Workers' Liberty 14, July 1990

New agendas for the Labour left, discussed by a leading figure among those "Bennites" who stood out against the general absorption of the Labour left by the Kinnock regime.

The poverty of anti-Stalinism

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:24

Author

Robert Fine

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"I am not for setting up a dogmatic standard. On the contrary we must attempt to help the dogmatists make their dogma clear to themselves. Especially communism is a dogmatic abstraction" (Marx [1])

That Left and Right should find common ground on the issue of Stalinism has been a source of discomfort for a 'negative' socialism which defines its politics in opposition to the Right rather than according to its own independent standards.
One of the driving forces behind the history of left apologetics for Stalinism has been a misplaced

The new left opposition in Eastern Europe

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:23

Author

Martin Thomas

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Describing and discussing the beginnings of socialist organisation in Eastern Europe after the fall of Stalinist rule there.

"A socialist party - that is the basic need of today in Poland"

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:19

Author

Milka Tyszkiewicz

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A Polish socialist discusses the tasks and prospects in the aftermath of the fall of Stalinism in Poland and post-Stalinist regime's forced march to market capitalism.

Revolution set to music

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:16

Author

Clive Bradley

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Discussing the new popularity and impact of musicals.

Lenin's Road To The Finland Station

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:13

Author

Belinda Weaver

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Belinda Weaver takes a fresh look at a socialist classic, Edmund Wilson's To The Finland Station.

Reviews from Workers' Liberty 14

Published on: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 17:08

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Workers' Liberty 14 Reviews section

The real history of US labour (Dianne Finger and Barry Finger review a book by Kim Moody)
It takes all sorts? (Liz Millward reviews a book on the Krays)
As modest as Stalin (Jim Denham reviews Jon Halliday's biography of Enver Hoxha)
Helter skelter and stage by stage (Martin Thomas reviews books by Ken Livingstone and Seumas Milne
Marxism without bullshit? (Jon Pike reviews a handbook of "analytical Marxism" by Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene)
"I have made enough voices" (Lilian Thomson writes on Greta Garbo)