In the 1930s, the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin removed his political rivals and enemies from history. Literally: he had their images brushed out of photographs, their names removed from books. Those he didn’t like simply disappeared from public notice. Kim Jong Un and Mao Tse Tung similarly erased their opponents.
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Autonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from …
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from liberalism, social democrats and other soft-socialists to full bore
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from liberalism, social democrats and other soft-socialists to full bore
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NORMAN BETHUNE AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A GREAT CANADIAN LIE If you visit pretty well any Canadian government site, or one receiving its funding from the government, you will come across the claim that the Canadian Communist surgeon Norman Bethune founded the first mobile blood transfusion unit in the world
Continue readingRedBedHead: The SWP & Revolutionary Bureaucracy or No One Here Gets Out Alive
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for living standards to rise and a more recent phenomenon of rising worker militancy. It led to years of a downturn
Continue readingRedBedHead: The SWP & Revolutionary Bureaucracy or No One Here Gets Out Alive
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for living standards to rise and a more recent phenomenon of rising worker militancy. I…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The SWP & Revolutionary Bureaucracy or No One Here Gets Out Alive
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for living standards to rise and a more recent phenomenon of rising worker militancy. It led to years of a downturn
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Syrian Endgame: Bye Bye Bashar?
Who won’t celebrate the (probably nasty) end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria? This is a regime that has suppressed pretty much all forms of internal dissent and democratic participation and ruled with an iron fist for the better part of the last 40 years. There are no independent trade
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