Fourth self-contained session: "The ABC of national liberation movements" an article by Hal Draper Contact WL for copies of reading: 0419 493 421 or @ http://www.workersliberty.org.uk/files/draperabc.pdf Monday 10 March 2003. 7:30 pm Café Blue. 313 King Street Newtown (2 mins opp station towards city) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workersliberty.org/australia
Socialism From Below A Marxist Discussion series sponsored by Workers' Liberty Sydney We have examined the Hal Draper's pamphlet "The Two Souls of Socialism" and the first three extracts from his 4 Volume work "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution" What the Marxist Internet Archive has to say about Hal Draper: "From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and a socialist activist. In the 50s, a time of general collapse and demoralization in the American left, Draper edited the weekly Labor Action, a political journal widely read in Europe as well as the United States because of its uncompromising rejection of the American consensus which did not depend on accepting that other form of despair – the slavish defense of "real existing socialism" as the only alternative. It was not possible, of course, to remain in opposition to the "real existing crap" of both sides of the Cold War without rethinking the history of the movement. Draper's 4-volume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution is his principal achievement in this regard." (http://www.marxists.org/) Socialism From Below Hal Draper series No. 4 A Marxist Discussion Group sponsored by Workers' Liberty Sydney We have examined the Hal Draper's pamphlet "The Two Souls of Socialism" and the first three extracts from his 4 Volume work "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution" What the Marxist Internet Archive has to say about Hal Draper: "From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and a socialist activist. In the 50s, a time of general collapse and demoralization in the American left, Draper edited the weekly Labor Action, a political journal widely read in Europe as well as the United States because of its uncompromising rejection of the American consensus which did not depend on accepting that other form of despair – the slavish defense of "real existing socialism" as the only alternative. It was not possible, of course, to remain in opposition to the "real existing crap" of both sides of the Cold War without rethinking the history of the movement. Draper's 4-volume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution is his principal achievement in this regard." (http://www.marxists.org/) Fourth self-contained session: "The ABC of national liberation movements" an article by Hal Draper Contact WL for copies of reading: 0419 493 421 or @ http://www.workersliberty.org.uk/files/draperabc.pdf Monday 10 March 2003. 7:30 pm Café Blue. 313 King Street Newtown (2 mins opp station towards city) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workersliberty.org/australia Join us in discussing Marxist ideas As well as mobilising in our trade unions and community groups Workers' Liberty members and supporters are always interested in discussing the best Marxist approach for solving problems such as those of war and poverty which face humanity. The next in our current series of discussions examines why in the struggle against the US led war on Iraq, in movements for national self-determination and in movements for national liberation an independent `third camp' of working class politics needs to be strengthened. We say there is more choice available to socialists than just the politics of pro- imperialism or "the anti-imperialism of idiots" Discuss why concretely this means actions such as mobilising unionists to stop work to stop Australian involvement in the war, and to ban the shipment of war goods for the US led war, combined with solidarity with the peoples of Iraq who oppose Saddam. Join us in our reading group, currently discussing the works of Hal Draper, an American Marxist. The ABC of National Liberation Movements will be the basis of our discussion on 10 March. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
