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1986. Ernest Mandel: What is the theory of permanent revolution?

27 March 2023

For eighty years, the theory of permanent revolution has been the object of a permanent debate inside the international labour and revolutionary movement.i A great number of articles and books have been devoted to the discussion. A significant number of revolutions and counter-revolutions have. occurred in the less developed countries of the world in which this theory could be tested in the light of real historical development.

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6 april, bijeenkomst: Het revolutionaire leven van Henk Sneevliet

22 March 2023

Henk Sneevliet (1883 – 1942) was een Nederlandse socialist van wereldformaat. In Nederland, in Indonesië en in China streed hij tegen kolonialisme en kapitalisme, en voor socialisme. Op 13 april 1942 werd hij samen met zes andere verzetsstrijders van het Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front door de Nazi’s vermoord. Nog elk jaar worden Sneevliet en zijn kameraden herdacht, dit jaar op 16 april. 

1994. Ernest Mandel: All power to the workers' councils

14 February 2023

Council socialism is a social order in which the mass of the population itself decides in a self-governing, self-determining manner what is produced, how production takes places, and how a decisive part of the results of this production is no longer distributed via the market, but according to the principle of satisfying needs.i 

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In memoriam Arend van de Poel

7 January 2023

We mourn the loss of our friend and comrade Arend van de Poel. Arend (1948) passed away on January 4, 2023. He first became politically active in 1966 when he joined protests against the US war in Vietnam. He joined the independent Socialist Youth and some years later was a founding member of the Internationale Kommunisten Bond, the Dutch section of the Fourth International. A comrade remembers Arend in those days; ‘Arend was active in the Amsterdam branch and in the daily leadership. The speed at which he cycled around Amsterdam was legendary.

1983. Ernest Mandel: Marx, Engels and the problem of a double morality

27 November 2022

Marx and Engels have often been accused of advocating double standards, and having a double morality.1 Supposedly, they opposed applying the same ethical principles that usually regulate relations between individuals to the class struggle. Hence the accusation that they and their disciples (Lenin and Trotsky, among others) put forward the principle that in the class struggle ‘the end justifies the means’.

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New publication: Marxists against Stalinism

24 October 2022

As the USSR disintegrated in 1990 and 1991, the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International took different views of the impending privatizations. Marxists Against Stalinism brings together powerful contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR.  Chris Harman argued that Soviet Union and the other “socialist” countries were bureaucratic state-capitalisms.

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