Workers' Liberty 6, April-May 1987

Forging the weapon, part 1

An account of the history of the Marxist movement in Russia, first published at the beginning of 1960 in the journal Labour Review . This first part takes the story up to 1906. Click here to download pdf. Click here for 'Forging the Weapon' part 2 .

South Africa: The Freedom Charter - myth and reality

Contesting the mystique of the ANC's Freedom Charter, as allegedly "created by the people" rather than a particular political trend, and defending the campaign for a Workers' Charter in South Africa. Click here to download pdf.

The Labour left today

An interview. "The main problem for the Left is its unwillingness to come to terms with the existing political realities... The Labour left, let alone the left in general, is slow to appreciate the importance of 'constitutional issues. It also disregards the need to give high priority to 'a significant extension of public ownership' - the single most important item that would take Labour's programme beyond the capitalist status quo". Click here to download pdf .

Survey: student militancy, South Africa, the "Perdition" affair

Simon Pottinger on 'A wave of student militancy': From France to China to Spain to Mexico to Kazakhstan, big student mobilisations over the system of university entrance (France, Spain), democracy and press freedom (China, Kazakhstan), and fee rises (Mexico). Tom Rigby on South Africa: Trade union strength roughly doubling in South Africa, over the two and a half years from September 1984 to early 1987. John O'Mahony on "Perdition": "I think Jim Allen's play Perdition, about the massacre of the Jews of Hungary in 1944, should be produced. Those Jews who have campaigned against its being...

Editorials: 1. The Road to Peace. 2. No, we are not beaten!

The road to peace : "Negotiations are once more under way on arms control. Anything that lessens the danger of nuclear conflict is to be welcomed. But nothing agreed between the superpowers merits the trust of socialists... The real road to peace lies not in negotiation between capitalist and bureaucratic imperialists, but in the direction of consistent democracy in international affairs and the overthrow of the imperialists by the working class, East and West..." No, we are not beaten! "Have the Tories seen off the British working class? They think so; and they can make an impressive case...

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