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• The legacy of Charles Darwin - L’héritage de Charles Darwin
  21 April 2015, by Robert Paris

  The legacy of Charles Darwin
  150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
  Roy Farrar, from The Socialist (weekly paper of CWI England and Wales)
  Charles Darwin’s theory of ’natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ’intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are teaching evolution as ’one point of view’ (…)

• The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  16 January 2022

  The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  Arguments of Bohr against Einstein
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article6136
  Discussions between Einstein and Bohr
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article4756
  The History of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg
  https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heisenb2.htm
  The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg (…)

• Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  4 December 2021

  C.L.R. James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (…)

• Revolution and counter-revolution in Spain
  19 September 2010

  FOR the new generations moving into political life a study of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 contains valuable lessons. This book, hammered out in time with the dramatic events it describes, stands in direct line with the great writings of Marx and Engels on the Revolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune and Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution. No doubt later historical research has been able to uncover from the record a more detailed account of the facts, and the reports of (…)

• It is their crisis, not ours !
  7 December 2008, by Robert Paris

  Rising Unemployment:
  Why Not Share The Work
  With No Cut In Pay!
  Unemployment is now officially over nine percent in California and expected to go higher. Jobs have been cut in construction, manufacturing, transportation, retail, the high tech and service sectors and city and state and federal governments.
  In addition, there has been an increase in the numbers of workers who have had their hours cut or who are forced to work part-time because they can’t find a fulltime job. And many (…)

• Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  28 July 2014, by Robert Paris

  F.F. Raskolnikov
  Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin
  Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  This document, dated August 17, 1939, was first published in the Paris émigré newspaper Novqya Rossya of October 1, 1939. According to Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, (p.257), in 1964 the author’s widow, a resident of France, brought the original of the letter to Moscow. It circulated widely through samizdat channels in the mid-1960s. The translator is indebted to the Current Affairs Research Section of (…)

• Fascism and big business, Daniel Guerin
  10 February 2009, by Robert Paris

  A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS ILLUSION consists in regarding fascism, despite the horror it inspires, as a progressive political phenomenon – as a passing and even necessary, though painful, stage. Rash prophets have announced ten times, a hundred times, the imminent and inevitable crumbling of the fascist dictatorship in Italy or Germany under the blows of the victorious revolution. They have asserted that fascism, by driving class antagonisms to their highest degree of tension, is hastening the (…)

• The growth of socialism, Eugen Debs
  23 August 2008

  The growth of socialism
  Eugen Debs
  Not many of those schooled in old-party politics have any adequate conception of the true import of the labor movement. They read of it in the papers, discuss it in their clubs, criticise labor unions, condemn walking delegates, and finally conclude that organized labor is a thing to be tolerated so long, only, as it keeps within “proper bounds,” but to be put down summarily the moment its members, like the remnants of Indian tribes on the western (…)

• One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  27 April 2014

  One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  By Andre Damon Feeding America, the US national network of food banks, released its annual report on local food insecurity Thursday, showing that there are dozens of counties throughout in the US where a third of children do not get enough to eat.
  Fourteen million people, or 16 percent of the population, lived in food insecure households in 2012, the latest year for which figures are available. This is up from 11.1 percent in 2007. The (…)

• Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  23 March 2022, by Robert Paris

  Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  Karl Marx, The Holy Family
  “Spinozism dominated the eighteenth century both in its later French variety, which made matter into substance, and in deism, which conferred on matter a more spiritual name.... Spinoza’s French school and the supporters of deism were but two sects disputing over the true meaning of his system.... The simple fate of this Enlightenment was its decline in romanticism after being obliged to surrender to the reaction which (…)