The left wing of the possible?
Review of A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism
by Bill KeachBill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.
Dissidents Among Dissidents
Kit Wainer reviews Ilya Budraitskis’ recent book.
by Kit WainerKit Wainer reviews Ilya Budraitskis recent book, Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia.
From union to workers’ council
J.T. Murphy’s rank and file strategy for revolution
by Avery WearAvery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
Learning from the 1960s
From the archives of revolutionary socialism
by Mike ParkerA lightly edited reprint, from the 1998 issue of the New Socialist, of an article by Mike Parker on the lessons of the 1960s.
Eleanor Marx and the case for Christmas trees
Socialism means happiness
by Aaron AmaralAaron Amaral on EP Thompson’s writing on Eleanor Marx and the meaning of the Christmas tree.
The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy
Lessons for the socialist movement
by Thomas HummelThomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.