https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Bolshevism-Balfour-and-Zionism-A-tale-of-two-centenaries https://internationalviewpoint.org/Bolshevism-Balfour-and-Zionism-A-tale-of-two-centenaries 2018-02-12T15:32:49Z text/html en Roger Marwick Britain MENA (Middle East/North Africa) Russia Historical events and figures <p>November 2017 marked the centenary of two of the most decisive events in the twentieth century: the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia and the Balfour Declaration in Britain. The Russian Revolution was executed by the Bolsheviks in the name of peace and international socialism; the Balfour Declaration was a British government commitment to support a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This was not simply a remarkable coincidence. At loggerheads were two mutually exclusive political objectives: the one to promote worldwide, anti-imperialist revolution; the other, to further British imperial interests in the Middle East.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV517-February-2018-" rel="directory">IV517 - February 2018</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Britain-+" rel="tag">Britain</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-MENA-Middle-East-North-Africa-+" rel="tag">MENA (Middle East/North Africa)</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Russia-+" rel="tag">Russia</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Historical-events-and-figures-+" rel="tag">Historical events and figures</a>