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The revolution next time: Wiser and on firmer ground

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The 1926 General Strike: Britain’s revolution betrayed

  The 1926 General Strike: Britain’s revolution betrayed The 1926 General Strike: Britain's revolution betrayed | The Communist Documentary rediscovered – 'The 1926 General Strike: A Revolution Betrayed' | The Communist The trade union leaders’ pitiful response to the centenary of the General Strike | The Communist Public Lecture: Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 British General Strike - World Socialist Web Site An opponent of the class struggle attacks Trotsky, writes a cautionary tale of the 1926 British General Strike - World Socialist Web Site General Strike 1926: Why It Happened and Why It Still Matters | TUC The General Strike, 1926 Tom Watson is wrong: 1926’s general strike wasn’t an ‘absolute failure’ | Anne Perkins | The Guardian

What happened to the International Socialists (U.S.)?

  What happened to the International Socialists (U.S.)?  The 1970s still looms large in the imagination of the dwindling numbers of veterans of the New Left in the United States. The generational shift from campus activism and labor support work in the latter years of the Vietnam War to “industrializing” in the big factories, assembly plants, and mills was an important political development. Inspired by the strike waves and rebellion in the trade unions, thousands of former students, many of whom were members of a bewildering array of competing Stalinist, Maoist, and Trotskyist groups, including the International Socialists (IS), sought to build revolutionary parties in the U.S. working class. Yet, despite the enthusiasm and political commitment of many talented people, this political project was a failure. By the late 1970s, the rank-and-file rebellion was over, and the “party-building” projects of many groups had collapsed and disintegrated, in many cases with great regrets,...

Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

  Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?  Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part One) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Two) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Three) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Four) - Historical Materialism