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September 2021

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16 September 2021: Added to the Yemelyan Yaroslavsky Internet Archive :

What is Fascism 1941
[Thanks to Anton P.]

16 September 2021: Added to the Georg Lukacs Internet Arhive :

Hegel and the Nazis 1943
[Thanks toTuff Gong]

September 12, 2021 Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism Online: COMbat, a publication of The Communist League:

September 1975: The £6 Confidence Trick 265 KB PDF
Special Issue: Stalin: The Myth and the Reality 4.4 MB PDF
[Thanks to Marxism-Leninism Currents Today]

September 11, 2021 Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism Online: COMbat, a publication of The Communist League. Britain's Communist League organization published COMbat from 1976 through to 1991 and William B. Bland was the publication's most prolific contributor.

September 1975: Socialism and Fascism/Racism and the Ruling Class 1.4 MB PDF
November 1975: November 1976: Fascism In Italy; It Could Happen Here 2.6 MB PDF
[Thanks to Marxism-Leninism Currents Today]

September 9, 2021: Created the Ricardo Flores Magón Archive: Revolutionary Leader of the Mexican, Anarchist Militias. Thanks to RevoltLib.com!

1910: To Woman
1910: Two Revolutionaries
1911: Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party
1911: The Mexican People are Suited to Communism
1911: Onwards!
1911: The Rifle
1911: The Right of Property
1911: Voluntary Slavery
1911: Without Bosses
1912: A Catastrophe
1914: Justice!
1915: The Anxieties of Iron
1915: The Barricade and the Trench
1915: The Beggar and the Thief
1915: The Frock Coat and the Blouse
1915: New Life
1915: The Triumph of the Social Revolution
1915: The Two Pens
1916: Rewarding Merits
1916: The Worker and the Machine
1916: Land and Liberty
1921: Magón To Harry Weinberger
1922: Magón To Erma Barsky
1923: Collected Works
[Thanks to Andy Carloff.]

September 8, 2021: Created the Francisco Ferrer Archive: Father of Anarchist Schooling and Martyred Leader of Spanish Freethought. You may recognize his name from the Marxists.org Religion Archive — well, now, we have his works and are hosting them! Thanks to RevoltLib.com!

1905: Against Bull-Fighting and Human Exploitation
1913: The Origins and Ideals of the Modern School
[Thanks to Andy Carloff.]

September 7, 2021: Completed the Marie Louise Berneri Archive: Anarchist Author, Journalist, and Popularizer of Modern Psychology. Thanks to RevoltLib.com!

1941: Utopias of the English Revolution
1942: Stakhanovism and the British Workers
1943: Italy After 1918
1944: Brennan’s Spanish Labyrinth
1945: Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution
[Thanks to Andy Carloff.]

7 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Mandel Archive:

Por que Keynes não é a resposta? O crepúsculo do monetarismo, 1992
Rosa Luxemburgo e a social-democracia alemã, 1971
[Thanks to Gabriel Carvalho, Pedro Barbosa, Vinicius Souza and Sidarta Landarini]

7 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Hoxha Archive:

Agressores, fora do Afeganistão!, 1980
[Thanks to Lucas Cenir Friederich]

7 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Korsch Archive:

A luta dos trabalhadores contra o fascismo, 1941
[Thanks to Crítica Desapiedada, Leonardo da Cruz Boesing and Fernando Araújo]

September 6, 2021: Completed the Renzo Novatore Archive: Italian Illegalist, Anarcho-Individualist, Anti-Fascist Poet and Rebel. Thanks to RevoltLib.com!

Articles

1917: Thoughts and Sayings
1919: Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution
1919: The Expropriator
1919: Returning
1919: Towards the Hurricane
1920: A Life
1920: Of Individualism and Rebellion
1920: Let’s Exalt Life!
1920: I Am Also a Nihilist
1920: The Anarchist Temperament in the Maelstrom of History
1920: In the Circle of Life : In Memory of Bruno Filippi
1920: My Maxims (From My Intimate Thoughts Notebook)
1921: In The Reign of The Phantoms
1921: My Iconoclastic Individualism
1921: The Revolt of the Unique
1923: In Defense of Heroic and Expropriating Anarchism
1924: Toward the Creative Nothing
unknown: Between the Two Anarchies
unknown: Intellectual Vagabonds

Poetry and Prose

1917: Cry of Rebellion
1917: Wild Flowers
1920: Black Roses
1920: Spiritual Perversity
1921: The Dream of My Adolescence
1922: Black Flags
1922: Noontime Songs
1922: With Sincere Pity
unknown: A "Female"
unknown: Twilight Dance
[Thanks to Andy Carloff.]

5 September 2021 Added to the Bill Bland Internet Archive:

The Pakistani Revolution (2001) 1.2 MB PDF
W.B. Bland's extensive study of Pakistan's mass uprising of 1969, originally published by Alliance-ML in 2001. [Thanks to Marxism-Leninism Currents Today]

September 4, 2021: Completed the Proudhon Archive. If you want to see a before/after picture, take a look at it now compared to a 2003 Archive.org Snapshot. Thanks to RevoltLib.com!

5 September 2021: We start adding a collection of Selected Works (Obras escogidas) to the Spanish section's Archivo Leon Trotsky, starting with:

Informe de la delegación siberiana (1903)
Nuestras tareas políticas (1904)
La guerra y la Internacional (1914)
Programa de paz (1917)
¿Y ahora qué? (1917)
La lucha por el poder estatal (1918)
El triunfo del bolchevismo (1918)
Terrorismo y comunismo (El anti-Kautsky) (1920)
Una escuela de estrategia revolucionaria (1921)
Nueva etapa (1921)
Entre el imperialismo y la revolución (1921)
El nuevo curso (y anexos) (1923)
Problemas de la vida cotidiana (1924)
La nueva política económica de los soviets y la revolución mundial (1923)
Los cinco primeros años de la Internacional Comunista (1924)
Perspectivas de la revolución mundial (1924)
1917: el año de la revolución
Las lecciones de Octubre (1924)
Nuestras divergencias (1924)
¿A dónde va Inglaterra? seguido de Europa y América (1925)
Perfiles políticos (1926)
La revolución china y las tesis del camarada Stalin (1927)
Plataforma de la oposición conjunta (1927)
La crisis del bloque centro-derecha (1928)
Mis peripecias en España (1926)
La Internacional Comunista después de Lenin (Stalin, el gran organizador de derrotas) (nuevos anexos) (1929)
La revolución desfigurada (1929)
La revolución permanente (1930)
La revolución estrangulada (1932)
¿Y ahora? Problemas vitales del proletariado alemán (1932)
El único camino (1932)
¿Socialismo en un solo país? (1934)
¿A dónde va Francia? (con anexos) (1936)
Bolchevismo y estalinismo ¿Por qué somos bolchevique-leninistas? ¿Qué significa la lucha contra el trotskysmo? Clase, partido y dirección (Anexos) (1937)
Su moral y la nuestra (1938)
El Programa de Transición. La agonía del capitalismo y las tareas de la Cuarta Internacional (El congreso de fundación de la IV Internacional y otros anexos) (1938)
El marxismo y nuestra época (1939)
La lucha contra el fascismo (anexos: la construcción del partido de la revolución socialista mundial y la lucha contra la guerra imperialista mundial) (1944)
Liberación de la mujer trabajadora, familia, lucha de clases, revolución proletaria y sociedad de transición al socialismo: 'la cuestión de la mujer' (Recopilaci?n de materiales de Le?n Trotsky) [Anexos: Cintia Frencia y Daniel Gaido, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Alejandra Kollontai, Eleanor Marx, F. Engels, C. Marx, I. Armand, Lenin, Consejo de Comisarios del Pueblo, Internacional Comunista, Internacional de Mujeres Socialistas]
[Thanks to Edicions Internacionals Sedov]

