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Some of the more popular pages

Cuba/Marxism

“Welcome” ... Trotsky

Celia 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.

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Opiate of the People?

Marxism and Religion

The 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.

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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

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.”

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