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100 years ago — 1922

100 years ago — 1922

Mike Parker spent his entire adult life engaged in movements and organizations that he believed would advance the struggle for the creation of a democratic socialist society.

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Matt Merrigan was a member of the small Irish Trotskyist group in the 1940s, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and a socialist all his life. He eventually became president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and died in 2000. In the mid-50s, for a while, he wrote reports on Ireland for Labor Action, the paper of the Independent Socialist League of Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, and others in the USA.

A contribution to our ongoing symposium of reflection and recollections of the "third camp" left in the United States. Click here to view the rest of the symposium.

The coming weeks, as labour movement activity dwindles in the second half of December and in early January, are a good time to catch up on reading. Workers’ Liberty is running a half-price offer on all our older books, aiming to redress the backlog in circulation caused by the lack of in-person political meetings over the last two years. We also offer special deals if you buy a few books — for example, both The Fate of the Russian Revolution volume 1, and The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalini...

Good article from 1987 explaining that the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" in German by Marx and Engels is not the same as the English word "dictatorship" and does not conflict with democracy.

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37642 Is socialist revolution possible? Is it desirable? Submitted by martin on 23 July, 2021 - 9:28 Author: Ruth Cashman and John Strawson At the Workers Liberty summer school, Ideas for Freedom, on 10-11 July, Ruth Cashman debated John Strawson on "Is socialist revolution possible? Is it desirable?" Ruth Cashman We live in a murderous system of inequality and exploitation. In sub-Saharan Africa, one in every 13 children dies befo...