5 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Nikita Khrushchev Archive:

Carta para Fidel Castro (primeira carta), 1962
Carta para Fidel Castro (segunda carta), 1962
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

5 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Fidel Castro Archive:

5 September 2021: Added to the Swedish Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:

A theory which has not withstood the test of facts (1990)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

4 September 2021: Added to the Sosialistinen opiskelijaliitto archive:

SOL:n taisteluohjelma Suomen opiskelijoille, 1973
[Thanks to Joonas Laine]

4 September 2021: Added to the Opintoaineistoarkisto archive:

Tuntematon: Ay-tietouden peruskurssi, 1973
[Thanks to Joonas Laine]

3 September 2021: Added to the Irish Marxist Review Archive:

EditorialJohn Molyneux: Editorial (2015)
Kieran Allen & Seán Mitchell: Irish Politics after the Elections, by (2015)
Brian O’Boyle: Plumbing the Depths – The Ongoing Crisis of Global Capitalism (2016)
Mike Gonzalez: Venezuela – A Revolution That Lost Its Way (2016)
Memet Uludag: Direct Provision – An Indictment (2016)
Paul O’Brien: James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army (2016)
John Molyneux: Shakespeare 400 years on (2016)
Eoghan Conaughton: James Joyce – the Slender Irish Tenor (2016)
Robert Ballagh: 1916 – Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition (book review) (2016)
Tina MacVeigh: A Very Capitalist Condition (book review) (2016)
Mark Walshe: Big Jim Larkin – Hero or Wrecker? (book review) (2016)
John Molyneux: Contributors (2016)
John Molyneux: Editorial (2016)
Melisa Halpin & Peadar O’Grady: Equality, Democracy, Solidarity: The Politics of Abortion (2016)
Kieran Allen: Into the limelight: tax haven Ireland (2016)
Marnie Holborow: Can the European Union be reformed? (2016)
John Molyneux: Secularism, Islamophobia and the politics of religion (2016)
A Socialist in Stormont, an interview with Gerry Carroll MLA (2016)
Alan Byrne: Fianna Fáil: Past and Present (2015)
Ivanka Antova: The socialist tradition in the disability movement: Lessons for contemporary activists (2016)
Dave O’Farrell: Science, Politics and Public Policy (2016)
Damian Lawlor: The Starry Plough – a historical note (2016)
Shaun Doherty: The Politics of James Connolly (book review) (2016)
Conor Kennelly: From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation (book review) (2016)
[All articles are also available in PDF format. All articles copyright © Irish Marxist Review unless otherwise stated.]
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, John Molyneux, Memet Uludag & Irish Marxist Review]

3 September 2021: Added to the International Socialist Review (ISO-US) Archive:

Paul D’Amato: The Democrats and the Death Penalty (1999)
Lance Selfa: Gay Politics in the U.S., (1999)
Tom Lewis: Chile – The State and Revolution, by (1999)
Joel Geier: Can the U.S. Escape the Gobal Crisis? by (1999)
Notes of the Quarter: The war for NATO’s credibility (1999)
Notes of the Quarter: The liberal’s war (1999)
Notes of the Quarter: Clinton – Bipartisan president (1999)
Paul D’Amato: Origins of the war in the Balkans (1999)
Leonard Kline & Paul D’Amato: Why Kosovo is not Serbia (1999)
Lance Selfa: U.S. Imperialism: A century of slaughter (1999)
Lance Selfa: “What we say goes”: The Gulf War of 1991 (1999)
Bridget Broderick: Can the UN bring peace? (1999)
Notes of the Quarter: New Masters of the Balkans (1999)
Paul D’Amato: Bosnia: Model for a New Colonialism? (1999)
Lance Selfa: From Cold War to Kosovo, by (1999)
Phil Gasper: The Roots of Serbian Nationalism (1999)
Joel Geier: Marxism and War (1997)
Lance Selfa: U.S. Imperialism After Kosovo (1999)
Katherine Dwyer: School of the Assassins (1999)
Paul D’Amato: Marxism and Oppression (1999)
Joel Geier: Vietnam: the Soldiers’ Rebellion, by (1999)
Saman Sepehri: The Iranian Revolution (1997)
Saman Sepehri: Iran at the Crossroads, by (1997)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, & International Socialist Review Archive]

2 September 2021: Added to the new Gordon Haskell Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

Steel Strike Raises Some Basic Issues in Militant Unionism and Class Politics (radio broadcast) (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Irving Howe Archive:

John Dewey at 90 (as R.F.) (1946)
Newest Biography of Stalin Gives a Balanced Portrait (as R. Fahan) (book review) (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the new Carlos Hudson Archive:

544-CIO Contract Is 10¢ an Hour Higher Than Tobin’s (as Jack Ranger) (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Stanley Plastrik Archive:

Russia Has the Bomb – What’s Next as Second Stage of Cold War Opens? (as Henry Judd) (1949)
Is a Russian Offensive Due? Western Europe Faces Critical Period (column) (as Henry Judd) (1946)
Army vs. Navy (letter) (as Henry Judd) (1946)
Nehru Visits United States – A Profile of India’s Government Leader (column) (as Henry Judd) (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the new Art Preis Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

What Colonial People Think About the War (1942)
British Labor Party Leaders Oppose National Liberation for People of India (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2019: Added to the Jack Weber (Louis Jacobs) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

Vladivostok – Key to the Pacific War (as A. Roland) (1942)
Lessons of the Last War (as A. Roland) (1942)
Lessons of the Last War – 2 (as A. Roland) (1942)
The United States Is for Free Trade in British Empire (as A. Roland) (1942)
America After the War – Golden Future or Chaos? (as A. Roland) (1941)
Guthrie Resignation Shows Bosses Can’t Plan Production (as A. Roland) (1942)
Technocracy Evolves Openly Toward Fascism (as A. Roland) (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the B.J. Widick Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

UAW Men Disappointed by Contract with Ford (as Walter Jason) (1949)
Discontent Spreads in UAW Ranks Against Ford Contract Provisions (as Walter Jason) (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

How Much Longer Can Capitalism Stand War Strain? (1942)
How Stalin Greeted Red Army’s 24th Anniversary (1942)
How Stalin Greeted Red Army’s 24th Anniversary (1942)
Agrarian Revolution Is Key to Struggle in India (1942)
Indian Masses Must Call for Constituent Assembly (1942)
The Role of Democratic Demands in India Today (1942)
British Bayonets Uphold Rule of Native Princes (1942)
Stalinists Have Revived Plea For ‘Second Front’ (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Mary Bell Archive:

UE Leaders Carry Split Motion at Convention (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the new George Breitman Archive:

How a German Worker Might Answer Manifesto of German-Soviet Committee (as Anthony Massini) (1942)
New Boards to Control Seas and Shipping Now – and After War (as Albert Parker) (1942)
C.P. Begins New Lynch Campaign in Cleveland (as Anthony Massini) (1942)
The Negro Struggle (as Albert Parker) (1942)
Another Negro Lynched; More Soldiers in ‘Riot’ (as Albert Parker) (1942)
CP Joins Government in Hiding Truth About the Browder Case (as Anthony Massini) (1942)
The Negro Struggle (as Albert Parker) (1941)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Grace Carlson Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

Grace Carlson’s Radio Speech (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Charles Curtiss Archive:

British Labor Party Leaders Betray Masses of Both India and England (as C. Charles) (1942)
Commune Charted Way to Workers’ Freedom (as C. Charles) (1942)
Why Philippine Masses Have Not Been Rallied to Support of War (as C. Charles) (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the James M. Fenwick Archive:

Battle of the Pentagon Is Conflict over Strategy of Slaughter in Third World War (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Emanuel Garrett Archive:

U.S. Loses Monopoly on A-Bomb; Arms Race in Super-Weapons Looms (1949)
House Bill to Expand Social Security Was Won by Strikes (1949)
Convention Faces Challenge to Knit Labor Front Against Boss Offensive (1948)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2020: Added to the Susan Green Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

Why Big Steel Forced a Strike: Aims to Revive Taft-Hartleyism (1949)
Lewis Asks Joint Labor Fund to Aid Steel Strike (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Ben Hall (Herman Benson) Archive:

CP Unions Get Ready to Split from CIO as Convention Nears (1949)
It’s Tough Going for Strikes Today – What’s CIO’s Answer? (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Harry Braverman Archive:

The 59th Anniversary of the Death of Karl Marx (as Harry Frankel) (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:

Good-Bye, Tom Mooney! (19421)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Hal Draper Archive:

Yugos Adopt New Role in UN, Hit 1936 Purges (1949)
Also available as a Economic Snags and Purges Haunt Stalinist Power Behind Iron Curtain (1949)
Tito’s “Left Wing” (1949)
Also available as a Warren’s “Classes” (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the George Novack Archive:

Clement Opposition in S.P. Is Typical Centrist Group (1942) (as William F. Warde)
The Liberals and the War (1942) (as William F. Warde)
Norman Thomas Does Not See ‘Practical’ Alternative to War (1942) (as William F. Warde)
GPU Lynch Campaign Is on International Scale (1941) (as William F. Warde)
Roosevelt and the War Crisis (1942) (as William F. Warde)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the George Padmore Archive:

Atlantic Charter Not Intended for Colonies (1942)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Max Shachtman Archive:

Stalinism Is Not Socialism! (Joint Statement by Three Socialist Tendencies) (1949)
A Blow at Democracy, a Gift to the Kremlin (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

2 September 2021: Added to the Natalia Sedova Trotsky Archive:

Natalia Trotsky’s Views on Malamuth’s Editing (1941)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]

1 September 2021: Added to the Portuguese Amílcar Cabral Archive:

Fortalecer a segurança e disciplina em todos os setores da luta
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

1 September 2021: Added to the Marxist Internet Archive's Subject Section is the new The Marxists Internet Archive's RELIGION Subject Section: Religion & Marxists, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists:

Background

Religion is a natural force of conservatism, tradition, and the established power structures. For this reason, those who have wanted to change society have always come into conflict with the forces of religion. And this is certainly the case with the left: Marxists, Anarchists, Communists, and Socialists.
a socialist selling a newspaper
Photo by David Parry,
released under CC BY-NC-ND License

Leftist Movements and Atheism
Socialism

Early Socialists emerged at a time when Liberals, Communists, and Anarchists all began to posit a new way forward for humanity. And with a focus on mankind, many early Socialists adopted Atheism or, at least, something less conventional than the established religion.

• 1887 — Church Parades — E. Belfort Bax
• 1870-1875 — The Religion of Social-Democracy — Joseph Dietzgen
• 1879 — The Future of Religion — August Bebel
• 1884 — Socialism and Religion — E. Belfort Bax
• 1886 — The Religion of Socialism — E. Belfort Bax
• 1890 — The Decay of Pagan Thought — E. Belfort Bax
• 1894 — Socialism and Religious Beliefs — Enrico Ferri
• 1895 — “Religion” and Socialism — E. Belfort Bax
• 1896 — A Socialist’s View of Religion and the Churches — Tom Mann
• 1897 — The Eastern Question and the International Socialist Party — Christian Rakovsky
• 1899 — Socialism and Religion — James Connolly
• 1901 — Dechristianization — Jean Jaurès
• 1903 — Clericalism and the Socialist Attitude Thereto — August Bebel
• 1903 — Clericalism and Socialism — E. Belfort Bax
• 1904 — Wages, Marriage and the Church — Daniel De Leon, James Connolly
• 1905 — Christianity and Socialism — E. Belfort Bax
• 1907 — Maxim Gorky on Religion and Socialism — S.N. Preeve, Maxim Gorky
• 1910 — The Bankruptcy of Traditional Religions — E. Belfort Bax
• 1910 — Belated Prophets — Dora B. Montefiore
• 1910 — Labour, Nationality and Religion — James Connolly
• 1914 — The New Religion of the Possessing Classes — E. Belfort Bax
• 1918 — The Churches and Socialism — Dora B. Montefiore
• 1928 — Church, School, and Press — George Bernard Shaw
• 1930 — Why I am an Atheist — Bhagat Singh
• 1958 — Religion and Social Revolt — Cliff Slaughter
karl marx statue
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released under CC BY-SA License
Marxism

Karl Marx is known for the quote "Religion is the opium of the masses." Like many others of the Left, Marx was an Atheist.

