Seventy years ago, Hungarian workers and students rose up against a brutal dictatorship that justified itself in the language of Marxism. In its place, they built organs of working-class democracy, giving future generations a chance to discover the essence of revolutionary politics.
Eugene Debs was a committed and radical socialist, and his life was dedicated to the struggle of workers. Passionate, self-sacrificing, and brave, Debs embraced socialist principles after his experience of workers’ struggle and became someone who embodied them.
US socialist Hal Draper wrote Two Souls of Socialism in 1966 while working as a librarian at the University of California Berkeley. It remains a valuable contribution.
Delegates elected from among the more than 5,000 members of the newly formed Australian Socialist Party gathered at venues across Australia (linked via Zoom) for the party’s founding conference over the weekend.
Labor politicians and the trade union leaders allied to them have undermined working-class cohesion and consciousness. In doing so, they have severely weakened the very forces that could have blunted Hanson’s impact.
Stalinism equates socialism/communism with state-controlled industry and a one-party dictatorship. Nothing could be further from genuine socialism and Marxism.
