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Trotskyists and the Resistance in World War Two

By ERNEST MANDEL

(1976)

I want to go into the question of the resistance movement in Europe between 1940 and 1944 in detail. I want to do so especially because some comrades for whom I have respect, and whom I hope to see back in the Fourth International, the comrades of the Lutte Ouvrière group in France, have made it their special point of honour to raise this question against the Fourth International.

From the foundation of the Communist International, communists were educated in a principled rejection of the idea of “national defence” or “defence of the fatherland” in the imperialist countries. This meant a total refusal to have anything to do with imperialist wars. The Trotskyist movement was educated in the same spirit. This was all the more necessary with the right-wing turn of the Comintern and the Stalin-Laval pact in 1935, which turned the Stalinists in the West European countries, and in some colonial countries, into the worst advocates of pro-imperialist chauvinism.

Liberté et démocratie pour les peuples d’Ukraine

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Julia Steinberger
(Lead Author for the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report):
Universal well-being within planetary boundaries

Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing). She is interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project ‘Living Well Within Limits’ investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries.

Europe: The rulers of the great powers are playing with fire

by ACHCAR Gilbert

It is not an exaggeration to say that what is currently happening in the heart of the European continent is the most dangerous moment in contemporary history and the closest to a Third World war since the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba in 1962.

True, neither Moscow nor Washington has hinted at the use of nuclear weapons so far, although there can be no doubt that the two countries did put their nuclear arsenals on standby in the face of the current circumstances. It is also true that the level of military alert in America has not yet reached the level it reached in 1962. But Russian military build-up at the borders of Ukraine exceeds the levels of troop concentration at a European border witnessed in the warmest moments of the “Cold War,” while Western verbal escalation against Russia has reached a dangerous level accompanied by military gestures and preparations that create a real possibility of a conflagration.

Chili, Irlande, France : Hommage à Helena - « Nous nous sommes connus, Helena et moi... »

par Norman

Nous nous sommes connus, Helena et moi, fonctionnaires du Service national de la santé au Chili, et nous étions aussi des syndicalistes. L’action syndicale fut sa première expérience, dans la voie d’une prise de conscience aigüe sur les inégalités qui divisent la population des sociétés capitalistes et de la nécessité de se battre pour y mettre fin.

Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made About Revolutionary Politics

By Jim Poe (Jacobin magazine)

In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds, a retelling of John Reed’s classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics.

Reds is a grand-scale historical drama based around the life and career of John Reed, a North American journalist who traveled to Russia to chronicle the Revolution. Based on his firsthand observations, Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, his 1919 classic account of the events of the Revolution which took place two years prior.

A success for CADTM: the world assembly of the network, held in Dakar from 13-16 November, 2021

The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) network held its conventional World Assembly from 13-16 November 2021, at Dakar, Senegal. This was the third World Assembly after the first in Morocco (May 2013) and the second in Tunisia (April 2016), all held on the African soil. This major event was held for 4 days, simultaneously in person (with 37 delegates, 19 women and 18 men) and online (34 participants), with a large women’s representation.

A Survey of Comintern Auxiliary Organizations – Part 8: 

The Red Sports International (1921–1937)
Harnessing Recreation to the Revolution

by RIDDELL John

On 23 June 1921, a gathering of about 20 Communists in Moscow founded an international association to unify “revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations … into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”[1]

Merging sports and class struggle on a global scale? A tall order, to be sure. But the 1921 Moscow initiative rested on two solid pillars: the traditions of the prewar Second International and the achievements of the young Soviet republic.

The Moscow consultation on sports brought together delegates from eight countries who happened to be attending the Third World Congress of the Communist International then in session. However, the initiative came not from the Comintern but from Nikolai Podvoisky, head of the Soviet Council for Physical Culture, an agency charged with preparing Soviet youth for military conscription.[2]

Socialist strategy and the party

by Gilbert Achcar

Below is the transcript of a talk titled “Marxism, socialist strategy, and the party” by Gilbert Achcar, which was delivered to the South African initiative, Dialogues for an Anti-capitalist Future. Here, Achcar traces conceptions of the party from Marx to the present and its implications for socialist strategy today. This transcript has been revised, edited and completed by Gilbert Achcar. The original video recording of the talk can be found here.

Thank you for inviting me to address this meeting. It’s a great opportunity for me to discuss these issues with comrades from Africa, the continent where I was born and raised as a native of Senegal.

Michel Husson: an activist in the economy and an economist who inspired politics

22 July by Eric Toussaint

Michel Husson’s decease will leave many comrades all over the world with a deep sense of loss and bereavement.

Michel Husson (1949-2021), who had a solid training as an economist, was a keen observer of the capitalist system and its evolution in order to contribute to its overthrow and to social emancipation.

