Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
Revolutionary
Socialism in the
21st Century
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Notes on the balance of class forces

The decline in workplace organisation is more than falling membership.

UCU members march with banners

Postgraduates v marketisation

Graduate students often work as adjuncts, what is their role in struggles within the university?

Towards a Marxist analysis of rape

Ruth Lorimer and Shanice McBean have written an important article outlining some initial thoughts updating the Marxist view on rape.

Reflections on the ‘IS tradition’

It is wrong to focus merely on the form of democratic centralism without having a sense also of the different quality of the decisions taken by a leadership.

‘You did hear me’ – miscommunication and rape.

Comrades have written a couple of important articles on the attitude socialists should take to allegations of rape, one of the central dividing lines in the dispute that sparked the crisis in the SWP.

The most advanced ideas?

Dan Swain has pitched in to the debates around what “Leninism” means today and historically.

What does it mean to be a Leninist?

Ian Birchall surveys the history of Leninism and critically assesses the SWP’s current approach to questions of democracy and struggle.

Revolutionary organisation and the united front

Rob Owen writes criticising the SWP’s trajectory over the past few years, arguing that it has been based on a false assessment of the working class and is incubating sectarian attitudes to the movement.

Who will teach the teachers?

There is a revolutionary method – one part of which acknowledges that the teachers must themselves be taught by those they set out to instruct.

Some notes on the British working class

A major part of the grassroots activity of socialists who accept the centrality of workers self-organization must be to recapitulate – in new ways – basic ‘from the bottom up’ tactics.

On the Pop-Up Union at Sussex University

The Pop-up Union is a symptom of wider political radicalisation on campus.