• 1843 — Introduction to Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right — Karl Marx
• 1844 — Articles for The New Moral World by Frederick Engels — Frederick Engels
• 1845 — Religion and Philosophy of the Union — Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
• 1845 — The Holy Family — Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
• 1855 — Anti-Church Movement — Karl Marx
• 1881 — Engels To Jenny Longuet — Marx-Engels Correspondence
• 1882 — Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity — Frederick Engels
• 1883 — The Book of Revelation — Frederick Engels
• 1887 — Lawyers' Socialism — Frederick Engels
• 1894 — On the History of Early Christianity — Frederick Engels
• 1902 — Clericalism and Socialism — Paul Lafargue
• 1903 — Clericalism and the Socialist Attitude Thereto — Karl Kautsky
• 1904 — Synopsis of Lecture ‘Scientific Socialism and Religion’ — Georgi Plekhanov
• 1908 — Foundations of Christianity — Karl Kautsky
• 1909 — Kautsky's Foundations of Christianity — E. Belfort Bax
• 1909 — On Mr Guyau’s Book — Georgi Plekhanov
• 1909 — On the So-Called Religious Seekings in Russia — Georgi Plekhanov
• 1925 — Review of Kautsky's "Foundations of Christianity" — Jack Fitzgerald
• 1940s — Socialism and Religion — F.A. Ridley
• 1940 — Church and God-Manhood in Russian Religious Philosophy — Gregory Bienstock
• 1940 — Religion, War and Nazism — Edgar Hardcastle
• 1948 — A Debate on the Social Philosophy of Marxism vs. Catholicism — Max Shachtman & Father Owen Rice
• 1949 — The Evolution of the Papacy — F. A. Ridley
• 1949 — The Breath of Discontent: A Study in Bourgeois Religion — Christopher Cauldwell
• 1963 — Theism and Atheism — Max Horkheimer
• 2000 — Dialogue: “The War of Gods”: Marxism and Christianity — Michael Löwy and Terry Murphy
• 2003 — Why Marxists Are Atheists — League for the Revolutionary Party
• 2007 — Not Just Opium — Paul Blackledge
• 2008 — More than opium: Marxism and religion — John Molyneux
• 2008 — The God Question — Terry Eagleton
• 2009 — The full story: on Marxism and religion — Roland Boer
• 2011 — War on the Heavens: The Rise of the New Atheism — Terry Liddle
lenin statue
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Leninism

The Soviet Union was the first state established with Atheism as its official creed, reminiscent of the Deist "Temple of Reason" established during the French Revolution. Leninists have almost always been staunch Atheists.

• 1905 — Socialism and Religion — Vladimir Lenin
• 1909 — The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion — Vladimir Lenin
• 1909 — Classes and Parties in Their Attitude to Religion and the Church — Vladimir Lenin
• 1913 — Organisations of the Masses by the German Catholics — Vladimir Lenin
• 1918 — Communism, the Church and the State — A.K. Voronsky
• 1918 — The Decline of the Church — Louise Bryant
• 1919 — Church and School in the Soviet Republic — Nikolai Bukharin
• 1920 — Communism and Religion — N.I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky
• 1922 — Bolshevism & Church Property — D. Ivon Jones
• 1922 — On the Significance of Militant Materialism — Vladimir Lenin
• 1923 — Tikon and the Russian Church — Louise Bryant

Stalinism

• 1924 — Religion, Art and Marxism — A. Bogdanov
• 1924 — The Conflict Between Communism and Religion — Leslie Mason
• 1927 — Religion I and Religion II — August Thalheimer
• 1929 — The Struggle for the Russian Soul — William Henry Chamberlin
• 1930 — Finance Capital in Papal Robes: A Challenge! — Nikolai Bukharin
• 1933 — Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia: Religious and Civil Liberty and Law — Arthur Newsholme, John Adams Kingsbury
• 1936 — Soviet Russia and Religion — Corliss Lamont
• 1936 — What About Religion? — Earl Browder
• 1938 — A Message to Catholics — Earl Browder
• 1939 — Religion and Communism — Earl Browder
• 1943 — Religion and Reaction in Russia — Harry Young
• 1949 — Stalinist War on Church in East Is Not Over Religion but Power — William Barton
• 1949 — Anti-Catholic Drive Is On; Exile Government in Crisis — A. Rudzienski

Trotskyism

• 1935 — Gods and Society — Felix Morrow
• 1936 — The Church Struggle Under Fascism — Leon Trotsky
• 1937 — Spanish Anti-Fascist Movement Slandered by Church Hierarchy — Felix Morrow
• 1940 — An Open Letter to Comrade Burnham — Leon Trotsky
• 1945 — Religion in the Soviet Union — Denzil Dean Harber
• 1960 — Viva Cristo Rey! — Albert Weisbord

Council Communism

Council Communism was a movement that considered Bolshevik and Soviet Communism to be far too dominating, authoritarian, and party-centric, suggesting that a more Libertarian, socially-based Communism would be preferable.

• 1903 — An anti-clerical policy of Socialism — Rosa Luxembourg
• 1905 — Socialism and The Churches — Rosa Luxembourg
• 1907 — Socialism and Religion — Anton Pannekoek
• 1936 — Communism and Religion — Anton Pannekoek
• 1947 — Religion — Anton Pannekoek

Christian Socialism

• 1903 — The Christian Socialist Fellowship: A Brief Account of its Origin and Progress — E.E. Carr
• 1906 — Consitution of the Christian Socialist Fellowship (1906) — Christian Socialist Fellowship
• 1909 — Consitution of the Christian Socialist Fellowship (1909) — Christian Socialist Fellowship
• 1964 — Social Christian Revolutionary Youth Condemns Persecution Against Haitians — Listin Diario
• 1970 — Marxism and Christianity: Are They Compatible? — Theodore Edwards & Rev. Blase Bonpane
• 2002 — Martin Luther King: Christian Core, Socialist Bedrock — Paul Le Blanc
anarchist atheism

Social Anarchism

• 1871 — God and the State — Mikhail Bakunin
• 1890 — The Economic Tendency of Freethought — Voltairine de Cleyre
• 1908 — Does God Exist?: Twelve Proofs of the Inexistence of God — Sébastien Faure
• 1913 — The Failure of Christianity — Emma Goldman
• 1916 — The Philosophy of Atheism — Emma Goldman
• 1922 — The Soviets and the Papacy — Andre Lorulot
• unknown — God or Labor: The Two Camps — Mikhail Bakunin
• unknown — The Commune, the Church and the State — Mikhail Bakunin
• unknown — Heresy — Sébastien Faure

Christian Anarchism

The Christian Anarchists (sometimes called "The Tolstoyan Movement") approached religion in a completely different way from others in the Left. Far from opposing religion, they embraced it whole-heartedly, although Tolstoy and his followers disbelieved in much of church dogma: the virgin birth, the immaculate conception, and the trinity were all absurd to the Christian Anarchists. They accepted the religion, but opposed the church hierarchy, as Tolstoy was excommunicated from the church during his life.

