Marxist Ideas to Turn the Tide

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Readings and Reflections on Revolutionary Socialist Strategy

Book Cover "Marxist Ideas to Turn the Tide: Readings and Reflections on Revolutionary Socialist Strategy" over a black and white photo of three workers working together
by
Cathy Nugent (eds.) and Various Contributors
2013
Short book
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138 pages
ISBN
978-1-909-639-20-1

Includes: The heroic period of the Communist International, by Al Glotzer; The 4th Congress of the Comintern, a university of Marxism, by Paul Hampton; Conditions for revolution, by Leon Trotsky; The United Front, by Leon Trotsky; The workers' government, by Clara Zetkin; The myths of anti-Trotskyism, by Alfred Rosmer; The nature of our action program, and What is an action program, by Sean Matgamna; and more. Download text as pdf here.

Blurb

United front, transitional demands, workers' government: these were three key ideas formulated by revolutionary socialists in the early 1920s as they fought to turn the tide against restabilisation of capitalist power after the upheavals around the end of World War One.

They should be part of our arsenal today as we oppose the drive by capitalist governments to get through the crisis which opened in 2007-8 by redoubling neoliberalism.

This book reviews those strategic debates of the early 1920s and suggests lessons for our times.

Table of Contents
Context
  • The heroic period of the Communist International, by Al Glotzer
  • Conditions for revolution, by Leon Trotsky
Ideas
  • A university of Marxism, by Paul Hampton
  • The united front, by Leon Trotsky
  • The workers' government, by Clara Zetkin
  • What kind of party? By Antonio Gramsci
Retreat
  • The myths of anti-Trotskyism, by Alfred Rosmer
  • Lenin the dreamer, by Paul Hampton
Inspiration
  • The nature of our action programme
  • How to make left unity
  • The United States of Europe, by Liam McNulty and Paul Hampton
  • The Congress of the Peoples of the East, by Martyn Hudson
  • An end to “Apparatus Marxism”, by Sean Matgamna

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