"Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth!"
James Connolly: “Be Moderate”
James Connolly
What Is Our Programme?
(1916)
From Workers’ Republic, 22 January 1916.
Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997.
We are often asked the above question. Sometimes the question is not too politely put, sometimes it is put in frantic bewilderment, sometimes it is put in wrathful objurgation, sometimes it is put in tearful entreaty, sometimes it is put by Nationalists (...)
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What is our programme ? - James Connolly
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Socialist reconstruction of society
1 March 2009, by Robert ParisSocialist Reconstruction of Society
by Daniel DeLeon
An address delivered in Union Temple, Minneapolis, Minn.,
July 10, 1905
Originally titled The Preamble of the IWW
Workingmen and Workingwomen of Minneapolis:
Our chairman did not overstate the case when he said that the Industrialists’ convention, which closed its sessions day before yesterday in Chicago after two weeks of arduous labors, marks an epoch in the annals of the labor movement of America. I may add, although his (...) -
John Reed, "Ten Days that Shook the World", 2nd part
23 February 2009Chapter IV
The Fall of the Provisional Government
WEDNESDAY, November 7th, I rose very late. The noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul as I went down the Nevsky. It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.
“What side do you belong to?” I asked. “The Government?”
“No more Government,” one answered with a grin, “Slava Bogu! Glory to God!” That was all I could get out of him&….
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Writings of Leon Trotsky
10 February 2009, by Robert ParisWRITNGS OF LEON TROTSKY
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Writings of Leon Trotsky
Upon China
Upon the spanish revolution
Results and prospects
1905
Literature and revolution
History of russian revolution
The betrayed revolution
The transitional program
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Hegel’s philosophy and science
10 February 2009Hegel’s philosophy and science
Friday 1 January 2010
Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
Analytical Table of Contents Preliminary
§ 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness. § 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. § 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises from the other. § 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole. § 196 The idea as nature can be named (...) -
A libertarian Marx ? Daniel Guerin
10 February 2009, by Robert ParisMarx’s famous address The Civil War in France, written in the name of the General Council of the International Working Men Association two days after the crushing of the Paris Commune, is an inspiring text for Libertarians. Writing in the name of the International in which Bakunin had extensive influence, in it Marx revises some passages of the Communist Manifesto of 1848. In the Manifesto Marx and Engels had developed the notion of a proletarian evolution by stages. The first stage would (...)
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Fascism and big business, Daniel Guerin
10 February 2009, by Robert ParisA 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 (...)
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Chinese authorities go easy on bosses, hard on workers
17 January 2009, by Robert ParisChinese authorities go easy on bosses, hard on workers
Wed, 14 Jan 2009.
Prosecutors in Guangdong province told, “not to arrest or detain factory bosses” suspected of economic crimes
chinaworker.info
China’s southern industrial powerhouse, Guangdong, has seen a spate of factory closures and layoffs in recent months. Some of its biggest cities are in ‘recession’ according to government spokesmen. In many cases, bosses have bolted leaving thousands of workers without wages and jobs. (...) -
Chronological list of strikes
8 December 2008, by Robert ParisSeventeenth Century
• Strike of Polish craftsmen in Jamestown (1619, British colonies)
• Maine indentured Servants’ and Fisherman’s Mutiny (1636, Maine, British colonies)
• Virginia’s Indentured Servants’ Plot (1661, Virginia, British colonies) • Maryland Indentured Servants’ Strike (1663, Maryland, British colonies) • Boston ship Carpenter’s Protest (1675, Massachusetts, British colonies)
• Bacon’s Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British colonies) • New York City Carters’ Strike (1677, (...) -
It is their crisis, not ours !
7 December 2008, by Robert ParisRising 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 (...)