformers to US Client”.
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- 30 November – Special feature: China
Recently posted Features
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The material foundations of opportunism
1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
28 August 2005, byread article...Ernest Mandel wrote this study of the nature of social democracy twelve years ago. Many of the references in it are a little dated, but the article gives valuable insights into the basic character of reformism.
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Marxism
Ernest Mandel and the Marxian Theory of Bureaucracy
26 July 2005, byread article...The emergence and growth of bureaucracy over the last two hundred years has been the subject of considerable discussion among social scientists. Ernest Mandel’s work provides a powerful Marxian alternative to the Stalinist, social-democratic and bourgeois theories that deny the possibility of democratically organized workers’ struggles.
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Trotskyists and the Second World War
1976 - Trotskyists and Resistance in the Second World War
31 May 2005, byread article...During the Second World War, revolutionary socialists argued, in the face of huge repression, that the German-Japanese ‘Axis’ and the US-British ‘Allies’ were fighting an imperialist war; and that working people should support neither side.
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A Journey with Livio Maitan
Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
19 January 2005, byread article...Lidia Cirillo reflects on nearly 40 years fighting for revolutionary marxism in Italy alongside Livio Maitan. She discusses the victories and defeats of the Italian Fourth International section, and the strengths of Maitan’s political vision which historically justified his work, even while he was apparently ’on the margins’.