• 1882 — A Confession — Leo Tolstoy
• 1884 — My Religion — Leo Tolstoy
• 1885 — Where Love is, God is — Leo Tolstoy
• 1887 — The Gospel in Brief — Leo Tolstoy
• 1894 — The Kingdom of God is Within You — Leo Tolstoy
• 1894 — Patriotism and Christianity — Leo Tolstoy
• 1894 — Reason and Religion — Leo Tolstoy
• 1895 — The Christian Teaching — Leo Tolstoy
• 1896 — How to Read the Gospels — Leo Tolstoy
• 1896 — To God or Mammon — Leo Tolstoy
• 1899 — Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy
• 1900 — Religion and Morality — Leo Tolstoy
• 1900 — Thou Shalt Not Kill — Leo Tolstoy
• 1900 — Thoughts on God — Leo Tolstoy
• 1907 — Why the Christians are in such distress now — Leo Tolstoy
• 1908 — The Teaching of Christ Narrated for Children — Leo Tolstoy

Labor Unionism

• 1889 — The Church and the Workingman — Eugene V. Debs
• 1896 — What Can the Church Do to Benefit the Condition of the Laboring Man? — Eugene V. Debs
• 1893 — The Teaching of Christ — Eugene V. Debs
• 1896 — Address to the Christian Labor Union, Sherman Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Milwaukee — Eugene V. Debs
• 1902 — Battle Cry of Superstition — Eugene V. Debs
• 1909 — Does God or the Church Change? — Eugene V. Debs
• 1909 — Socialism and the Church — Daniel De Leon
• 1910 — Prostitution of Religion — Eugene V. Debs
• 1911 — The Common Cause — Daniel De Leon
• 1914 — The Real Religion of Jesus Christ — Eugene V. Debs
• 1914 — Jesus, the Supreme Leader — Eugene V. Debs
• 1915 — Real Religion and the Hypocrites — Eugene V. Debs
• 1931 — The Church and the Workers — Bennet Stevens
• 1942 — Labor Action Replies to Christian Science Monitor — Irving Howe
• 1945 — Paper of Catholic Unionists Is for No-Strike Pledge — Martin Harvey
• 1971 — Two Nations: A Reply to Brian Trench — John Newsinger
• 1972 — Protestant workers and the struggle for socialism — Peter Hadden
• 1973 — Protestant workers’ poverty — Peter Hunt
• 1976 — The Protestant Working Class — Des Derwin et al.
• 1986 — The protestant working class — Eamonn McCann
• 2000 — Race, Nationality And Religion In Australia: The Irish Catholics, the labour movement and the working class in the 19th and 20th centuries — Bob Gould
• 2007 — Muslim working class struggles — Bob Gould
• 2007 — Egypt’s strike wave — Sameh Naguib
• 2007 — Persian proletariat — Naz Massoumi
• 2008 — Inside Egypt’s mass strikes — Anne Alexander
• 2010 — Beyond the Troubles?: The Unionist State — Peter Hadden
• 2012 — Electricity workers in Lebanon strike back against casualisation — Bassem Chit

Leftist Movements and Religion: Christianity

The Catholic Church

If you need a summary of the Catholic Church in one sentence, here it is: you can be a Fascist, a Nazi, and a war criminal, and join the church, but being a Communist, Socialist, or Anarchist and joining the church is prohibited.

• 1850 — The Peasant War in Germany — Frederick Engels
• 1899 — The Peasant War (Germany) — E. Belfort Bax
• 1903 — The Rise and Fall of the Anabapists — E. Belfort Bax
• 1904 — Socialism or the Catholic Church — Emil Vandervelde
• 1905 — The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism — Max Weber
• 1908 — Roman Catholicism and Socialism — James Connolly
• 1912 — Socialism and the Catholic Church — E. Belfort Bax
• 1913 — Catholicism, Protestantism & Politics — James Connolly
• 1924 — The Vatican — Antonio Gramsci
• 1925 — Catholicism and Socialism: Mr. Wheatley's Lie — Edgar Hardcastle
• 1935 — The Anti-Catholic Drive in Mexico — Jean Mendez
• 1936 — The Pope Needs America: Vatican Politics and the American Dollar — James T. Farrell
• 1937 — For Joint Action on Behalf of the Spanish People — J. R. Campbell
• 1940 — The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern Age — F.A. Ridley
• 1946 — The Vatican in World Affairs — Li Fu-jen
• 1949 — The Vatican’s New Line — Joseph Leonard
• 1949 — Sees Spellman Trying to Collect Reward for Vatican Aid in Europe — Mike Stevens
• 1949 — Sidney Hook:His New Friends in the Vatican? — R. Fahan
• 1949 — The Priests Bore from Within — Art Preis
• 1963 — The Bishop of Woolwich Squares the Circle — Pieter Lawrence
• 1964 — Adolph Hitler and the German Catholics — Constance Weisman
• 1995 — Blood wedding — Judy Cox
• 2006 — The pope as right-wing cultural warrior: And his loyal backstop, His Eminence George Pell — Bob Gould

Ireland

Ireland has a unique, beautiful, and also tragic history within the history of Socialist movements. Like many other countries, while it was oppressed as a colonial possession, the workers' movements and the nationalists' movements intertwined and fought the same enemy, a foreign capitalist. But the alliance has always been tenuous.

