Matière et Révolution

Articles

Articles

• Antonio Gramsci (1919) Unions and councils

  29 May 2020, by Robert Paris
  Antonio Gramsci (1919) Unions and councils Source: L’Ordine Nuovo, 11 October 1919; The proletarian organization which assembles, as the total expression of the worker and peasant mass, in the central offices of the Confederazione del Lavoro, is passing through a constitutional crisis similar in nature to the crisis in which the democratic parliamentary state vainly debates. The solution of one will be the solution of the other, since, resolving the problem of the will of power in the (...)
  
  

• Time’s End for Capitalism

  1 May 2020, by Robert Paris
  Time’s End for Capitalism Can capitalism last without crises? Why capitalism is self-destructing and why there is no point in trying to reform it The ten main reasons for the agony of capitalism Behind the health crisis is the historic and inexorable collapse of capitalism Covid-19 and after?… Is covid-19 the Cause of the Global Economic Collapse ? The USA marks the end of the capitalist system Ten questions to those who do not believe that capitalism has definitely fallen in (...)
  
  

• Covid-19 and after...

  5 April 2020, by Robert Paris
  Covid-19 and after?… The G20 will throw five trillion dollars into the capitalist abyss and this will not even be enough to reduce the widening of the abyss as the latter grows at a faster rate than the number of deaths from the pandemic! No politician, no economist, no predictor dares to say that there is a chance of survival and economic recovery. They are content to assert that all means must be used, without limit, to "help the economy" and, if these colossal sums reach the hands of the (...)
  
  

• W.E.B. Du Bois and His Work

  10 March 2020, by Robert Paris
  W.E.B. Du Bois and His Work By William Gorman As he approaches eighty-two, no higher tribute can be paid William Edward Burghardt Du Bois than that it is impossible to seriously consider the Negro in America without being confronted by his name at every turn. Journalist, research scholar, sociologist, historian, novelist, pamphleteer, educator – his evolution intertwines so completely with that of the Negro people since the Civil War that his individual portrait is the collective portrait (...)
  
  

• Lenin and Trotsky join forces to fight bureaucracy

  26 février 2020, par Robert Paris
  1922-1923 : when Lenin and Trotsky were united against Stalin Lenin and Trotsky join forces to fight bureaucracy ‘Stop the retreat’ LENIN, in his report to the Tenth Congress of the party, made it clear that the New Economic Policy would strengthen capitalism in the countryside : ‘... the switch from the appropriation of surpluses to the tax will mean more kulaks [rich peasants] under the new system. They will appear where they could not appear before.’ [1] In his summing-up of the debate on (...)
  
  

• On Historical Materialism

  21 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Franz Mehring On Historical Materialism (Part I) The bourgeois world today regards historical materialism as it did Darwinism a lifetime ago, and socialism half a lifetime ago. It reviles it without understanding it. Eventually, and with great difficulty, the bourgeoisie began to grasp that Darwinism was really something other than an “ape theory”, and that socialism was not a matter of “having a share-out” or “laying a thieving hand on all the fruits of a thousand years of culture”. But (...)
  
  

• The First Five Years of the Communist International

  18 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  The First Five Years of the Communist International Leon Trotsky - The First Five Years of the Communist International - Volume I (1924) Leon Trotsky - The First Five Years of the Communist International - Volume II (1924) Read also The Communist International The “Third Period” of the Comintern’s Mistakes Main texts of the Communist International of Lenin and Trotsky Manifesto of the Third International (Communist) written by Leon (...)
  
  

• Works of Frederick Engels 1877

  13 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Works of Frederick Engels 1877 Anti-Dühring Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science Formerly known as Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science, Engels’ Anti-Dühring is a popular and enduring work which, as Engels wrote to Marx, was an attempt “to produce an encyclopaedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems.” Marx and Engels first became aware of Professor Dühring with his December 1867 review of Capital, published in Ergänzungsblätter. They (...)
  
  

• Haiti 2008 : The Forgotten Occupation

  9 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Haiti 2008 : The Forgotten Occupation Emmanuel Santos explains why an extended UN presence has only meant more suffering for the people of Haiti. MORE THAN 9,000 military and civilian personnel from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH, by its French initials) will remain in the country until October 2009, following the UN Security Council’s unanimous vote on October 15 to extend its mandate. MINUSTAH troops have occupied Haiti since 2004 when a U.S.-backed coup (...)
  
  

• Grandizo Munis and Spanish Proletarian Revolution in 1937

  4 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Grandizo Munis and Spanish Proletarian Revolution in 1937 The Bourgeois State in Crisis (April 1937) Although our edition was closed for this issue, the crisis of the Generalitat obliges us to comment, holding up our publication a little bit. It is public knowledge that these periodic crises of the Generalitat represent the flowering of a continuous friction between the various forces integrated into the Council. What is making impossible the normal functioning of the government is the (...)
  
  

0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | ...