Category Archives: Revolution

In praise of speaking out

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  21 February 2018   “It’s the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease” Malcolm X (1925-1965), … Continue reading

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  France, 23 April 2017 SHOCK! HORROR! NEOLIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT FIGURE DEFEATS OTHER NEOLIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES After a … Continue reading

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Those pesky natives

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  8 May 2013 …the colonists say that the natives want to go too quickly in their … Continue reading

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The Greening of America

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  7 May 2013 Older people are inclined to think of work, injustice and war, and of … Continue reading

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Those were the days!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  6 May 2013 Be realistic: demand the impossible. Slogan of moderate student demonstrators in the Golden … Continue reading

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Gunfire under Acropolis

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  15 January 2013 The conditions for a popular uprising against the rightwing coalition government in Greece … Continue reading

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Mohamed Morsi and Mao Zedong

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  23 November 2012 Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist President of Eypt, yesterday assumed absolute power. For the … Continue reading

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Comrade of Honour dies

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  1 October 2012 [After a series of interruptions for various reasons this summer, we mark the … Continue reading

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Not a dinner party

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   7 April 2012   革命不是請客吃飯, 不是做文章, 不是繪畫繡花,不能那樣雅致, 那樣從容不迫, 文質彬彬, 那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動, 是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 一九二七年三月 《毛澤東選集》第一卷第一八頁   A … Continue reading

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Why? or How? That is the question

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  Paris, 3 January 2012 To ask “why?” is to be a revolutionary. To ask “how?” is … Continue reading

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