Trotsky’s Ideas in Cuba On May 6 to 8, 2019 the first International Academic Conference examining the life and ideas of the great Ukrainian revolutionary and leader of the Russian revolution Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, now universally known as Leon Trotsky,…
Category: Theory
Boom and Bust – the Capitalist Curse
by Barry Weisleder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is basking in the reflected ‘glory’ of the Canadian economy. The GDP is up. Unemployment is down. Housing starts are on an upswing. However, before popping a champagne cork, consider the following. The…
SOCIALISM 2017 videos are now available online
The Relevance of the Russian Revolution Today Speakers: Jeff Mackler, national secretary, SA USA Barry Weisleder, federal secretary, SA Canada Aurélien Perenna, teacher and union activist of the New Anti-capitalist Party, France. Videos: Part 1: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cStzbgzEsco&w=560&h=315%5D Part 2: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPr4SttMnY&w=560&h=315%5D…
Book Review:”Trotskyists on Trial”
"Trotskyists on Trial, Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR", by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, NYU Press, 2015, 291 pages. A book review by Barry Weisleder Before Trump there was Roosevelt. Is it fair to compare the patrician…
Book Review – An Impatient Life: a Memoir by Daniel Bensaid
An Impatient Life: a Memoir by Daniel Bensaid (Foreword by Tariq Ali), translated from the French by David Fernbach, Verso, 2013 Reviewed by Robbie Mahood Daniel Bensaid (1946-2010) was an important Marxist thinker and leader of the former French…
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Review: “Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s – Ernest Tate, A Memoir”
“Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s - Ernest Tate, A Memoir”, Resistence Books, London. Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965, 274 pages; Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970, 402 pages. A review by Barry Weisleder I'm very excited about the two-volume work that…
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SA conference Condemns the Crimes of Capitalism
Members and supporters celebrated the 20th anniversary of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste with an international educational conference and a party convention held May 23-25, 2014 at the University of Toronto. The conference theme 'Capitalism is Organized Crime'…