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Mensheviks
The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian socialist movement that emerged in 1904 after a dispute in the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, leading to the party splitting into two factions, one being the Mensheviks and the other being the Bolsheviks. The dispute originated at the Second Congress of that party, ostensibly over minor issues of party organization. Martov's supporters, who were in the minority in a crucial vote on the question of party membership, came to be called "Mensheviks"
Category: Organisations/Parties: 24th March 2017 20:41
8 member(s)Latest Discussion: Karl Marx: man and fighter - Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen -
Marx Memorial Library Members
A group for members or supporters of the Marx Memorial Library in London.
In the Library building with the help of Harry Quelch Lenin edited Iskra. 20th century press was also based in the International Brigade Archive room .
In 1933, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, a delegate meeting comprising trade unionists, veteran socialists belonging to the Labour Party and Communist Party, and representatives of the Labour Research Department and Martin Lawrence Publishers Ltd., considered setting up a permanent memorial to him. The meeting was held at Conway Hall against the backdrop of the Nazi burning of the books in Germany. In these circumstances, delegates resolved that the most appropriate memorial to Marx would be a Library.
Given its place in London’s radical history, 37a Clerkenwell Green was considered the ideal premises. Thus the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School was founded.
Study classes, held in the evenings, became the distinguishing feature of the Workers’ School, which was divided into faculties of science, history and political economy. Prominent speakers included J.D. Bernal, J.S. Haldane, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, Tom Mann.
In 1934 Viscount Hastings, who had studied under the great Mexican artists Diego Rivera, executed a large fresco style mural on the wall of the first-floor reading room. Titled ‘The Worker of the Future Clearing away the Chaos of Capitalism’, it illustrates events and leading thinkers in the history of British Labour.
A Library of books, pamphlets, archives and posters grew over the years and was augmented significantly by the donation of the International Brigade Association archive in 1975, the Klugmann Collection in 1977, the Bernal Peace Library in 1994 and the archives of the print unions in 2009.
The Library expanded to occupy the whole building over the years. The premises achieved Grade II listed building status after the facade was restored in 1968-9 to the way it had originally looked in 1738. During further refurbishments in 1986, tunnels were discovered underneath the Library.
For over eighty years the Library has continued its work collecting published and archival material on the science of Marxism, trade unionism and the working class movement and making them available to through education courses.Category: Organisations/Parties: 29th August 2015 16:00
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Socialist Standard
Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist magazine published without interruption since September 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The magazine is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and Marxian analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the United Kingdom.
http://bestofsocialiststandard.blogspot.com/Category: Organisations/Parties: 21st June 2017 22:56
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Zapatista world support
The Zapatista Army of National liberation went public January 1, 1994 in order to oppose NAFTA and instigate a second mexican revolution,this never happened so it in turn became a platform for indigenous right's.It's ideology zapatismo is a combination of anarchism,libertarian socialism and marxism;but has no creed to any of them,it is open to all ideologies.This group is made to create revleft following and possibly help out EZLN.
WHAT EZLN IS AND ISN'T
IS NOT
1.A marxist guerilla group
2.An anarchist guerilla group
3.A terrorist group
IS
1.An indigenous rights group
2.A womens rights group
3.A guerilla group of mixed political orientation [anarchism,libertarian socialism and marxism]Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 11th July 2016 15:52
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Solidarity with Cuba
Be solidary with Cuba!
Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 2nd January 2018 15:47
336 member(s)Latest Discussion: What kind of changes do Cuba need? -
Palestine solidarity group
Discuss and organise issues in solidarity and relating to the struggle to free the Palestinian people.
Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 2nd January 2018 15:47
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Hands off Venezuela!
The presence of the Chavez government and his policies are seen by many progressives and revolutionaries as pivotal to the progression of socialism throughout latin america and possibly even further afield. Furthermore, the way in which Venezuela has aided sections of impoverished americans has been a source of embarressment for the US government. Discuss and debate how progressives globally can do their part to act in solidarity with the current Venezuelan political system.
Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 24th August 2017 14:29
207 member(s)Latest Discussion: Is Hugo Chavez worth supporting anymore? -
Hands off Libya!
This group is for those who realize that solidarity with Libyan "Socialism" is good, in the struggle against Zionist and Western Capitalism and Imperialism. We also support the United States of Africa ideal, set forth by Muammar al-Gaddafi. As we view such an organization as beneficial to all of Africa.
While we don't agree with or support Islam, or any mythology at all. We suggest to the left and workers, that they not dismiss Libyan "Socialism", without learning about it first. By reading The Green Book. Along with researching Libya, it's history, and the situation there, for themselves.
We are completely against the pro-western Monarchist rebels, and the vicious attacks by their western imperialist masters.Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 3rd July 2015 01:32
80 member(s)Latest Discussion: So... part II -
Romani Solidarity Group
This group stands for the end to all racist crimes and human rights abuses against the Romani people. Romanies have been and continue to be one of the most oppressed groups in the world. No more ignorance and hate against Roma, Sinti, Calé, Gitanos, Gypsies, Manouches, and Didikai.
Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 7th November 2016 09:52
101 member(s)Latest Discussion: 160 years after Roma slavery -
Ex-Anarchists
Used to be Anarchist. Not anymore.
Category: Campaigns/Misc. Political: 21st April 2016 18:49
46 member(s)Latest Discussion: What made you leave?
