A review of a book on that remarkable anarchist activist, Louise Michel. Sadly marred by an obvious, and utterly unnecessary, bias for Marxism, it fails to do justice to her ideas and her life.
Category: Revolutions
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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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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Russia 1905
Overview of the 1905 Russian revolution, plus an analysis of why Rosa Luxemburg’s account of the mass strike is wrong about anarchism.
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Review: Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship
A short review of a book which discusses labour protest under Lenin. Essential reading.
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Dead Dogma Sketch (apologies to Monty Python)
Monty Python meets the SWP… Inspired by attending Marxism 2001.
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