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In the News (Wed 10 Feb 10)

  
  Durruti
It is necessary that the militants, the revolutionaries of the workers' organisations, who have suffered the cruel experience of military defeat and refugee humiliation, give serious and concentrated attention to the lessons of the Spanish war and revolution, for which they have paid so dearly with their blood, the blood of their best comrades.
From the moment that the revolutionary spirit of the militias was undermined by replacing them with an army lacking in the previous enthusiasm and dynamism, there was forged the first link in the chain which has now bound them to defeat.
The multiple attacks and disfigurations of the Revolutionary work of July, 1936, were the seeds of the tragic harvest which has led us to bloody exile, an exile which cannot be understood except when we comprehend the first moves of treason, incapacity, stabbing in the back and immorality which took place.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/8195/Durruti.html   (1356 words)

  
 French Revolution chronology
Revolutionary policies arc decreed to be valid in all occupied territories of the French Army.
All revolutionary tribunals are suppressed in favor of one tribunal in Paris.
Robespierre delivers an important report on the principles of revolutionary government, which he describes as a necessary and provisional form of war against the enemies of liberty, to be distinguished from constitutional government, which conserves and protects liberty once firmly and peacefully established.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/gbrown/hist462/resources/chrono.htm   (5200 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: French Revolution
The French Revolutionary Wars occurred between the outbreak of war between the French Revolutionary government and Austria in 1792 and the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.
The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793.
The slightest hint of counter-revolutionary thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert, revolutionary zeal exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, and the trials did not proceed scrupulously.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/French-Revolution   (11209 words)

  
 Chapter 8. Counter-Revolution. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Citizens of Petrograd, we, the Bolshevik Municipal Councillors elected by you—we want you to know that the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets are engaged in counter-revolutionary action, have forgotten their duty, and are leading the population to famine, to civil war.
The gold and red epaulettes of officers were conspicuous, the familiar faces of the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary intellectuals, the hard eyes and bulky magnificence of bankers and diplomats, officials of the old régime, and well-dressed women….
Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Power can be proud of their Pulkovo detachment, acting under the command of Colonel Walden.
www.bartleby.com /79/8.html   (6174 words)

  
 French Revolution
On the night of August 10, 1792 insurgents, supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune, assailed the Tuileries.
The legislative power in the new republic fell to a National Convention, while the executive power came to rest in the Committee of Public Safety.
The slightest hint of counter-revolutionary thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert;, revolutionary zeal exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, and the trials did not proceed over-scrupulously.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_revolution_1.html   (4028 words)

  
 Lecture 13: The French Revolution, The Radical Stage, 1792-1794
Such a policy ran counter to the bourgeois aspirations of the National Assembly.
Danton (1759-1794), a revolutionary who sought peace with Europe, was executed.
The CPS feared spontaneous action, that is, that the revolutionary leadership might pass into other hands.
www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture13a.html   (1729 words)

  
 Megan Trudell: The Russian civil war - a Marxist analysis (Part 1)
The policies associated with War Communism – ending workers’ control of the factories, requisitioning grain from the peasants and the constriction of democracy – are seen as the seedbed of forced industrialisation, collectivisation, the show trials and the gulag.
The slogan of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in the revolution’s first months had been “neither Lenin nor Denikin (or Kolchak)”, but as the trajectory of the Samara and Omsk governments shows, in the class war that raged in Russia there was no middle ground to stand on.
The strangulation and isolation of the revolution was the aim, and the eventual outcome, of foreign intervention.
www.marxists.de /russrev/trudell/civilwar1.htm   (5543 words)

  
 Mayor Omelchenko - counter-revolutionary!
That included the famous revolutionary platform, which was demanded to be dismantled and replaced to the thinly populated areas of the capital by Omelchenko in person and his assistants".
Vladimir Bondarenko has recalled that despite this, the opposition did not surrender and the assembling of the platform was finished in time, moreover, then the right for assembling was defended by the opposition representatives in the court.
The very appearance, when he had announced the decision of Kiev council in front of its premises, was under the deputies’ pressure including Vladimir Bondarenko.
mignews.com.ua /en/articles_print/158888.html   (686 words)

  
 M-TH: Counter revolutionary Lenin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
They converted the revolutionary army into a regular army robbing that army of its popular revoutionary character.
Lenin must be hailed as one of the great counter revolutionaries of this century.
Revolutionary marxists must make it there aim to destroy the Lenin legend.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1996-November/002351.html   (296 words)

  
 Venezuela between Jesus Christ and Karl Marx ... - CMAQ
Many of my ex-students are Bolivarians in key government positions across Venezuela; all of them experience similar problems with regard to revolutionary education and socialist conscientization of the comrades, of the compatriots, of the sovereign, of citizen power.
A revolutionary mission that uses the same old colonial, missionary methods and neocolonial contents is doomed to failure, is destined to cultivating more "escúalidos".
In valiant efforts, by means of all kinds of revolutionary ostracism and emanncipatory exorcism, millions of dowtrodden, alone in Indonesia, a million communists gave their very lives in defense of Marxism, all were massacred as victims of Christian Civilization.
www.cmaq.net /en/node.php?id=22748   (1954 words)