• 1855 — Ireland’s Revenge — Karl Marx
• 1867 — On the Irish Question: Outline of a Report on the Irish Question to the Communist Educational Association of German Workers in London — Karl Marx
• 1893 — The Priest in Politics — Michael Davitt
• 1898 — Home Thrusts — Karl Marx
• 1910 — Sweatshops Behind the Orange Flag — James Connolly
• 1910 — Labour, Nationality and Religion — James Connolly
• 1911 — Socialism and Internationalism: A Reply to Friend Connolly — William Walker
• 1911 — Rebel Ireland: And Its Protestant Leaders — William Walker
• 1912 — The Controversy with Father MacErlean, S.J. — James Connolly
• 1922 — Ireland in the 20th Century — Karl Kautsky
• 1939 — Ireland and Ulster — V.F.
• 1945 — Ulster in Transition — Bob Armstrong
• 1968 — Derry: the grim facts about Ulster’s divide and rule city... — Paul Foot
• 1969 — Irishman who called for unity of 'the men of no property' — Chris Gray
• 1969 — Bogside – Saturday 19 April — Peter Hadden
• 1969 — Defend the Barricades — Socialist Worker
• 1969 — Build the Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign — John Palmer
• 1970 — Northern Ireland: The New Orange Offensive — Sean Treacy
• 1971 — Trade Unions must fight internment — Peter Hadden
• 1972 — UDA Gangs and British Army fall out — Workers' Fight
• 1972 — The Two Nations Fallacy — Brian Trench
• 1972 — One answer, workers unity — Peter Hadden
• 1972 — On the IRA: Belfast Brigade Area — Jim Lane
• 1972 — Only working class can bring Irish unity! — Peter Hadden and John Throne
• 1972 — After 5 October 1968 — Eamonn McCann
• 1973 — Ireland is One! — Hammer & Steel Newsletter
• 1973 — Ireland – The Gathering Storm — Eamonn McCann
• 1973 — The Struggle in Ireland, What British Workers Should Know — Communist Unity Association (Marxist-Leninist)
• 1974 — The Ulster Unionist Party — George Johnston
• 1974 — Background to the Crisis: Northern Ireland — Chris Harman
• 1974 — A Communist View – Attack on BICO — Peter Hunt
• 1974 — Ireland and the British Crisis — Peter Harman
• 1975 — UUAC supports British Tory Party — Peter Hadden
• 1976 — Criticism of the CFB Resolution on Ireland — Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
• 1976 — Trade unions can overcome sectarian murders — Peter Hadden
• 1977 — NILP and sectarianism — Peter Hadden
• 1981 — Provos out to Provoke Civil War — Peter Hadden
• 1982 — Northern Ireland – For Workers’ Unity and Socialism — Peter Hadden
• 1982 — One answer – workers’ unity — Peter Hadden
• 1982 — Some notes on Northern Ireland a year after the Hunger Strikes — Chris Bambery
• 1982 — Assembly elections – no hope for political stability — Peter Hadden
• 1983 — Sinn Fein move to the right — Peter Hadden
• 1983 — Provisionals – a blind alley for youth — Peter Hadden
• 1984 — The Missing Key — Chris Harman
• 1984 — For a democratic solution to the communal conflict in Ireland — Workers Socialist Review
• 1986 — Union silence leaves field open to sectarians — Chris Harman
• 1986 — The Anglo-Irish Agreement – A Warning to Labour — Peter Hadden
• 1988 — Dividing Ireland — Paul Foot
• 1994 — Across the divide — Mark McIvor
• 1994 — Ireland after the Ceasefire — Ted Grant
• 1995 — Are you being framed?: With the launch of the Frameworks for the Future document — Peter Hadden
• 1996 — On the edge of the abyss — Peter Hadden
• 1996 — Back from the Brink — Peter Hadden
• 1996 — Sectarianism returns as “peace process” crumbles — Peter Hadden
• 1996 — Rebuilding class unity — Peter Hadden
• 1996 — Where Studes Lonigan Came From — Patrick M. Quinn
• 1997 — Northern Ireland’s hidden history — Peter Hadden
• 1997 — Sectarian parties have no solutions: North starts to talk — Peter Hadden
• 1997 — Northern Ireland: Why we fight for working class unity — Peter Hadden
• 1998 — Northern Ireland’s Marching Season Crisis — Stuart Ross
• 2000 — 1969 Cabinet Papers — Peter Hadden
• 2002 — Towards conflict or peace? — Peter Hadden
• 2002 — Assembly collapse reflects growing polarisation — Peter Hadden
• 2005 — Towards conflict or peace? — Peter Hadden
• 2005 — Headed towards renewed conflict not peace — Peter Hadden
• 2012 — 100 Years of the Ulster Covenant — John Lyons
• 2013 — The State of Loyalism — Goretti Horgan
• 2015 — A ‘Carnival of Reaction’: Partition and the Defeat of Ireland’s Revolutionary Wave — Fergal McCluskey & Brian Kelly
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Leftist Movements and Religion: Islam
Background

Today, the Socialist, ecological, feminist society of Revolutionary Rojava is the greatest example of the success of a bottom-up, libertarian-socialist society — and the great vast majority of its people are Muslims. All across the planet, just like Christians, Hindus, or any other religion, most Muslims are peaceful people who want to want to be good believers when at their temple, but also want to be good neighbors when in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, like all religions, this culture is dotted with humanitarian abuses, such as the severing of limbs of thieves under Sharia, the removing of sexual organs of girls at a young age to prevent adultery, and the low status of woman which often results in domestic abuse (though this latter issue is arguably on a nation-by-nation basis, with conservative governments being worse).

• 1853 — Extracts from the New York Tribune on the Crimean War — Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
• 1922 — Communism and Pan-Islamism — Tan Malaka
• 1922 — Speech in Discussion of Executive Committee Report — Tan Malaka
• 1922 — Discussion on the Report of the Executive — Tan Malaka
• 1939 — Historical Role of Islam: An Essay on Islamic Culture — M.N. Roy
• 1972 — Islamology — Dr. Ali Shariati
• 1979 — Islam and Revolution — Phil Marfleet
• 1979 — CPL: From Stalin to Allah — Spartacist Canada
• 1979 — Military Terror, Islamic Reaction, IMF Austerity — Workers Vanguard
• 1979 — Behind the “Islamic revolution” lies the counter revolution — In Struggle!
• 1980 — Islamic movement: blow to imperialism — Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
• 1980 — Who are the Afghan guerrillas? — Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
• 1981 — Afghanistan impasse — Jonathan Neale
• 1983 — War in Lebanon – class unity the key — Peter Hadden
• 1990 — Anti-communism Reaps the Islamic Whirlwind — Shahrzad Azad
• 1990 — Salman Rushdie: Off-target anger — Gareth Jenkins
• 1994 — The Prophet And The Proletariat — Chris Harman
• 1994 — Islamism: An Analysis — Chris Harman
• 1994 — Double Standards — Sharon Smith
• 1996 — Islam, Empire & Revolution: Class War, Not Holy War! — International Bolshevik Tendency
• 1997 — Islam, Children’s Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar — Mansoor Hekmat
• 1999 — Islam and De-Islamisation — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2000 — June 20, 1981: One of the Greatest Crimes of the 20th Century — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — The Rise and Fall of Political Islam — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — Islamic Republic without Khatami — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2002 — Militant Islam in Central Asia — Dianne Feeley
• 2002 — Redrawing the political map: Nationalism, Islamism and socialism in the Middle East — Anne Alexander
• 2003 — Global and local echoes of the anti-war movement: A British Muslim perspective — Salma Yaqoob
• 2004 — Islam through the looking-glass — Anne Alexander
• 2004 — The hijab, racism and the state — Antoine Boulangé
• 2005 — Contested values — Chris Harman
• 2005 — Are these uprisings genuine revolts? — Chris Harman
• 2006 — The Bolsheviks and Islam — Dave Crouch
• 2006 — Islam and the Enlightenment — Neil Davidson
• 2006 — Between ritual and revolt — Chris Harman
• 2006 — Crusade and jihad in the medieval Middle East — Neil Faulkner
• 2006 — Suez and the high tide of Arab nationalism — Anne Alexander
• 2009 — Imperialism, Religion And Class In Swat — Sartaj Khan
• 2009 — Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands — Paul Mepschen
• 2011 — The Attack on American Muslims — Malik Miah
• 2011 — ‘Democracy is not given, it is taken’ — Bassem Chit
• 2011 — The Flight of the Intellectuals?: A Look at Paul Berman’s Latest Book — Andrew Coates
• 2012 — United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Calls for Actions Against U.S. Wars Abroad and at Home October 5-7! — Socialist Viewpoint
• 2013 — The Persecution of Lynne Stewart — Chris Hedges
• 2014 — How did the sectarian nightmare come true in Syria and Iraq? — Bassem Chit

Islam and Indonesia

Islam in Indonesia is different from every other place in the world. The great majority of the Muslim population belong to the abangan following, treats most of the commandments of Islam (particularly the five-daily-prayers commandment) to be optional, and most of them essentially unnecessary. In contrast to the abangan are the santri, who dutifully listen for orders from Arab monarchies and caliphates, pray five times a day, and avow a hateful vengeance against the abangan. In Indonesian and Malaysian Communist Revolutions, the abangan were almost always entirely on the side of the Communists, with the santri always opposed. More human beings were executed by reactionary, anti-Communist forces in Indonesia (tens of millions) than in any other anti-Communist suppression in human history.

