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Lest We Forget Comments Off on Lest We Forget We cannot let March pass away without a reference to an event of great significance in the history of the working class movement. 2021’s March has some important dates in socialist history. In Germany it is the 150 th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg and a hundred years since the abortive March Action by the Communist Party. While in Russia it is the 100 th anniversary of the doomed anti-Bolshevik Kronstadt Commune. In France March 2021 is has been 150 year since the formation of the ill-fated Paris Commune. To socialists throughou...

Sunday March 14, 5pm: 'A week in politics'

1921 turning point? Mike Macnair spoke to Online Communist Forum on March 7 about the related centenaries of the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, the adoption of the NEP and the ban on factions in the Russian Communist Party This talk was titled ‘NEP, the banning of factions and Kronstadt - the turning point in the Russian Revolution?’ I began by emphasising the question mark, and giving the preliminary answer to the question: ‘No’. But we have to start with the centenary. By spring 1921, it looked as though the civil war was won, while the war with Poland was over for practical purposes. I...

An Introduction to the Work of the CWO and ICT The article which follows is a transcript of an introduction to an online meeting of CWO members and sympathisers on 21 November 2020. What Distinguishes the ICT? The world is full of organisations claiming to be revolutionary, communist or even internationalist. The majority of these have a theory and practice that we would not recognise in any of those categories. Stalinism, Maoism, Trotskyism, and all forms of Social Democracy are to be found under the heading “false friends” of the working class. We have to expose these organisations as l...