OUR REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE – Page 3

Lessons of the Russian Revolution: Independence, United Front and Internationalism

By Jean-Jacques Marie On the 27th of February 1917, a general strike swept away the Tsarist regime. The same day, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers was set up. [...]

October 24, 2017

1947: The Fourth International Against the Partition of Palestine

(reprinted from Issue No. 7 – August 2017 – of The Internationale, the theoretical review of the Organizing Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International / [...]

August 10, 2017

The Russian Revolution and Stalinism

By François Forgue On October 25th, the Second Congress of Soviets met in Petrograd. In his History of the Russian Revolution Trotsky writes: “In Smolny on the 25th of [...]

August 10, 2017

The Workers’ United Front and the Revolutionary Party

Introduction The main instruments the working class has to fight for its immediate and historic interests are its class organizations: trade unions, workers parties, and, [...]

January 19, 2017

The Revolutionary Party & Its Role in the Struggle for Socialism

By James P. Cannon The greatest contribution to the arsenal of Marxism since the death of Engels in 1895 was Lenin’s conception of the vanguard party as the organizer and [...]

December 16, 2016

Intro to Socialism

Introduction The world today is in a mess. Look at your neighborhood and look at the world. We are facing the worst economic depression since the 1930s. Everyday we [...]

December 16, 2016

Some Reflections on the Founding of the Fourth International and the Relevance of its Programme

By Daniel Gluckstein and François Forgue On 3 September 1938, in a barn in a small rural community of the Paris region, 22 militant activists representing organisations from [...]

November 17, 2016

An Introduction to the Russian Revolution

By Socialist Organizer Presentation The Russian Revolution is possibly the most misrepresented event in history. Mountains of articles and books make the case that in October [...]

October 16, 2016