• 1922 — Komunisme dan Pan-Islamisme — Tan Malaka
• 1925 — Islamism and Communism — Haji Misbach
• 1926 — The class struggle element in the liberation struggle of the Indonesian people — Henk Sneevliet
• 1966 — Indonesian Communism: The First Stage — Martin Glaberman
• 1999 — Race and Politics: Indonesia’s Ethnic Conflicts — Malik Miah
• 2000 — The Politics of Islam, Indonesia’s Ruling Elite and Democracy — Malik Miah
• 2001 — Indonesia: The Old Order Reviving — Malik Miah
Islam and Terrorism

• 1994 — Islamic Terrorism — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2009 — Smoke ’Em Out, Freedom Of Speech Be Damned — Lenore Daniels
• 2011 — Ten Years On: The Historical Significance of Al Qaeda — Paul Flewers
Islam and Sri Lanka

• 1996 — The IMF Restructures Sri Lanka — D.A. Jawardana
• 2009 — Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre — an interview with Ashok Kumar
Islam and Algeria

• 1945 — Common Declaration of the Socialist and Communist Parties of Algiers — Munoz, Dupoch
• 1956 — Ali-la-Pointe — Saadi Yacef
• 2007 — Open Letter from Henri Maillot — El Watan
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Islamic, Communist Governments

• 1964 — The Case of Sultan-Galiyev (Report #3) — Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau
• 1968 — Theses of the East Bengal Workers Movement — Siraj Sikder
• 1972 — Heroic People of East Bengal, Our Struggle Has Not Yet Finished: Carry on the Great Struggle to Complete the Unfinished National Democratic Revolution of East Bengal — Siraj Sikder
• 1989 — RCPB(ML) wants to outlaw religious blasphemy — The Supplement
• 1990 — The Crisis in the Caucasus — Ronald Suny
• 1997 — Muslims should align themselves with the Left — Vinod Mishra
Islamic, Reactionary Governments

Note: Normally Iran would be here, but, it's so massive that it gets its own section.

• 1889 — The Modern Revolution in Persia — J.S. Stuart Glennie
• 1909 — Revolution and Counter Revolution in Turkey — Christian Rakovsky
• 1980 — The Invasion of the Iraqi Regime and Our Tasks — Mansoor Hekmat
• 1982 — The 1976 Lebanese civil war — Daniel Bensaid
• 2004 — Naming the Darfur Crisis — Mahmood Mamdani
• 2013 — The Fall of Morsi — Hannah Elsisi
• 2017 — Obama’s Muslim-Ban List — Sarah Harvard
• 2017 — The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big oil, failed democracy and false prophets — Ramzy Baroud
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The Islamic State

• 2001 — The Obvious Lessons of Berlin — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2014 — From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage — Yassamine Mather
• 2015 — On the Islamic State — Italian Marxist-Leninist Party (PMLI)
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India, Pakistan, and the Hindu-Muslim Conflict

• 1940 — Notes on Indian History — Karl Marx
• 1941 — Thoughts on Pakistan — B. R. Ambedkar
• 1943 — Pakistan and National Unity — G. Adikari
• 1943 — On Pakistan and National Unity — Resolution of Communist Party of India
• 1944 — The Famine in India: The Famine in India — S. Krishna Menon
• 1944 — The August 1942 Struggle — Rupsingh
• 1945 — Pakistan or Partition of India — B. R. Ambedkar
• 1946 — The World's Largest Question — Wilfred Burchett
• 1946 — The Bourgeoisie Comes of Age in India: Exasperating Essays — D. D. Kosambi
• 1946 — The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie — Suren Morarji
• 1947 — June 3 Declaration — Bolshevik Party of India
• 1964 — On Communal Problems — Shibdas Ghosh
• 1965 — Neither India or Pakistan—For a Socialist Federation — Ted Grant
• 1965 — Indian High Noon — David Breen
• 1969 — Communist Party and the Problems of the Muslim Minority — M. Farooqi
• 1969 — Pakistan: Feb. 14 — Nigel Harris
• 1970 — Indian Summer — Nigel Harris
• 1985 — Thinking it over...: Divide and rule — Nigel Harris
• 1992 — On Communalism — Vinod Mishra
• 1993 — Exposing the Saffron Scheme : A Popular outline — Vinod Mishra
• 1993 — Whither Indian Muslims? — Vinod Mishra
• 1997 — The Muslim Question — Vinod Mishra
• 1997 — India: Imperialism, Partition and Resistance — Sam Ashman
• 1999 — India of My Dreams — Vinod Mishra
• 2002 — Pakistan from Pariah State to Partner — Tariq Amin
• 2002 — Communal War in Gujarat, India — Kunal Chattopadhyay
• 2003 — The Construction of Communalism in India — Sara Abraham interviews Dipak Malik
• 2004 — A New Chapter In The Resistance: World Social Forum 2004 – Mumbai, India — Chris Harman
• 2006 — Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism? — Purnima Bose
• 2006 — Pakistan: on the edge of instability — Geoff Brown
• 2008 — Descent into Chaos: The United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia — Peter Hadden
• 2009 — Crisis from Pakistan to Motown — Tariq Ali
• 2010 — Kashmir: A Brief Background — David Finkel for the ATC editors
• 2016 — Kashmir: A Time for Freedom — Angana Chatterji

