Daniel Bensaïd (1997): Stalinism against communism
11 June 2024By:
Daniel Bensaïd
Work at White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) in the Soviet Union (from october 16, 1931 until august 30, 1933). Most of the work was done manually by forced labour.
This text was originally published in 1997 as a supplement to Rouge. Writing in response to The Black Book of Communism, Bensaïd discusses the Stalinist counter-revolution.i
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Book Launch for the 3rd Edition of 'The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles'
14 July 2024
Date and Time: Sunday July 14th, 3-5pm. A masked event.
New publication: Internationalism or Russification: A study in the Soviet nationalities problem
21 March 2024By:
IIRE
Our new book is a republication of Internationalism or Russification: A study in the Soviet nationalities problem, Ivan Dzyuba’s classic 1965 samizdat denouncing national oppression of Ukraine by the USSR.
Daniel Bensaïd (2008): Myths and legends of domination
20 March 2024By:
Daniel Bensaïd
In 1964 Herbert Marcuse asked in One-Dimensional Man whether it was still possible to ‘break the vicious circle of domination’.i In other words, he questioned whether revolution was still possible in developed capitalist countries, where ‘the pure form of domination’ had taken shape. The working class, now linked to the system of needs ‘but not to its negation’,ii seemed bound to lose all its subversive capacity in the ‘affluent society’.
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Ernest Mandel (1989): The cost of the defeated German revolutions
14 March 2024By:
Ernest Mandel
Three defeats of the German revolution
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On the occasion of the bicentenary celebrations of the Great French Revolution of 1789, there was an intense public controversy in France, Great Britain and the United States about the alleged ‘excessive costs’ of this revolution.i The conquest of human rights, so far, so good. But what about the deaths caused by the Terror and those of the Vendée uprisings?
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