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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Eco-Socialism - An Interview With Derek Wall (@Anothergreen) soundcloud.com/user-210198250…

Maoizm, Marksizm-Leninizm'in üçüncü ve daha yüksek aşaması mıdır? Mao'nun teoriye ve pratik mücadeleye özgün katkıları, bunların olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri nelerdir? Muhsin Yorulmaz @TheLeverOrg için yazdı, Barış Koca Türkçeye çevirdi. 👇🏾 abstraktdergi.net/maoizm-nereden/

As Marxists, we understand that the class struggle is never simply that between bourgeois and proletarians. It is shot through with the struggle against these oppressions. Our liberation can only be realised together

On this International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, we at The Lever want to again state out absolute solidarity with all LGBTQI people who struggle daily against bigotry and oppression.

“We invite all revolutionary and socialist minded people interested in this struggle to get in touch with us on a comradely and critical basis, so that we may unite in struggle and struggle in unity.”

Pandemic or no pandemic, we must and will continue the struggle to “bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old” – a world in which “the international working class shall be the human race.” struggleforanewworld.org/2020/05/01/sta…

A CALL ON MAY 1ST TO REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS OF OUR REGION thelever.org.uk/blog/2020/4/30…

We encourage all of our readers to peruse the entire piece for both evidence and commentary, but the relevant response to the debate around Mao and Stalin's positions in 1949 is to be found in these concluding paragraphs:

A correct understanding of our history as socialists is extremely important for how both correct and incorrect ideas about the past inform theoretical and practical prescriptions today.

An extremely important intervention by @alpaltinors for the Turkish Marxist magazine Abstrakt has been translated into English. Alp challenges a common misconception that Stalin was opposed to the successful completion of Mao's military campaign against the Guomindang fascists.

We must take the energy and enthusiasm of the Corbyn moment and bring it forward into new and higher forms of organising instead of allowing it to dissipate into apathy or ossify in unreformable Labour structures.'

'Building a strong revolutionary movement makes positive reforms more possible because the ruling class will try harder to placate the organised masses. Revolutionaries are better reformists than the reformists themselves...

SOCIALISTS: LEAVE THE LABOUR PARTY By Andy Lark thelever.org.uk/blog/2020/4/21…

As a movement we have to forsake the idea that the successes of the past are timeless and reincarnating.'

dangerous conditions for example). Such a movement has to then cut adrift the lingering hope of an entrenched socialist Labour Party and its trade unions with their reactionary betrayal of internationalism and class struggle ecology.

Reimagining, not rebuilding, the Red Base: Gesamtkunstwerk for a new revolutionary movement thelever.org.uk/blog/2020/4/12…