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In the News (Sat 12 Dec 09)

  
  New Socialist Group: Socialism From Below Part 2
The socialist and communist movement was on the defensive, struggling desperately to defend itself from the hammerblows of fascism.
Moreover, by focussing on movements of the oppressed in the colonial world, both Roy and James challenged the idea that the center of the struggle for socialism was to be found in Europe and North America.
And at a time of new forms of capitalist restructuring and exploitation, and new kinds of social struggles against the system, socialism must be renewed in ways that speak meaningfully to the experiences of new generations of people.
www.newsocialist.org /newsite/index.php?id=122   (8907 words)

  
 Interview with Andy Brooks
But the revived communist movement, which never died in Asia or in Cuba, is taking up the challenge again.
In recent years we have won readers to the New Worker who left the communist movement before the New Communist Party was established in 1977.
The communist movement was strong in Britain in the past.
www.newworker.org /andy.htm   (2859 words)

  
 Freedom Road Socialist Organization - They Wanted to Serve the People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I was drawn to the New Communist Movement because it helped me to understand the root cause of Chicano oppression, what Chicano Liberation could actually look like (i.e., self-determination), what social forces could actually achieve a revolution (the working class and U.S. national liberation struggles), and a socialist vision of an alternative society.
The movement also insisted that challenging the oppression of peoples of color lay at the heart of the revolutionary project, and that people of color movements—the Black freedom movement in particular—played a cutting-edge role in driving forward the democratic advance of society as a whole.
The New Communist Movement put the fight for equality at the center of its politics and devoted immense attention to analyzing the history, structures and pervasive impact of white supremacy.
freedomroad.org /content/view/254/55   (1287 words)

  
 Two, Three, Many Parties of a New Type?
For a number of years, the communist movement was dominated by a perspective on our tasks which tended to gloss over the necessity of concentrating on propaganda work among the advanced workers.
The revolutionary ideologues from the mass movements of the 'sixties by and large cannot match the advanced workers for either their knowledge of working class life or their ability to agitate among and lead the masses.
Stalin warns that communists must judge a trend not by its "slogans and resolutions (which cannot be trusted), but by their deeds, by their actions." If the Davidson/OL/RU line did represent a Right deviation, we would expect that their deeds and actions would demonstrate as much.
struggle.net /ALC/TwoThreeCh2E.htm   (1054 words)

  
 What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968?
New communist movement cadre were among the most dedicated on the left and were in the forefront of base-building efforts in the trade unions and people-of-color communities.
The momentum enjoyed by the new communist movement, and especially the initiative it held within communities of color, was widely recognized on the left.
And the largest components of the new communist movement, utilizing the tight nationwide structures they had fashioned over the previous years, added new recruits from continuing campus activism as well as from their organizing efforts in workplaces and communities of color.
www.historyisaweapon.org /defcon1/elbaum.html   (11287 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto
And it was here that the new slogan "Proletarians of all countries, unite!", a rallying principle today, was born and concludes the Manifesto.
The cyphers propagandising capitalisms' new golden age, consigning socialism to the scrap-heap of history once the former Soviet Union had succumbed to imperialism and counter-revolution, did so because they were sure there was a new gateway to more global conquests opening up.
Just as well that the labour movement sees beyond the "harmony of contradictions" of bosses who continue to drive down wages and expand low paid part-timing and casualisation; or as social provision and benefits across the board are slashed; or while pensions, health and education are privatised; and as investment and manufacturing narrows.
www.newworker.org /manifesto.htm   (2454 words)

  
 Rough Beginnings: The 1920s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Henry "Heine" Huff, one of the new recruits, was a railroad switchman who joined the CLP in early 1920 and stayed a Communist for the next forty years.
The two communist factions did not immediately change the form of organization inherited from the Socialist Party in 1919, which had rested on the assumption that the working class would become the majority and parliamentary activity would be the means to educate the workers about the need for socialism and a path to power.
Communists joined the coalition and were soon using their positions to influence policy.
faculty.washington.edu /gregoryj/cpproject/ko.htm   (3655 words)

  
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Poems and novels were written about the "mass proletarian movement", the "class struggle" and the "successful progression of society towards communism".
In addition to pointing to the positive achievements of the various groups in the “new communist movement”, Elbaum offers an insightful critique of why it failed, citing its sectarianism, ultraleftism, embrace of Stalinism, and the Maoist doctrines themselves.
Moreover, the founders of Rifondazione retained communist symbols (they still retain the hammer and sickle as the party logo) not out of faith in communist ideas but because they feared that the right-wing turn of the PCI would leave a dangerous political vacuum.
www.lycos.com /info/stalinism--cuban-communist.html   (393 words)

