Revolution and Counterrevolution
Reading:
Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Karl Marx, The German Ideology, chapter 1
Reading:
Frederick Engels,Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Lenin, State and Revolution
Pat Brewer, On the Origins of Women’s Oppression
Reading:
Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital
Ernest Mandel, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
Reading:
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
Lenin, Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Michael Leibowitz, What Makes the Working Class a Revolutionary Subject?
Socialist Alliance, Social classes and class struggle in Australia
Socialist Alliance, Towards A Socialist Australia
...resources to come
Reading:
Clara Zetkin, Fascism (August 1923)
Leon Trotsky, The Rise of Hitler and the Destruction of the German Left
Trotsky’s Last Article, Bonapartism, Fascism and War
Erik Baker, Why the Alt-Right Loves Nietszche
Barry Healy, Rosa Luxemburg, Revolutionary Hero
Also:
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Friedrich Nietzsche Open source of Works
Reading:
Chris Slee, Capitalism and workers’ struggle in China
Michael Roberts, Xi takes full control of China's future
Zhiming Long, Rémy Herrera and Tony Andréani, On the nature of the Chinese economic system
John Ross, Learning from China
Preparatory reading:
Jonathan Strauss,
Preparatory chapter
https://socialist-alliance.org/file/russianrevolutionjstrausspdf
John Riddell
[video] "All power to the soviets" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezbwnBgHPqg
Paul LeBlanc
The Revolutions of 1917: http://links.org.au/russian-revolutions-1917-paul-le-blanc
Reading:
Iggy Kim & Peter Boyle, How the rich invented racism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race Class and Marxism
Ken Lawrence, Karl Marx on American slavery
New collection of essays look at crucial links in class and gender theory:
Charting a path through the identity politics debate
https://socialistworker.org/2018/05/18/charting-a-path-in-the-identity-politics-debate
Race, class and socialist strategy
http://links.org.au/race-class-socialist-strategy
The Trouble With Anti-Antiracism
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/adolph-reed-blm-racism-capitalism-labor/
Letter to Borgius [on capitalism and race]
Frederick Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894/letters/94_01_25.htm
Marxism and Class, Gender and Race: Rethinking the Trilogy
By Martha Gimenez
Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 23-33, 2001
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41674970.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
(6 JSTOR articles are free if you create an account)
Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited
By Martha Gimenez
Science & Society, Vol. 69, No. 1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40404227?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
(6 JSTOR articles are free if you create an account)
Confronting racism is key to realising working class unity and power
Mike Treen
http://links.org.au/racism-class-divide-rule-capitalism
21st Century Socialist-Feminism
Johanna Brenner
Socialist Studies, 10 (1) Summer 2014
https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/23486
All Feminists Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others
Amy McQuire
https://newmatilda.com/2015/03/05/all-feminists-are-created-equal-some-are-more-equal-others
Sam Grey
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=samgrey
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Combahee River Collective, 1974
http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html
Capitalism, sexual violence and sexism
Kavita Krishnan
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Kimberle Crenshaw
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf
Reading:
Broder, David. “The Left Should Welcome Mélenchon.” Jacobin. Sept 24, 2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/france-insoumise-melenchon-sixth-republic-labour
Martelli, Roger. “After the Elections.” Jacobin. July 2, 2017. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/france-elections-communist-party-socialist-party-melenchon-macron
Mélenchon, Jean-Luc. “A Future in Common.” Jacobin. Sept 27, 2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/france-insoumise-melenchon-twt-eu-sovereignty-democracy
Sewell, David. “Interview: The Meaning of Macron.” International Socialism. June 19, 2017. http://isj.org.uk/interview-the-meaning-of-macron.
Crémieux, Léon. "The yellow jackets movement destabilizes Macron." Socialist Resistance. Dec 13, 2018. http://socialistresistance.org/the-yellow-jackets-movement-destabilizes-macron/14340
Crémieux, Léon. "France: What is at stake in the yellow jacket mobilisation."Socialist Resistance. Dec 3, 2018. http://socialistresistance.org/france-what-is-at-stake-in-the-yellow-jacket-mobilisation/14089
Hamburger, Jacob. "Can there be a left populism?" Jacobin. Mar 29, 2018. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/left-populism-mouffe-fassin-france-insoumise
Rojava revolution and US intervention in Syria
Turkey: Erdogan threatens full-scale invasion of Rojava
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/turkey-erdogan-regime-threatens-full-scale-invasion-rojava
Marcel Cartier, Trump reaffirms the U.S. war on Kurdistan
https://theregion.org/article/13308-trump-reaffirms-u-s-war-on-kurdistan
Hawzhin Azeez, Freedom is Never Free, it Costs Everything!
MSD co-chair talks about the only solution to the Syrian crisis
Marcel Cartier, Syria: prospects for a political solution after U.S. withdrawal
https://theregion.org/article/13322-syria-prospects-for-political-solution-after-u-s-withdrawal
Meghan Bodette, US claims new guarantees for northeast Syria as regional authorities negotiate
Meghan Bodette, Report: Syria's Yezidis face 'existential threat' from Turkey, ISIS after US withdrawal
Rebwar Rashed, A no-fly zone for Northeast Syria is crucial
Peter Boyle, Create two, three many Rojava revolutions
http://links.org.au/create-one-two-many-rojava-revolutions
Tony Iltis, Rojava’s autonomous cantons: What a revolution looks like
Pete Dolack, Why Are Leftists Cheering the Potential Demise of Rojava’s Socialist Experiment?
The Kurdish Freedom Struggle and (Anti)Imperialism in the 21st Century
A left-wing case against the EU: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reforming-european-union-impossible-dream
The question of the customs union and Jeremy Crobyn's position on it: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/corbyn-labour-eu-single-market-economic-policy
A short summary of the origins of Corbyn and his victory in the Labour leadership election, as well as the initial right-wing strategy against him: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2728-they-want-their-party-back
The article on the media smear campaign against Corbyn over the anti-Semitism affair: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-jewdas
This is also a highly useful interview with Costas Lapavitsas (ex- SYRIZA MP) explaining the "left case" against the EU