Category Socialism

Coit Tower mural. Circa 1934

This mural gives a flavor of just how unsettled things were in the US during the Depression. It’s part of a public mural completed in 1934 at city-owned Coit Tower in San Francisco. The newspaper says “Home Foreclosures. Banks refuse…

Obama and the ruling class

From Larry Holmes at Workers World. The masses did not launch Obama’s presidential campaign—a section of the U.S. ruling class and its political operatives did. Some in the ruling class got behind Obama merely to advance their faction fight against…

Howard Zinn on anarchism and organizing

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even now in the US, where people on the “Left”…

Divisions on the Left

DSP splits in Australia along lines all familiar to the Left. The fundamental dividing line therefore among Marxists today is between those who wish to continue with the demonstrably failed paradigm of building ideologically homogenous “parties” that are ostensibly “Leninist”,…

Dave Riley comes out

So it’s more than coming out. You can’t do it alone and certainly not in private. And after all these years I am still a practising Leninist. Outwardly I look the same, but when I’m on a roll I’m at…