The Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent on August 21, 1940. Many today who are interested in socialism know little or nothing about him. And yet Trotsky was a key leader of the only successful working-class revolution in history—the 1917 October Revolution. In the face of […]
Earlier this week, we received the terrible news that Pete Gillard, a long-standing comrade, passed away on April 21. It appears that Covid-19 ultimately cost him his life—after he fought and survived cancer surgery, sepsis, other health problems after weeks in intensive care. Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21), […]
Here we republish an article the late Tom Lewis wrote for the International Socialist Review (issue 6, Winter 1999), a publication for which he wrote frequently. Though written more than 20 years ago, the topic is so relevant for today, when so many socialists hold illusions in an electoral or […]
The example of Max Shachtman and the Workers Party (WP) is an instructive example of how committed revolutionaries can be coopted by the Democratic Party. The Workers’ Party, founded in 1940 as a split away from the Socialist Workers’ Party, evolved from an organization strictly opposed to the Democratic Party […]
THE THANKSGIVING myth is intertwined with this country’s origin myth. Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 in search of freedom. Indians helped them plant corn and survive. They made a compact that is the basis of our first constitution, and they held a feast, […]
Many of Gramsci’s concerns as an active revolutionary are those he took with him into prison as the leader of the Communist Party and throughout his life: combating the determinism of Second International Marxism, and emphasizing the importance of human agency in transforming society.