  
 Tradition, Family, and Property
Potential counter-revolutionaries are those who have one or another of the opinions and ways of feeling of revolutionaries, either because of inadvertence or some other occasional reason, but without the very depth of their personalities being affected by the spirit of the Revolution.
The best way to refute it among revolutionaries is to show it in its entirety, whether as regards its spirit and the general outline of its action, or as regards each of its apparently innocent and insignificant manifestations or maneuvers.
As a rule, the revolutionary is petulant, verbose, and strutting when he has no or only weak adversaries to face him.
www.tfp.org /what_we_think/rcr_book_online/rcr_part2_chap4-6.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Leader voices support for government
Ayatollah Khamenei said that he did not oppose viewpoints of the opposition or publication of their analyses within framework of the law as was the case since the beginning of the revolution but one should not use such pretexts to entrust the affairs of the nation to the counter-revolutionaries and exert pressure on the revolutionaries.
Hence, all personalities, groups and wings loyal to Islam and the revolution should adopt concrete positions against those inside and outside the country who counter the revolution, path of the late imam Khomeini, 'velayat-e faqih' (guardianship of supreme jurisprudence) and constitution under the guise of reforms, added the leader.
The paramount leader strongly criticized the position of a section of the press and the presence of counter-revolutionary and opponent elements (on the scene).
www.payvand.com /news/00/apr/1120.html   (794 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Revolution!
The aim of the game for the revolutionaries would be to knock over a plastic model of a tractor and replace it with a stature of Lenin.
The aim of the counter revolutionaries is to stop either of these events from taking place, or to topple the Lenin statue once it has been erected within a given timescale of turns.
Counters could be little hammers and sickles placed on a map of the USSR, which would form the centrepiece of the board.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Revolution!   (451 words)

  
 Mysteries Article: The Missing Romanovs
The royal family, consisting of Nicholas Romanov, his wife Alexandra, their four daughters Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and their only son, Alexis, were kept under house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo Palace until an abortive uprising by Bolshevik revolutionaries prompted Kerensky to move the family to Tobolsk in Siberia for their own protection.
In October 1917, the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; and in April and May 1918, the Romanov royal family was moved to Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) on the eastern slopes of the Ural mountains, this time for the new government's protection.
The counter-revolutionaries responded to this news by capturing twenty-eight local revolutionaries on the charge of participating in the massacre; five were executed.
www.anomalyinfo.com /articles/ga00007.shtml   (670 words)

  
 The revolutionaries and the shootings in Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In the face of it, and given the ever present threat of military push against Cuba, we internationalist revolutionaries draw a clear line: we are for the unconditional defense of Cuba regardless of Castro's bureaucratic regime and even in spite of it.
We revolutionary socialists are against the death penalty.
However, we recognize that sometimes the class struggle requires that a workers' state or a semicolonial country resorts to such an exceptional measure to fight back their oppressors or the provocations mounted by the counter-revolution.
www.pts.org.ar /contenido/ingleslvo120cuba.htm   (1554 words)

  
 Constitutional Illusions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks have slid steadily downwards—from their expression of “confidence” in Kerensky on February 28 to May 6, which bound them to the counter revolutionaries, and then to July 5, when they touched rock bottom.
The victory of the counter revolutionaries is making the people disappointed with the Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik parties and is paving the way for the masses to adopt a policy of support for the revolutionary proletariat.
Kerensky threatened in his speech to put down the revolutionary movement and prevent seizures of the landed estates by the peasants.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1917/jul/26.htm   (3965 words)

  
 League of Revolutionaries for a New America: People's Tribune / Tribuno Del Pueblo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Hitler's and Musssolini's nazism/facism was the beginning of the end of That, then.What Bush and Co. are not....is Revolutionaries.
To approach this moment in history as just another quantitative stage of capitalism, rather than a revolutionary, qualitative stage, is to commit an error of such strategic importance as to invite defeat.
Our core enemy is the giant corporations and their political representatives (Republicans and Democrats) that are striving to replace the reactionary democratic republic with a fascist state based on the merging of government and corporate interests.
www.lrna.org /league/PT/PT.2005.1/PT.2005.1.4.html   (1501 words)

  
 French Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
On the night of August 10, 1792 insurgents, supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune, assailed theTuileries.
The king and queen ended up prisoners and a rump session of the Legislative Assembly suspended the monarchy: littlemore than a third of the deputies were present, almost all of them Jacobins.
The slightest hint ofcounter-revolutionary thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert, revolutionary zeal exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, andthe trials did not proceed over-scrupulously.
www.therfcc.org /french-revolution-2198.html   (3784 words)

