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This definitive documentary history collects manifestos, speeches, articles, and letters from the German Revolution—Rosa Luxemburg, the Revolutionary Stewards, and Gustav Landauer amongst others—introduced and annotated by the editor. Many documents, such as the anarchist Erich Mühsam's comprehensive account of the Bavarian Council Republic, are presented here in English for the first time. The volume also includes materials from the Red Ruhr Army that repelled the reactionary Kap...

Written in 1924, this pamphlet charts the development of the Russian and German revolutions, and attempts to point forward from the failure of these two major events, analysing the role of the parties and the trade unions in their respective failures.

There have been a multitude of coups throughout the past, many of which have monumentally shaped the course of history in bold and dramatic fashion. The

While the March on Rome was significant, writes David Broder, the active collaboration of the Italian ruling class with the fascists was central

SUPPLEMENT: Before, during and after March Ben Lewis explores the multiple causes behind what was a badly calculated bid to artificially induce revolution in Weimar Germany Heavens above, what is going on here! Genuine remorse, even if enforced, or nothing of the kind? Do you really know what you have done? The best action, the noblest and highest cause ... a cause that god just for once put in your hands, you have treated like muck in a pigsty (Gerhart Hauptmann Our path against putschism) Th...

January 14, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddells Marxist Essays and Commentary — Parliaments and elections are no guarantee of democratic rights and fair treatment for working people. Capitalist forces displeased with an electoral outcome are all too likely to take direct action to impose their will, whether by financial manipulations, economic blockades, or military coups. Even apparently stable parliamentary regimes in dominant countri...

In the late 1980s , a band of unhappy Philippine military officers who felt they, not Corazon Aquino, the elected president, should be running the government staged seven uprisings to press their point. They were egged on by a populist colonel named Gringo Honasan, their charismatic leader who had only recently helped to overthrow the former president, Ferdinand Marcos. None of the uprisings succeeded. But the image both abroad and in Manila, where I was posted at the time as a correspondent, w...

Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have longed warned that President Trump and his supporters would not go quietly. I have lost count of the number of warnings I have given since Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 and how he described the loyalty of his supporters when he said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible…”  At the time many thought that he was joking. I knew he wasn’t  joking...