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the defeats of the 20th century, we have seen a process
of disintegration of proletarian politics. Genuine Marxists
must engage in a process of recomposition. Above all, the
left needs a rigorous approach to theory, an attempt to
rearticulate communism as a viable alternative to a global
capitalism in terminal decline. We call on all serious partisans
of the working class to join us in this work.
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Down with utopia!
The life of the ideology of capitalism fluctuates with the business cycle. How could it be otherwise? When the stakes are up, bourgeois ideology says that the market will reward the energetic, businesslike and competent, and that it will punish the lazy, inefficient and conservative.
Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky comments.
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Communist Party members will be attending the May 10 - 12 Lutte Ouvriere fete in Paris, where they will be giving out an extra supplement of the Weekly Worker with articles in French
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Talking with Tatchell
Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Fischer of Hands
Off the People of Iran and the CPGB and Yassamine Mather
of Workers Left Unity Iran, 21 September 2007.
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As well as defending secularism and exploring contemporary
religious questions such as political islam, Zionism and
christian fundamentalism, Jack Conrad outlines the historic
evolution of the main Abrahamic religions from their origins.
£15 (plus £2 p&p), pp528
"It is one of the best political documents based on Marxist historical materialism that I've read in quite some time - if ever. ... As a non-Party-not-anti-Party, Trotskyite sympathizer, I found Fantastic reality ... to be intellectually challenging ... an absolute must read for Marxists, socialists & atheists."
(Review at www.gnostics.com/fantastic.html.)
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What's Stalinism then?
CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer was interviewed
for BBC Radio 4's 'Broadcasting House' on the question
of Gordon Brown's alleged Stalinism. In the programme,
which was aired on Sunday March 25, Mark Fischer explained
in a light-hearted way the differences between Stalinists,
Trotskyists and Titoists
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Weekly Worker 720 (May 8 2008)
Over the last few decades, and
especially after the invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, political islam has been on the rise - not only in islamic countries, but also amongst muslims in the west. In its rebellion against the alienation created by capitalism, this movement relies on the rejection of enlightenment, turns its back on reality and takes refuge in myths. (...more)
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