Theory
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The Myth of ‘Russian Imperialism’: In Defense of Lenin’s Analyses
The following in-depth, 8000 word article was originally published in 2016. However, it has become as relevant as ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on…
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The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, Walter Rodney
By Nick D Walter Rodney was a revolutionary Marxist born in Guyana in 1942. He studied history at the University College of the West Indies…
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Marxism, Socialist Feminism and the Place of Class Struggle for Women’s Liberation Today: Examples from Brazil and Australia
By Ana Cavalcante This talk was part of a panel planned as a way to provoke debate on the question of women’s and workers’ organisations…
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The Origins, Politics and Trajectory of the International Socialist Tendency
By Sam King The following was presented on day two of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022. In today’s imperialist world, which is starkly…
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Labour Aristocracy, Opportunism and National Chauvinism – A Historical Split in Socialism
By Nick D. The following was presented on day two of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022. This talk will focus on the theory…
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Reflections on the October Revolution
By Danial Nikovich In early 1917, misery and economic hardship bore down on the people of Tsarist Russia. The first imperialist world war had left…
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Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena, Clinton Fernandes
Book Review by Sam KingSub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International ArenaClinton Fernandes, Melbourne University Press (2022) Fernandes’ short and readable book is useful to anyone…
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Red Ant’s founding Statement of Principles and Perspectives
At its conference in Sydney – held in August 2022 – the new Red Ant Collective adopted a founding Statement of Principles and Perspectives. A…
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Australia’s Imperialist Foreign Policy
By Nick D. The following was presented on the panel, The Need for Anti-Imperialism in Australia, which took place on day one of Red Ant’s…
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“Notes on Exterminism” for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements
by John Bellamy Foster In 1980, the great English historian and Marxist theorist E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class…
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Hugo Chávez: Bourgeois Nationalist or Socialist Revolutionary?
By Sam King The article below was written in the aftermath of Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5th, 2013 as part of internal discussion within…
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The Labour Aristocracy: A Crucial Marxist Theory in an Imperialist World
By Danial Nikovich In 2022, there is every chance the Australian Labor Party (ALP) will win the federal election. Does this mean we are in…