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In the modern world of revolutionary politics (or lack thereof), there must be a definitive example of exactly what revolutionary politics are. Revolution is the radical overthrow of traditional rule, and the building of a structure completely different. Therefore, all radical and revolutionary movements are confined by these terms. To be deemed revolutionary, the movement must truly be looking to overthrow this rule in favor of one much different. This is why the Left is the only outpost for radicals looking to emancipate the world. The Left is the only current of revolutionary thought, splintered and thinned by a ridiculous amount of tributaries though it may be, it is still the only truly revolutionary ideology in the world. Neoliberalism, and its new found counterpart and contributing factor: neoconservatism, looks to finish off economic conquest through imperialism. It would see the world as a completely interdependent system of capitalist exploitation from the first world onto the third world. The reasons for this are quite clear, the monopoly on capital...

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The Nuclear Client State Gone Awry: Iran's Reasonable and Determined Drive to Acquire Nuclear Capabilities, and the History of U.S. Nuclear Assistance During the Shah's Reign that Legitimizes Iran's Ongoing Nuclear Project and Exposes the Hypocrisy of Current U.S. Rhetoric by Comrade-Z “They're already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy.”—such is the current rhetoric of Vice President Dick Cheney, despite the fact that Cheney, along with many other current top figures in the current Bush Administration, had been working in top posts under President Ford at the very time that the Ford Administration was making the opposite case in favor of giving U.S. support to an Iranian nuclear program that the U.S. trumpeted as essential.1 Such historical inconsistencies on the part of the U.S. government cut to the heart of the current debate over whether Iran should be allowed to have its own independent civilian nuclear energy program. Iran currently insists, as the U.S. did 30 years ago,...

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I believe a proper understanding of Marxism and a general disspelling of generalizations should be taken in defense of Marxism, and I think foremost and most important of all is class struggle, without Marx's concept of historical materialism socialism maybe just be a fascist movement. Marx posited that historical material conditions formed the basis for class struggle, and that the proletarianization of the working class bring a sharp divide in the material interests between the proletariat and bourgeois. You must understand therefore the two economic dictatorships: the dictatorship of the bourgeois and the proletariat - both are the absolute opposite of each other, and both breed opposite results in material conditions. Think of it like this, the bourgeois dictatorship as the opposite of the proletarian one will naturally make horrible material conditions, and naturally cause more division and class struggle between the rich and poor. The proletarian dictatorship (socialism) is the opposite and breeds better material conditions because the interests of the proletariat...

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The role and significance of sub-cultural style and its relationship to mainstream culture, moreover its political connotations have been an area of contention within sub-cultural theory. A seminal account of sub-cultural dynamics was postulated by Hebdige who drew on theories from disciplines diverse as Semiotics and Anthropology. Hebdige considered sub-cultural style to be grounded in the re-appropriation and subversion of the mainstream cultural order by alienated groups. This implies that style itself has a political dimension and that sub-cultural style is innately politically challenging (effectively or not) within the power relations of society. The task of this paper will be to shed further light on Hebdige’s theory of sub-cultural style as a form of re-appropriation and insubordination, building up from the theoretical antecedents to an application of the theory to punk subculture. Additionally, I will evaluate Hebdige’s thesis on the nature of sub-cultural style and its political dimensions. The thesis advanced by Hebdige on the dynamics and significance...

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Brief History, and outline, of some of the Human Rights violations under Colonial, and post-Colonial Australia toward Indigenous people. Like all colonial nations, established under the guidance and command of an empire, Australia has a history of Human rights abuses. What could be argued as an Apartheid-like-system was what Australia look liked; with racial segregation, racial oppression, and white dominance – and indeed, White Nationalist promotion by some of Australia’s – as a nation – founding fathers. Though White Nationalism is not a human rights abuse in itself, it is a mentality which leads to human rights abuses, in the form of racial oppression. From the Bathurst Massacre of 1824, where martial law was declared and 100 Aboriginal people were killed; to the modern day example of the Northern Territory intervention – which Mob from Redfern and the N.T. have dubbed as the Northern Territory invasion – we can see this continue. Historically, we have many examples. The initial invasion of Australia in 1788 is in fact a breach of Article 12 of the...

