On the Crisis of Socialism
With the collapse of Soviet-style “socialism” throughout Eastern Europe, the crushing of the 1989 democracy movement in China, and the general disarray of the Marxist left internationally, a phase of...
View ArticleHarry Haywood Centennial: 1898-1998
A fighter for Black liberation, revolution and socialism Harry Haywood was born in 1898. His parents had been born in slavery and had left the South by the time of his birth. Nevertheless, in youth he...
View ArticleMeeting the Challenge of Crisis and Opportunity: Left Refoundation and Party...
Left Refoundation and Party Building About this paper: The Party-Building Commission of Freedom Road Socialist Organization / Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL) takes...
View ArticleFamily Tree: Exchange — Max Elbaum 4/3/2000
The essay "Some Lessons from the Family Tree of the New Communist Movement" makes several good points. But in the end it is disappointing. The main problem is that it doesn't grapple with the specific...
View ArticleFamily Tree: Exchange — Dennis O’Neil 12/01/2000
Thanks for the time and thought you devoted to your comments. I really appreciate it and will try in my response to curb my old polemical instincts, dormant but not extinct. (Word processing programs...
View ArticleFamily Tree: The Trend
Introduction When Ethan Young spoke highly of the family tree of the new communist movement, we seized on the opportunity to ask him if he would lend his expertise in the field to helping us flesh out...
View ArticleToward a Critical Reassessment of Maoism
Toward a Critical Reassessment of Maoism Max Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che offers the revolutionary Left an opportunity for a long-needed self-examination....
View ArticleThe Best Moments for Revolutionaries in ’06 According to Claire Tran
The Best Moments for Revolutionaries in '06 According to Claire Tran: Times of Smash-Downs, Love-making, Tears and Little Dances I'm sure many could come up with a long list of what went wrong in 2006....
View ArticleThe Life of the Party: Thoughts on What We Are Trying To Build
With the publication of Which Way is Left?, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization takes an important step in advancing a strategy for a realignment and refoundation of the revolutionary Left....
View ArticleStatement on the Revolution in Nepal
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Leader, Prachanda Nepal is one of the most poor and economically underdeveloped countries in the world. It sits between the nations of India and China and...
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