A discussion of the Paris Commune and its legacy from an anarchist perspective, indicating how it influenced both Anarchism and Marxism. It shows that anarchism alone has learnt its lessons and that Marxism, particularly in its Leninist form, paid lip-service to it while ignoring both its actual politics and its lessons.
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Review: Romancing the revolution
A review of an interesting book on the reaction to the Russian Revolution within the British left at the time. It shows how many on the left went from supporting the revolution due to its increase in democracy to defeating the Bolshevik dictatorship in a few years. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Review: The Bolsheviks in Power
Review of a 2007 book on the first year of Bolshevik power. Documents the Bolshevik assault on soviet democracy and the opposition. It appeared in Black Flag
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Fight Fibs! Fight Inventions!
Two letters sent to the RCG’s paper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! in response to a disgraceful review of an anarchist pamphlet and their lies on the Makhnovist movement. Neither was published, unsurprisingly.
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How the Revolution was Lost?
A critique of the standard Leninist account of the degeneration of the Russian Revolution, using the SWP’s How the Revolution was Lost (by Chris Harman) as its basis.
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