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Marxist-Leninists
Marxism-Leninism is the theory and practice of the Communists, who uphold the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the struggle for proletarian revolution, the construction of socialism, and the triumph of communism on a world scale. It is the scientific ideology of the working-class and its vanguard which accomplish these aims.
Marxism-Leninism bases itself on historical and dialectical materialism, taking into account the objective material conditions existent in each country and region. It supports just struggles against imperialism and neo-colonialism whose victories are guaranteed through the leading role of the working-class in said struggles. It supports internationalism as the guiding basis of the foreign policy of the socialist state and in the approach to inter-imperialist conflicts. Marxist-Leninists fight for both democratic and socialist demands and, where necessary in the world, carry out any bourgeois-democratic tasks in tandem with the uninterrupted move over into the socialist revolution.
The struggles waged by Marx, Engels and Lenin against all forms of revisionism, opportunism and reformism constituted both the defense of scientific socialism and its creative development, opposing both "left" and right-wing deviations.
The construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and likeminded countries provided a superior alternative to the capitalist system. The treacherous policies pursued by the restorers of capitalism constituted a heavy setback for the world working-class movement, but they could not reverse the nature of capitalism and the inevitability of class struggles for socialism under it.
Marxism-Leninism remains the ideology of the working-class by virtue of its scientific content and objective merits in the epoch of imperialism and the decay of capitalism.
=Reading List=
-Basics-
* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyACondensedCourse
* https://archive.org/details/MaterialismDialecticalMethod
* https://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/13358/ (Elementary Principles of Philosophy)
* https://archive.org/details/lininandtherussi035179mbp (an introduction to Lenin's life, Leninism, and the October Revolution along with the first few years afterward)
* https://archive.org/details/AShortHistoryOfTheCPSU
* https://archive.org/details/InternationalWorkingClassAndCommunistMovementHisto ricalRecord
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ (The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin)
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ ("Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin)
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin)
* http://bookzz.org/book/862537/add33c (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism)
-Advanced-
* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyCapitalism
* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomySocialism
* https://archive.org/details/tfomlp (The Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy)
-See Also-
* http://www.revleft.com/vb/threads/195470-Compilations-of-writings-by-Marx-Engels-and-Lenin-(PDFs)
NOTE: To all forum users wishing to join, have some indication that you are a ML in your profile.Category: Tendencies: 7th June 2018 13:29
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Indian Guerilla Left Front
Join the Indian political revolution .Lal Salaam to all Comrades
Category: Organisations/Parties: 5th June 2018 04:59
5 member(s)Latest Discussion: Members are invited to express their views on Maoism -
Debunking leftists.
As the tendency name suggests, this group is for interested leftists to come together, dispell and find quick refutations of common myths surrounding economics, discrimination, Communism itself and other subjects that commonly appear in the discourse of modern politics.
If you get pissed off whenever you hear a comparison between Marx, Lenin Pol-Pot and Hitler, If you tremble uncontrollably at the words 'a way between extreme Marxism and Capitalism' or 'Good on paper but bad in practice', If you hate having to put up the constant conservative vomits who continuously explain to you how deregulation would increase competition and therefore worker's luxury of living, then this is the group for you!Category: Interests: 7th May 2018 06:03
42 member(s)Latest Discussion: The exploitation of M.L.K. Jr's image by the bourgeoisie. -
Feminist
Feminism: A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
Category: Tendencies: 29th April 2018 17:14
504 member(s)Latest Discussion: Sex positive VS sex negative feminism -
Orthodox Trotskyism
Orthodox Trotskyism, so called by both adherents and detractors, is a political current within the broader Trotskyist movement that bases itself on the work of Leon Trotsky and his associates, such as James P. Cannon, who advanced Marxist theory in the direction indicated by Trotsky's work, in opposition to the revisionist theories of Pablo, Shachtman, Cliff and others. Orthodox Trotskyists emphasise the analysis, first outlined by Trotsky, of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, of the Stalinist bureaucracy as a contradictory stratum, and of the present epoch of the class struggle as being characterised by a deep crisis of leadership that can only be resolved by forging, on a firm basis, a Fourth International of revolutionary Bolsheviks-Leninists. This group is for adherents to the orthodox Trotskyist line, and every comrade who is interested in orthodox Trotskyist theory.
Category: Tendencies: 13th April 2018 11:33
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Romantic Sound
For all those who's passion finds an outlet in music with themes about love and romance. Countless genres around the world from oldies and 70's ballads in the west to C-ambient and soothing J-pop ballads in the east. Romantic tones find themselves being a universal language. We don't care if this music makes us seem soft or weak, the mood it puts us in is powerful.
Category: Interests: 12th April 2018 22:45
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Industrial Workers of the World
A union for all workers.
An injury to one is an injury to all
http://www.iww.org/Category: Organisations/Parties: 12th April 2018 22:45
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Castroism
This group is for people who feel cuba's revolution is now the example for world revolution in the 21rst century
Category: Tendencies: 12th April 2018 22:45
7 member(s)Latest Discussion: Venezuelan communist Party kicked out of elections -
Linguistics Group
A Group for the discussion of Historical and Scientific linguistics, as well as the learning of languages.
Category: Interests: 6th April 2018 17:22
56 member(s)Latest Discussion: What Languages do you speak or hope to speak? -
Luxemburgists
For all those who identify as Luxemburgists or are influenced by Rosa Luxemburg and her writings and actions.
Category: Tendencies: 29th March 2018 01:57
280 member(s)Latest Discussion: Anarchism and Luxemburgism