Pandemics and the capitalist destruction of nature

by Daniel Tanuro

The pandemic we’re coping with is a zoonosis. Zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by pathogens jumping species from animals to humans. The pathogen may be a virus, a bacterium or a prion.

So far as we know, zoonoses have been present throughout human history. Scientists estimate they’ve caused about 50% of all human disease, and they’re becoming more frequent. For the past thirty years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 60% of emerging infectious diseases have been zoonoses – even 70%, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) special report on pandemics – and three quarters of all new pathogens present in humans come from animal species. AIDS, Zika, Chikungunya, Ebola, H1N1, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, H5N1, SARS, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other diseases of the last few decades were zoonoses.

The Republican Party's Delusional Attachment to
Trump Sets the Stage for the Acceleration
of Neoliberal Proto-Fascism

by  C.J. Polychroniou

The strategic objective of the Republican Party is not simply to engage in obstructionism, but to continue dividing the nation and radicalizing the American public against the democratic system.

Liz Cheney’s removal from House GOP leadership over her rejection of Trump’s election lies and Republican senators' blocking of a bipartisan proposal to create an independent panel that would investigate the Capitol siege reveal in stark terms at least two things: (a) that Republicans have built a cult of personality around Trump, and (b) that they are now at the mercy of the proto-fascist mob that their Dear Leader energized and nurtured during his four-year tenure in the White House.

Either way, the fact of the matter is that, for purposes of political expediency, the GOP has opted to become a dark political force, relying almost entirely on lies and deception—while at the same time waging a coordinated onslaught on voting rights—as its governing techniques. As such, it represents a real threat to the stability of the republic.

La Commune de Paris: un saut de tigre dans le passé

Par Michael Lowy

Toute révolution est, comme l’écrivait Walter Benjamin, « un saut de tigre dans le passé » : ce fut le cas de la Commune de Paris de 1871, qui avait, dans la Commune parisienne de 1793-94 une de ses principales références ; et le même vaut, comme nous verrons plus loin, pour la Révolution russe, par rapport à la Commune de 1871.

La Commune de Paris : un saut de tigre dans le passé

Pour le 150e anniversaire de la Commune

Dans le 18 Brumaire, Marx affirmait que les révolutions prolétariennes, au contraire des bourgeoises, ne tirent par leur poésie du passé, mais de l’avenir. Il avait sans doute raison : les révolutions sociales sont toujours inespérées et innovatrices, elles inventent des nouvelles formes d’organisation et de lutte. Mais en même temps je pense que Marx se trompe : toute révolution tire aussi son inspiration, sa poésie, des révolutions antérieures. Toute révolution est, comme l’écrivait Walter Benjamin, “un saut de tigre dans le passé” : ce fut le cas de la Commune de Paris de 1871, qui avait, dans la Commune parisienne de 1793-94 une de ses principales références; et le même vaut, comme nous verrons plus loin, pour la Révolution russe, par rapport à la Commune de 1871.

CHAOUAT Gérard (Vingtras, Vallès)

Né le 6 mai 1944 à Alger (Algérie), mort le 23 avril 2021 à Paris (XXe arr.) ; militant de l’UEC et du PC, du FUA et de la JCR, de l’International Marxist Group 1974, de la LC/LCR jusqu’en 1980 ; pendant ses études de médecine, militant syndical à l’AGEMP-UNEF, un des dirigeants de la « Mino Médecine » ; chercheur au CNRS, militant du SNCS-FSU, du SNESUP, de la FSU et de l’École Émancipée ; militant du NPA à sa création en 2009, puis Gauche anticapitaliste, Ensemble ; directeur de recherches au CNRS, spécialiste de l’immunologie de l’implantation.

Gérard Chaouat naquit à Alger dans une famille séfarade. Son grand-père paternel, médecin, juif et franc maçon, fut président de la Ligue des Droits de l’Homme à Alger. Engagé à l’extrême gauche, en 1936 il encouragea les occupations d’usines puis milita de manière occulte en faveur du PC à Hussein-Dey. Interné au début de la guerre, il décéda au camp d’internement de Djenien-bou-Rezg (Sud-Oranais). Son grand-père maternel, ingénieur, participa à la construction de barrages en Algérie et à la modernisation du port d’Alger. Il est mort Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Il était l’ami de Ferhat Abbas et d’Abderrhamane Farès, ancien président de l’Assemblée algérienne. Un jour, en 1962, à Paris, au retour d’une manifestation de l’UNEF contre les attentats de l’OAS, Gérard Chaouat eut la surprise de trouver Ferhat Abbas dans le salon de l’appartement familial. Son père, médecin rhumatologue finit sa carrière comme Médecin chef de la Fondation Rothschild, rue Manin (XIXe arr.). Sa mère fut empêchée de passer son agrégation de Lettres classiques du fait de l’abrogation du décret Crémieux en Algérie par le gouvernement de Vichy. Son frère Didier, aujourd’hui décédé, était lui aussi médecin rhumatologue.