We Remember Joe Hill
On November 19th, 1915, Joe Hill, a rootless, unassuming migratory worker and member of the Industrial Workers of the World was executed by a five-man firing squad in the prison yard of Utah State Penitentiary for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City grocer and his son in January 1914. Though the flimsiest of…
Por qué los socialistas se oponen al sionismo y al antisemitismo
Contenido · Socialismo contra el antisemitismo y el sionismo · La futilidad del sionismo · Divide y vencerás en Palestina · Sionismo · Palestina y sus problemas · Hijas de Israel lloráis · Carta a un primo de Kiev · Paz en Palestina · Sionismo y antisemitismo Socialismo contra el antisemitismo y el sionismo Algunas organizaciones judías, de las que se…
EL PARTIDO SOCIALISTA Y LA GUERRA (1950)
CONTENIDO Introducción 1. Guerra en el mundo moderno 2. Algunas teorías insostenibles sobre la causa de la guerra 3. El capitalismo es la causa de la guerra moderna 4. El Partido Laborista y la guerra 5. Nacionalismo y guerra 6. Libre comercio, autosuficiencia y guerra. 7. esfuerzos inútiles para prevenir la guerra … 8. Antecedentes de la guerra 1939-1945 9. El Partido Laborista y las dos guerras mundiales 10.El Partido Comunista de Gran Bretaña y la guerra 11.La S.P.G.B. y las…
Capitalism is past its use-by date
If you’re studying history, there’s one thing you have to be always cautious of – it’s the victors that get to write the damned history. It is the duty, therefore, of every revolutionary to tell it like it was, and is, at every opportunity. As Orwell said: “He who controls the present, controls the past. He…
Socialism is still on the agenda
“It’s a nice idea, but it will never work,” is a common refrain from those encountering the genuine socialist case on the streets, or reading socialist material for the first time. And when hearing the numbers who actually adhere to socialist ideas and actively go out of their way and campaign to promote them, the response…
Has the WSM Failed?
The World Socialist Movement has campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means for producing and distributing wealth. In all its years we have not compromised our position once on any issue. So how have we faired? Just what have we achieved? What can…