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We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard from the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union. ....
In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government. ....
Opinion: The Lincoln-Garcia debate: What a long strange trip it s been Christopher Hoffman FacebookTwitterEmail Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco.Associated Press Name changes and statue removals make sense sometimes. Yale University’s rechristening of Calhoun College named after South Carolina antebellum politician John C. Calhoun, who infamously defended slavery as “a positive good” was a no-brainer. Yes, Stonewall Jackson was a military genius, but he used that genius to defend and preserve the right to own human beings, steal their labor and buy and sell them like cattle. No statues for him and other Confederate leaders. But as is so often the case in America, an otherwise good idea has been taken to an extreme. In the view of some, the slightest scintilla of racism, insensitivity and unequal treatment means a historical figure must be cast onto the ash heap of history. The San Francisco school board recently set a new standard in this ....
Politics in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century was described as the “Old Corruption”. The state was, at every level, in the hands of the great landowners and their allies. It was used to serve their interests, to protect their wealth and privilege, and they ruthlessly pillaged it to further enrich themselves. Place and position were wholly at their disposal. What made all this possible was the enormous scale of social and economic inequality. This Old Corruption came under sustained assault from a number of directions in the course of the nineteenth century. It was attacked by the new capitalist class that was emerging and was determined to have the state represent their interests. Allied with this class was a new middle class, educated professionals whose great victory was the creation of a modern civil service where entrance was determined by examination rather than aristocratic sponsorship. But there was no great revolution in nineteenth century Britain to ove ....