Andy Lark responds to Ronan Burtenshaw’s recent piece in Tribune - ‘Socialists: Stay in the Labour Party’ - and argues that as a new stage of struggle emerges, it is the time for principled socialists to rebuild revolutionary forms of class struggle outside of the confines of the Labour Party and parliamentary politics.
Carson Rainham responds to Marcus Barnett’s article in Tribune ‘Rebuilding the Red Bases’ and argues for a totalising approach to building a revolutionary movement in the wake of the 2019 general election and the defeat of the left in the recent Labour leadership election.
This piece was originally a series of blog posts on a personal blog by friend and contributor to the Lever, Muhsin Yorulmaz. His personal blog is no longer accessible to the public, but he has volunteered this piece to The Lever due to the closeness of both Maoist and “less than Maoist” elements to our publication, in the hopes of provoking a discussion about what, concretely, behind the label ought to concern communist revolutionaries in 2019 about the Chinese experience and those who most strongly appropriate it. We hope for this to provide an introduction to a series of forthcoming essays on ‘anti-revisionism’ and it’s relevance today.
We at The Lever strongly condemn the US imperialist intervention in Iraq which lead to the extra judicial killings off commander of the Iranian Al Quds force Qasem Soleimani and leader of the Popular Mobilisation Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis amongst others.
Carson Rainham argues for the necessity of revolutionary organisation which moves beyond the stale debates of the past.
In our final essay of our series on fascism and antifascism, we explore what we believe is a foundational split between miltiant antifascism and more political campaigns. We argue that these tendencies must be unified to create a durable response to the rising fascist threat, and that this can only be achieved organisationally.
Thomas Duffin writes on Welsh Independence in the context of environmental collapse, and how the democratic and ecological models being constructed in Northern and Eastern Syria may provide a model for an alternative.
The Lever Editorial Group’s third essay on fascism and anti-fascism. In this essay, we discuss the history of communist strategy for confronting fascism, and suggest a possible strategy and tactics for today.
Muhsin Yorulmaz calls for a return to the Hegelian routes of ‘Dialectical Materialism’ as a way to develop a theory and practice relevant to the demands of the 21st Century.
Linda Wittig writes on the social chauvanism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the neoliberal and postmodernist appropriation of revolutionary critique.
The Lever Editorial Group writes on the ideological struggle against fascism, and the current tactics used by the left.
In the first part, we will be providing the context in which a theoretical discussion of anti-fascist struggle has become a “burning question of our movement” in Britain today, as well as some of the limitations of the current proposals for organisation that go beyond the demo/counter-demo dynamic.
The Lever Editorial Group responds the Where Is the Winter Palace? On the Marxist-Leninist Trend in the United States by Avery Minnelli and Eliezer Levin, published on the blog The Left Wind.
The Lever Editorial statement against the imperialist intervention in Syria by British, French, and US Forces.
In this article the Carson Rainham, a social work student in London, discusses the potentialities of an emergent return to radical social work, the contradictions of social work under capitalism, the need to adopt a revolutionary method and in turn create a new pedagogy to ensure its survival.
Daniel Sillman writes in memory of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, 49 years after their assassination by police.
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