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In the late 1960s a group of black militants burst onto the scene to capture the hearts and minds of inner city youth with fiery rhetoric and words as slick as their black leather jackets. Through armed police brutality patrols and calls for "power to the people", the Black Panther Party embodied the radicalization of the Black Struggle and inspired a generation of young people to become politically active. The Party however, was not just a Self-Defense organization. Early on, founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, articulated their immediate demands and political positions into a ten point program. In the autobiography of Bobby Seale, Seize the Time, explains the importance of the ten point program. Huey said, "We need a program. We have to have a program for the people. A program that relates to the people. A program that the people can understand. A program that the people can read and see, and which expresses their desires and needs at the same time. It's got to relate to the philosophical meaning of where in the world we are going, but the...

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The Naxalite movement: A Political and economic critique. (Paper presented by Stevensen, 2007 October, at revolutionary-left.com.) Brief about the social dynamics of India: As a developing nation, India possesses some striking singularities. What are these? These are, a growing economy, a springing up of modern cities and isolated rural areas where life is little different from what it was ages ago. Also deserving to be included is a clear decline of the dominant share of the contribution of agriculture to the GDP from what it was even a decade or two ago. Unlike Europe, India is a vast and hugely populated nation. At the extreme ends there are two kinds of lives lead by the populace in this nation. One, by the privileged city man (here I must mention that the demarcation in city life has grown more pronounced, a burgeoning few have actually substantially increased their standard of living but along with that has also come an increase in the number of squatters and people living in slums, an estimate shows that one quarter of India’s population lives in...

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RACHEL CHAN A new crime has been discovered - that is committed by those who may be studying criminology itself. Paraphrasing Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen in the Guardian, this crime is that of committing sociology. Dr. Andrej Holm, scholar of the gentrification of communities living near the Berlin Wall post-crumbling, has been detained for the deviousness of having "similar" phrases as to those used in correspondence by terrorist organisations. He is further indicted by the fact that he is an academic who has access to a public library. Now witch-burners alike should of course, bear in mind the all-universal truth that any academic who has access to a library is inherently a dangerous mind. Perhaps people have an irrational fear of the discipline whose modern variant arose from the French Revolution itself. Chronologically throughout history, sociologists have been hounded with suspicion with the allegation that they are dangerous people whose only raison d'etre is to change society. Therefore concepts which radicalise opinions about the given...

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I just wrote this article. I'm posting it here, and any constructive critisicm is welcome. It is 12:30 at night, and I am tired, so there might be a few errors. Anarchy and Order Order can only come from the free arrangement of peoples. That being, if forced, then it will not be order, it will be obedience, it will be of instability; and it will be a result of coercion. People are not asked, but they are told. Coerced into lives chosen by others above them, who pretend to act in the interests of those people. However full proof this may seem, it is bound to collapse. It creates tension, and hatred, and denies true freedom, regardless of the illusion it creates. Law and Order is not so, Law is disorder, law is chaos. Why? Law is only necessary in a society with inequality; either with a state, or with capitalism. It is a mechanism which is used to repress dissidence, to maintain “business as usual”; to keep the interests of those in power in place. And in thus, it violates ones liberty. It results in people feeling worthless. People no longer place value...

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Polish Revolt of 1956 The city woke up to a rebellion. The smell of revolt spread around each corner. Workers took the streets and decided to go to arms. Taken by force, they did not break down. Experience of the struggle was transferred to the next generation which repeated the endeavor. Back again surrounded they fell, repeating it with more enthusiasm and clarity, into yet another isolation, defeat, and a new state of cyclic friction. In this manner we could describe every revolutionary quake that threatened with its energy and power to shake down the existing order of things during the whole 20th century. However many historians, journalists and politicians try to fit the revolt of Polish workers into its unnatural ideological frame, the fact remains that – because of its essential being – it cannot be torn out of the context of “underground” history which repeated itself on essentially same basis, but with specifically new conditions which gave each of them a new and richer meaning. That underground history we call by the one name: Revolution. The 1956 events...