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The Origins of Modern Socialism
The specter of socialism is again haunting the minds of the corporate elite, from the Americas to Europe and beyond. This, after decades of pro-capitalist campaigning from the…
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Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx
Friederich Engels Highgate Cemetery, London, March 17, 1883 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think.…
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What is the Permanent Revolution?
Leon Trotsky The socialist revolution begins on the national arena, it unfolds on the international arena, and is completed on the world arena. Thus, the socialist revolution becomes…
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Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto
Leon Trotsky The Paris Commune proved that the proletariat, without having a tempered revolutionary party at its head, cannot wrest power from the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the prolonged period…
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Liberalism, Ultraleftism or Mass Action
Peter Camejo An excerpt…….We’re not interested in moving 20 or 200 or several hundred community organizers to engage in some sort of civil disobedience, window trashing, or whatever.…
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Friederich Engels From that time forward, Socialism was no longer an accidental discovery of this or that ingenious brain, but the necessary outcome of the struggle between two…
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The Principles of Communism
Friederich Engels Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. Introduction by Workers Action Frederick Engels’ “Principles of Communism” was the basis for…
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Who Will Save Iraq?
“We gave Iraq a chance” – President Obama Recent events in Iraq are a tiny foreshadowing of horrors to come. A glance at smoldering Syria reveals Iraq’s fate…
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Regional War Swallowing the Middle East
When the Syrian war jumped its borders into Iraq, surrounding nations had a perfect chance to peacefully cooperate. They’ve thus far refused. The war in Syria now seems to…
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Socialists on Palestine and Israel: One or Two States?
Workers Action With the recent Israeli war on Gaza resulting in the deaths of over two thousand Palestinians along with the massive destruction of an already fragile and…