Race & national liberation struggles (159).WE WILL BE RAFFLING 15 COPIES OF “THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION,” AN ANNIVERSARY BOOKLET BY WORKERS’ WORLD MEDIA (KHAYELITSHA, CAPE TOWN)Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Books include Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1880-1940 (2010/2014, with Steve Hirsch), and Negro e Vermelho: Anarquismo e Sindicalismo Revolucionario e Pessoas de Cor na Africa Meridional nas Decadas de 1880 a 1920 (2014). Lucien van der Walt lectures at Rhodes University, and is involved in union and working class education and movements. He has written widely on political economy and strategy, including in Debate, Karibu, Khanya and Pambazuka. Oupa Lehulere is a veteran activist in various social movements, currently based at Khanya College, a social justice and movement building institution based in Johannesburg, South Africa. But is capitalism the last system standing? What can we learn 100 years on? Can the ideas and practices of the different revolutionary currents teach us anything today? What is the link between national struggles and class wars? Beyond the AK47, how have Southern African liberation movements been shaped by the imprint of the Russian Revolution? Is social revolution possible or has its day passed, to be replaced by micro-struggles and reforms? The working class today is larger than ever. Yet by the mid-1920s the wave was ebbing, revolution drowning. Marxist, anarchist and nationalist forces competed and cooperated to establish a new order. These titanic events inspired a massive surge of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles across the world, an unprecedented global strike wave, and further revolutions. Huge changes in social relations, politics, social policy and childcare provided unprecedented gains for women, children, LGBT people and oppressed races and nationalities. The army and navy rebelled, forming councils and helping end the apocalypse of World War One. National liberation struggles redrew the map.
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In cities, factory committees and workers’ councils seized control of workplaces. Rural movements occupied tens of millions of hectares of land, challenging feudal and capitalist relations.
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Struggles from below shattered the second largest empire on earth, the Russian Empire. THE PAPER: The 1917 Russian Revolution shook the globe.
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The series is run by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) and the Departments of Sociology, History, and Economics and Economic History. The conclusion evaluates the crucial role of imperialism, the peasantry, and the army in the Chinese "formula" for revolution and re-examines the relationship between Marxism and the Chinese Revolution.The next seminar in the Labour Studies Seminar Series is presented by Oupa Lehulere and Lucien van der Walt, entitled “1917-2017: The Russian Revolution and its Relevance Today”. He is concerned less with the May Fourth Movement as such, for example, than with the revolution's intellectual origins, less with the Communist party's early political history than with the place of Marxist ideology in that history, less with the military aspects of the war of 1937-45 than with the influence of nationalism in the growing success of the Communists.Īn important part of the book deals with the various governmental and non-governmental attempt at reform during the Kuomintang era, which the author shows were too little too late to dam the swelling flood of revolution. The author seeks above all to relate the events of this tumultuous period to certain tentative generalizations about the nature and course of the revolution. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese Communists' rise in three short decades from obscurity to power.
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The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published.