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| Debate on working class consciousness
The Labor Aristocracy MythThe reality of the last century seems to challenge basic Marxist ideas. Despite occasional mass militancy and even proto-revolutionary struggles, the majority of the working class in the developed capitalist countries have remained tied to reformist politics - a politics premised on the possibility of improving the condition of workers without the overthrow of capitalism. Why is this the case? -> read article... |
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| Poland
50 years since the Poznan uprisingThe insurrectional uprising in the Polish town of Poznan in June 1956 shone a searchlight on the crisis of Stalinism. Preceded by a similar event in East Berlin (in 1953) and followed four months later by the Hungarian Revolution (October 1956), the Poznan insurrection opened the great cycle of the Polish workers’ struggles against the bureaucratic dictatorship (1970, 1976, 1980-1). -> read article... |
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| Yugoslavia
Dossier - On Slobodan MilosevicFaced with the wars of ethnic cleansing which have ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina, the dominant theses have centred either on deadly inter-ethnic hatreds or on Slobodan Milosevic - the “butcher of the Balkans” or adversary and victim of the great powers. This ignores the deep causes of the crisis. -> read article... |