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Now Online: Historical Materialism, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2017

THE DILEMMAS OF LENIN: TERRORISM, WAR, EMPIRE, LOVE, REVOLUTION

What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis

Communism for Kids

By Bini Adamczak

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10 Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts,
Nov. 2016–April 2017
Please join the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) for their 2016/17 public lectures series in collaboration with Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School, University of the Arts London. The lectures are free and open to the public but require registration for each event through Eventbrite by clicking on the relevant lecture title on the CRMEP events page.
 
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This Virtual Special Issue brings together a selection of articles from Revolutionary Russia to commemorate the centenary of the momentous events in Russia over the course of 1917. It was a year that witnessed the demise of autocracy, popular revolution, the spread of democracy, and the rise of revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond. The range of articles carefully curated by the editors of the Revolutionary Russia go as far back as 1988 and the start of the Journal. 

Wang Shiwei (1907-47) was a writer and translator. He is best known in China today as the author (in 1942) of “Wild Lily”, an essay supportive but critical of China’s wartime Communist Party, for which he worked as a writer in Yan’an, the Chinese Communists’ capital in the Anti-Japanese War. Wang Shiwei, though not himself an out-and-out Trotskyist, had strong personal ties to Wang Fanxi and other Chinese Trotskyists, and translated Lenin’s Testament for them. Writing “Wild Lily”, which criticised inequality, authoritarianism, and lack of “love and humanity” in the wartime Communist movement, led to his arrest and imprisonment. He was sent to work in a matchbox factory in Yan’an. He refused to recant, and continued to insist that Wang Fanxi was a “Communist of humanity.” During the evacuation of Yan’an in 1947, in the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Shiwei was hacked to death with a sword on a river bank near Yan’an, an execution of which Mao Zedong is said to have disapproved. Since the start of People’s China in 1949, “Wild Lily” has featured in every movement of dissent, in part because the Maoists liked to brandish it at critics as “negative study material” with which to frighten them, so it was nearly always available. This film about Wang Shiwei was made for Hong Kong TV by the radical filmmaker and academic Louisa Wei, an admirer of the Chinese Trotskyists. Her next film is about Wang Fanxi.

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:

Publication of ‘Bob Crow – socialist, leader, fighter’ by Gregor Gall