  
 CORRESPONDENCE: OSCAR AND FRANZ - REVOLUYION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION : IMC-SA
The bourgeois revolutionary ruling class ideals of Freedom, Equality and Fraternity, also of Democracy and good liberal capitalism have absolutely nothing to do with us, but we were socialized, educated and bamboozled that they also express our liberty.
The trick of the mental holocaust -- of colonial education and socialization -- was to inculcate the pariahs, the freedom fighters, with bourgeois, capitalist, revolutionary ideas and ideals.
If we are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, by all counts of logics, then we are counter-capitalist, counter-imperialist, against its world revolutionary process, that was launched in 1775 in the Americas, 1789 in France, and in 1830 in Britain, and which now, as revolutionary globalization, as fulfillment, as self-realization, culminates in the USA.
southafrica.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=8886   (1009 words)

  
 Great Purge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A distinctive feature of the Great Purge was that, for the first time, the ruling party itself underwent repressions on a massive scale.
The commission recommended to rehabilitate every accused with exception of Radek and Yagoda, because Radek's materials required some further checking, and Yagoda was a criminal and one of the falsifiers of the trials (though most of the charges against him had to be dropped too, he wasn't a "spy", etc.).
Together with Stalin, the responsibility for the abuse of law, mass unwarranted repressions and death of many thousands of wholly innocent people also lies on Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_purge.htm   (3462 words)

  
 The Nation, 04/08/1950 - A Guidebook for All Good Counter - Revolutionaries by Auden, W. H.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
...he wishes rather to save the revolution from failure through the inevitable over-emphasis and oversimplification of the revolutionary party...
...Hence the tendency of the revolutionary party in concentrating on this one goal to deny all liberty and all minority rights...
...The revolutionary attack is then examined as follows: first comes the catastosh, @r description of the general conditions preceding the outbreak-the...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v170i0014_17.htm   (1446 words)

  
 Thomas Molnar: The Counter-Revolution
The gravitational center...is the belief that the genuine rhythm of societies was contrary to the revolutionary fever; that the government was the guarantor of this rhythm; and that progress presupposes social peace, careful and minimal lawmaking, and protection against upheavals.
For Molnar, the task of the counter-revolutionist is to defend the equilibrium of society.
...the relentless and organized revolutionary assault has finally reached the United States as the embodiment of the pre-1789 political order, and the Church, as the embodiment of the transcendental order.
www.intellectualconservative.com /article3366.html   (1676 words)

  
 Mexican Revolutionaries on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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Dylan to the Beatles, as well as authentic Mexican revolutionaries such as Emiliano Zapata and Ricardo Flores Magon...
be a unique uprising perpetrated by a unique group of revolutionaries.
www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/mexican_revolutionaries.html   (445 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | Iran jails blogger for 14 years
Mr Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was sentenced by a revolutionary court in the Gilan area.
Mr Sigarchi's lawyer labelled the revolutionary court "illegal and incompetent" and called for a retrial in a public court.
Mr Sigarchi was sentenced one day after an online campaign highlighted his case in a day of action in defence of bloggers around the world.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/technology/4292399.stm   (477 words)

  
 Monthly Review September 1961 Interview with Che Guevara
Everything depends on what is meant by “smash.” If this means the violent destruction of the revolutionary regime with the help—likewise direct—of the O.A.S., I believe there is very little possibility, because history cannot be ignored.
These are some of the problems which trouble us at times, but, far from distressing us, they serve to accustom us to the struggle.
In any event, the present revolutionary period must still persist for some time, and it is not possible to talk of structural reorganization while the threat of war still haunts our island.
www.monthlyreview.org /961che.htm   (917 words)

  
 The Vermilion Gate, An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China (Select Books)
Aiping Mu was born in Beijing in 1951, to parents close to the top of the communist hierarchy.
A rare glimpse of life in the highest revolutionary circles is exposed as she tells her story.
As her parents fall from this privileged position to their eventual imprisonment as counter-revolutionaries, her family drama unfolds to give the reader an autobiography in the context of an historic epic.
www.selectbooks.com.sg /titles/32499.htm   (117 words)

  
 What were the relative effects of the counter-revolution and the war in causing the radicalization of the French ...
they were simply criminals, they were declared counter revolutionaries.
The Jacobins also dismantled the old constitution of 1791, introduced the universal male vote and completely abolished the monarchy.
A revolution broke out in Vendee, led by counter revolutionaries.
www.coursework.info /i/64728.html   (635 words)

  
 To What State Have the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks Brought the Revolution?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Here we had, in the purest form, the self-deception of the petty-bourgeois masses and the deception of them by the bourgeoisie with the aid of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.
These parties both claim to be “revolutionary democrats”.
The petty-bourgeois masses cannot help vacillating between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1917/jul/05.htm   (534 words)

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