  
 Chronology of Political Events, 1954-1992   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It covers key events in international and U.S. politics; mass movements and popular struggles; and especially developments on the U.S. left and within the current which came to be known as the New Communist Movement.
The new AFL-CIO is born December 5 with the AFL’s George Meany as its president.
Dunayevskaya and her followers leave to form News and Letters, remaining folks (with C.L.R. James offering advice in letters from exile in London) include Martin Glaberman and James and Grace Boggs, all three later to play important roles in the revival of the left in Detroit in the mid and late 1960s.
www.revolutionintheair.com /chron/chron1.html   (11574 words)

  
 3.7. Korean Youth Communist League
The main reason why I began with youth movements and placed so much emphasis was, although my being a student at the time had something to do with it, my conviction that they could play key roles in motivating the working class and peasants.
In the early 1920s, youth and student movements in Korea were void of class struggles and anti-imperialism, thus lacking the support of the mass.
The new organization was an underground association of young Korean communists and it primary mission was to lead and organize Koreans for revolution and independence; it was a vanguard for mass revolutionary movement.
www.kimsoft.com /war/r-3-7.htm   (2649 words)

  
 Waste to Wealth - The New Recycling Movement
The recycling movement's success is based on its ability to form coalitions and to solve problems in a cost effective manner at the local level where America pays $70 billion annually on solid waste management services.
The recycling movement's ability to solve logistical and marketing problems at the local and regional level is legendary as consecutive waves of new trucks, bins, processing and shipping improvements became a hallmark of community based recycling companies.
The recycling movement's commitment to broad environmental (wilderness preservation, abatement of toxic substances), sustainability (both inter-generation and intra-generation equity) and social (jobs, community equity) concerns focused on impacts upstream as well as downstream of solid waste management has opened wide opportunities for new coalitions and strategies.
www.ilsr.org /recycling/newmovement1.html   (5525 words)

  
 New Communist Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Communist Movement (NCM) was a communist political movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States.
Similar to the New Left's general direction in the late 1960s, these new organizations rejected the post-1956 Communist Party USA as revisionist, or anti-revolutionary, and also rejected Trotskyism and the Socialist Workers Party for its theoretical opposition to Maoism.
The New Communist Movement organizations supported national self-determination for most ethnic groups, especially fls and those of Latino origin, in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Communist_Movement   (988 words)

  
 Revolutionary Youth Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) was the section of Students for a Democratic Society that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party.
The other major section of the RYM, referred to as Revolutioanry Youth Movement II, were Maoist-oriented and rejected the Weathermen's line of immediate armed struggle in the U.S., advocating building a new revolutionary vanguard party instead.
This milieu became known as the new communist movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement_II   (456 words)

  
 Harvey Klehr book review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
PLP was founded by militant leaders of the old CPUSA who realized that a new communist movement, dedicated to class struggle, no compromise with the exploiters, total devotion to the working class, had to begin by breaking with the Soviet-led movement.
By the mid-1930s, however, the Communist movement had begun to waver in its commitment to fighting the capitalists.
The Communist movement made the strategic error of trying to ally itself with "anti-fascist" capitalists -- those who had contradictions of their own with the fascists.
www.plp.org /misc/book_review.html   (743 words)

  
 New Energy Movement
Somehow, he'd previously managed to write A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture without listing "oil" or "energy" in the index--he'd hardly touched upon the subjects in the book.
Fidel Castro's communist government immediately went to work, breaking up the country's large factory farms into small plots of land, encouraging city dwellers to move to the country and become organic farmers.
India likewise is enjoying an economic boom, and the recent industrialization of both countries is putting enormous new demands on the global oil supply.
www.newenergymovement.org /economicsenergy2.aspx   (3300 words)

  
 village voice > books > by David J. Garrow
A longtime activist in what he calls the "New Communist Movement" (NCM), Elbaum is a trustworthy guide to left radicalism from the late 1960s into the early 1990s.
In contrast to the CPUSA and the Soviet Union, the new, post-SDS revolutionary leftists looked to Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China as their international lodestar and embraced anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and the creation of cadre-staffed, working-class-oriented organizations as their defining commitments.
Although the movement reached a numerical peak in 1973-74, soon thereafter the movement's "dogmatic tendencies.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0227/garrow.php   (999 words)

  
 Revolution in the Air
Revolution in the Air is the first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968.
It tells the story of the “new communist movement,” which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left.
Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a leader of one of the main new communist movement organizations.
www.versobooks.com /books/cdef/ef-titles/elbaum_rita.shtml   (233 words)

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