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| Cuba/Marxism
“Welcome” ... TrotskyCelia Hart, writer and member of the Cuban Communist Party, describes herself as a “freelance Trotskyist”. The article that we publish here, written on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the assassination of Trotsky by the Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader, was first published on the web site Rebelion. -> read article... |
| Opiate of the People?
Marxism and ReligionThe Marxist view of religion has been greatly over-simplified, typically identified with the well-worn refrain that it’s the "opiate of the people." Michael Löwy challenges this misconception, and presents us with a much more nuanced view of Marxism and religion. -> read article... |
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| Review
The US SWP in the 1960s - Two reviews The Party: The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988, a Political Memoir, Volume 1: The Sixties, by Barry Sheppard
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Barry Sheppard’s book is a sustained exercise in retrieving memories of experiences associated with left-wing radicalism prevalent in the 1960s. This is done especially for the benefit of younger activists who have become engaged in the struggle for global justice in opposition to the corporate-military quest for “empire.” -> read article... |
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