Review of a new book on the first year of Bolshevik power. Documents the Bolshevik assault on soviet democracy and the opposition.
How the Revolution was Lost?
A critique of the standard Leninist account of the degeneration of the Russian Revolution, using the SWP’s How the Revolution was Lost (by Chris Harman) as its basis.
How Revolutions must not be made
A review of Goldman’s account of her experiences in Russia, plus a review of a classic collection of Kropotkin’ essays. Both contain much wisdom for modern revolutionaries.
1905
Overview of the 1905 Russian revolution, plus an analysis of why Rosa Luxemburg’s account of the mass strike is wrong about anarchism.
Workers Against Lenin
A short review of a book which discusses labour protest under Lenin. Essential reading.
The Bolshevik Revolution: A legacy better rejected
A short overview of the anarchist critique of the Leninist counter-revolution.
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Kronstadt 1921: the end of the Bolshevik Myth
An anarchist overview of the Kronstadt rebellion, written to mark its 85th anniversay. It exposes the various slanders by Leninists against it.
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Review: Kronstadt 1917-1921
Review of Israel Getzler’s essential book about the Kronstadt soviet and rebellion.
Reply to the SWP Open Letter on Nice
This Open Letter was written for indymedia.ie in answer to an open letter from one of the main leninist parties in Ireland that had been published in their newspaper. I’d recently had some bad experiences of their methodology in other struggles which inspired me to write this reply to explain why such a letter was not going to get a positive response. Later in that year and across the following two we were going to have a lot of problems with this party in the anti-war movment and then the European Union summit protests of 2004.
Building Workers against the Black Economy fight sub-contracting in Ireland
In 1998 building workers struggled against the replacement of directly employed workers with contractors through ‘Building Workers against the Black Economy’ an extra union group that was in reality quite close to the unions and set up to avoid the Industrial Relations Act being used against the unions. In the course of the struggle David McMahon and William Rodgers were jailed, this text is an Anarchist News produced by WSM around the protests at this jailing.
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