Ben Lewis introduces another excerpt from his translation of Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France'- published in English for the first time The following text is the second part of Karl Kautsky’s 1905 work, ‘Republic and social democracy’, which was originally published as a series of seven articles in the theoretical weekly, Die Neue Zeit. ...
Leaflet distributed in Manchester today during the national day of protest against tuition fees and education cuts.
Ben Lewis welcomes the initiative of Communist Workers of Iran and offers some fraternal criticisms We welcome the political platform of the Communist Workers of Iran (CWI). We have proofed and edited the English text and are publishing it in the hope that, at a time when the Iranian masses are on the move once more, ...
Both on the student left and the more generally, the 'united front' is often used as a way of justifying this or that opportunistic turn. We hear it constantly from the Socialist Workers' Party when it discusses setting up and doing work around campaigns like Unite Against Fascism (which in reality are more like popular ...
This is a talk given by Lars T Lih which has been taken from the Socialist Democracy website. In a previous interview with CS back in December Lih stated that " [Karl]Kautsky’s positive influence on Lenin does not end even in 1914". This speech explains why he thinks so. Lenin and Kautsky: The final chapter By LARS ...
The following are a letter and proposals that we have submitted to 'Reclaim the Campus': Comrades, We feel that, as this conference is being billed as a discussion of "the need for a political, campaigning student movement which integrates and focuses this activism, which fights to transform our education system as part of the fight to transform ...