This is the final excerpt in the current series from Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France', translated by Ben Lewis[1] and published in English for the first time. Kautsky begins his discussion of the Commune by examining the situation in France under emperor Napoleon III Revolutionary Paris in flames One of the first acts of ...
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why such history is not ...
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CPGB member Chris Strafford discusses the Lessons of the Paris Commune as part of Manchester Communist Students series on revolutionary France.
Scandals involving Jacqui Smith, Tony Macnulty, and Geoff Hoon are just the tip of an iceberg, says Ben Lewis Against a backdrop of popular outrage over ‘greedy bankers’, there has been a rash of scandals over MPs’ expenses. Whereas it was the Conservatives who came under fire in January 2008 when it was revealed that Tory MP ...