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Left antisemitism: what it is and how to fight it

Click here to download text of pamphlet as pdf Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party a number of political storms have taken place in which Corbyn and the wider left have been accused of antisemitism. Some on the left contend such accusations are “smears”, with no basis in reality, fabricated by right-wing forces to impede the rise of the left. We disagree. We have argued for many years that certain aspects of the political common sense dominant on the far left, particularly in terms of how it views the Israel/Palestine conflict have antisemitic implications. This pamphlet...

In Defence of Bolshevism

Order online | Full contents | Study guide | Video | Bulk orders Max Shachtman's Under the Banner of Marxism , which forms the bulk of this book, deserves to be considered one of the classic polemics of the Marxist movement, alongside The Poverty of Philosophy , Anti-Dühring , and others. It defends the Bolsheviks, their revolution, their work to build a revolutionary socialist movement, and the continued relevance of their approach. The British political labour movement is trying to recreate itself. Over the last three years something like half a million people have joined the Labour Party...

Socialism Makes Sense (pdf, February 2018)

Book cover Inside pages The economic crisis of 2008 and its aftershocks cracked the mystique which the world capitalist system had built in the two decades after the collapse of Russian and European Stalinism. For the first time in 30 years the left is on the offensive in the Labour Party. Socialism is again on the agenda — a society based on human solidarity, social ownership of industry and banks, and on political, economic, and social democracy. This book confronts head-on the strongest arguments against socialism now in circulation, inside the Labour Party and beyond. It is a substantially...

Colin Shindler reviews "The Left in Disarray"

Most of the time, the key terms of the anti-capitalist Left have no clear meaning, they express and convey emotion, not reason. They are the tools of demagogy more than of reasoned discourse…our language of politics is decayed, disablingly. So opens Sean Matgamna’s timely book on the moral gangrene of the British Left. In connection with apologia for Mao’s murder of 70 million Chinese, he speaks of ‘mind-rotting conflation, purging of the real meaning of words, vandal destruction of important concepts, smart-ass apologist’s attempts to obscure important distinctions.’ And of course, Matgamna...

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