The International Socialist Project is pleased to republish an article by Sam Farber in response to a new book by Eric Blanc, Revolutionary Social Democracy. Working Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917).
The International Socialist Project is pleased to republish an article by Sam Farber in response to a new book by Eric Blanc, Revolutionary Social Democracy. Working Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917).
The real “strategic impasse” is that of those socialists who, finding themselves adrift and without serious organization, joined DSA in a vain hope that it could be influenced to become something it was never been set up to be.
Each worker had a tent, set one or two metres apart, containing a foil mat, pillow, blanket and a box to store their belongings. No workers were permitted to meet anyone from outside the factory; even speaking to a visitor over the gates was forbidden.
A Zanovo-media correspondent interviewed Ainur Kurmanov – one of the leaders of Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan.
This popular alliance will have a difficult task: to confront the newly radicalized right wing and its desire for anti-popular revanchism. That confrontation will take place in the streets and will draw on the lessons of self-defense learned decades ago…