An exhaustive article by Scott Nappalos on the Leninist conception of 'democratic centralism'. In this piece, Nappalos examines everything from what Lenin and Gransci said on the subject, to what it looked like in practice in organizations such as the Communist Party USA and Socialist Workers Party UK, among others.
In the early 1970s one of the most inspiring labour movement-based environmental campaigns was led by building workers in Australia. The story is recounted in Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann’s Green Bans, Red Union (1998) and Greg Mallory’s, Uncharted Waters (2005). The AWL published an account by Mallory in Workers’ Liberty magazine No.64 in 2000 in the aftermath of the Seattle demonstrations.
The decision by President Nixon to close the gold window shattered the international monetary system that had formed a key foundation of the postwar capitalist order.