Islamic Republic of Iran

• 1978 — Iranian Leftists Tail Islamic Reaction: Smash the Shah's Reign of Terror! — Young Spartacus
• 1979 — No To Khomeini's Islamic Reaction -- For Workers Revolution in Iran! — Workers Vanguard
• 1979 — No to the Veil! — Young Spartans
• 1979 — Iran: Holy War Against the Left — Workers Action
• 1979 — Iranian Left Under the Gun — Workers Vanguard
• 1979 — Workers Must Rule Iran: Down with the Ayatollahs! — Workers Vanguard
• 1979 — Who are the Shiites? — Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line
• 1979 — For Workers Revolution to Defeat Islamic Reaction! — Workers Vanguard
• 1979 — For Workers Revolution to Overthrow the Shah! — Young Spartans
• 1979 — Mullahs' Left-Wing Apostles Paved the Way for Islamic Reaction — Young Spartans
• 1980 — Islamic Thugs on Bloody Rampage — Australasian Spartacist
• 1980 — Documents of the Iranian Revolutionary Movement — Sojourner Truth
• 1981 — The Iranian Revolution, Its Aftermath and the Left — L. Shirazi
• 1981 — The Counterrevolution in Iran — Sy Landy
• 1981 — What has happened to the Iranian revolution? — Raya Dunayevskaya
• 1981 — Iran at the Crossroads — Robert Goldstein
• 1981 — Iran: Revolution, War and Counterrevolution — Sy Landy
• 1989 — RCPB(ML) condemns Salman Rushdie — RCPB(ML)
• 1991 — Emergence of Iranian Workers — Ali Javadi
• 1991 — Iran: The Oil Workers’ Strike — Ali Javadi
• 1995 — The History of the Undefeated: A few words in commemoration of the 1979 Revolution — Mansoor Hekmat
• 1999 — Iran: Youth Protests and the Regime’s Crisis — Ali Javadi
• 1999 — Iran will be the Scene of a Mass Anti-Islamic Offensive: Interview with with Radio Hambastegi — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — ‘Election Day:’ A Day of Protest — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — People Must Choose — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — A Week of Anxiety — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — New Year Message to the People of Iran — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2001 — We Represent the Majority: Interview on Iran after the ‘Elections’ — Mansoor Hekmat
• 2003 — Iran’s Islamic Republic at Breaking Point — Ali Javadi
• 2006 — Peter Costello, Muslims and sharia law — Bob Gould
• 2007 — Defend Iran against U.S. Imperialism! — Worker-communist Party of Iran (WCPI)
• 2007 — Sanctions on Iran — Ali Javadi
• 2009 — Rupture and revolt in Iran — Peyman Jafari

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

Malcolm X was a powerful, Marxist, muslim leader of resistance to the exploitation of those suffering racial injustice and those suffering economic injustice. The Nation of Islam, which he served until a bitter disagreement, has tried to hold onto his legacy, while he distanced himself from them. More recently, in 2020, the Nation of Islam has allied itself with the Church of Scientology. Further reading: The Malcolm X Archive.

• 1964 — Progressive Labor Editorial Comment: Malcolm X and Black Nationalism — Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
• 1964 — Text of Statement by Malcolm X — Malcolm X
• 1965 — Malcolm X: Voice of the Black Ghetto — Robert Vernon
• 1965 — Malcolm X: Martyr in the Cause of Freedom — Joseph Hansen
• 1967 — Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and Socialism — George Novack
• 1967 — Myths About Malcolm X: A Speech — Rev. Albert Cleage
• 1994 — The Malcolmized Moment — John Woodford
• 1995 — Farrakhan No Answer to Racism — Sy Landy
• 2006 — The Oratory of Malcolm X — Ursula McTaggart
• 2011 — Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X — Malik Miah
• 2016 — Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man — Malik Miah
• ~~ — Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. — Roland Shephard

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The problems of Bosnia and Herzegovina date back to before the First and Second World Wars.

• 1944 — Tito and His People — Howard Fast
• 1992 — The Dissolution of Yugoslavia — Manuela Dobos
• 1992 — Yugoslavia – disintegration and slaughter — Peter Hadden
• 1992 — In Defense of Bosnia — Solidarity
• 1993 — Bosnia: Why We Defend the Muslims — Workers News
• 1993 — Letting Bosnia Die — Against the Current
• 1993 — Dialogue: The Issues in Bosnia — David Finkel
• 1993 — Yugoslavia: The Rise and Fall of Vance-Owen — Branka Magas
• 1994 — Nato’s new frontier — Chris Harman
• 1994 — Notes of the Month: Bosnia, Powers of partition — Socialist Review
• 1994 — Bomb warning — Chris Harman
• 1994 — Bosnia 1994 Armageddon — Chris Harman
• 1994 — How Milosevic's Serbia Became A Fascist State — Branka Magas
• 1994 — Bill Clinton and Genocide — Against the Current
• 1994 — Bosnia: Powder Keg of Europe — Workers Vanguard
• 1995 — No ‘liberation’ in Bosnia — Chris Harman
• 1995 — Arm Bosnia, Abolish NATO? — Eric Hamell
• 1995 — A Bosnian Activist's View — David Finkel interviews Nada Selimovic
• 1995 — The Balkan war: can there be peace? — Lindsey German
• 1995 — Bosnia’s Triumph and Western Treachery — Attila Hoare
• 1995 — Can Bosnia Resist? — Attila Hoare
• 1995 — On Bosnia and the Left — Attila Hoare
• 1995 — The left and the Balkan war — Duncan Blackie
• 1995 — Serbia's Flawed Liberal Opposition — Attila Hoare
• 1996 — Yugoslavia Dismembered — Kit Adam Wainer
• 1996 — The Empire and Left Illusions — Thomas Harrison
• 1996 — NATO’s Squalid Police Action — Against the Current
• 1997 — Serbia’s Democratic Uprising — Suzi Weissman interviews Borka Pavicevic
Arab Spring

• 2011 — The Unfolding Arab Uprisings — Suzi Weissman interviews Mark LeVine
• 2011 — Egypt and Beyond — Gilbert Achcar
• 2013 — On Egypt — Gilbert Achcar
• 2013 — Can People Get What They Want? — Gilbert Achcar
• 2013 — Egypt: ‘Do Not let the Army Fool You’ — MENA Solidarity Network
• 2014 — Sectarianism and the Arab revolutions — Bassem Chit
• 2015 — Bassem Chit’s critique of Arab nationalism — Simon Assaf
Palestine and Judaism / Israel / Zionism

Please see the Israel / Palestine Archive for a full discussion on this topic, which is too broad to cover here.

Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Tolerance

You can oppose the hierarchy of the established religion without discriminating or being intolerant of those who follow that religion.
Tolerance and Christians

• 1895 — Persecution of Christians in Russia — Leo Tolstoy
• 1897 — Letter requesting a Nobel Prize for the Doukhobors — Leo Tolstoy
• 1898 — The Emigration of the Doukhobors — Leo Tolstoy
Tolerance and Muslims (AKA: Islamophobia)

• 2002 — Racism: myths and realities — Hassan Mahamdallie
• 2005 — Votes of no confidence — Chris Harman
• 2005 — Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs — Liam Mac Uaid
• 2005 — More than the mosque — Hassan Mahamdallie
• 2005 — Mirror images — Chris Harman
• 2006 — On the Racist Anti-Muslim Cartoons — League for the Revolutionary Power
• 2006 — Racism and the Islamic Veil — Workers Hammer
• 2009 — Racism and Islamophobia — Memet Uludag, John Molyneux
• 2011 — The Years of 9/11 — Against the Current Editors
• 2011 — Build Our Own Defence League to Stop EDL Thugs — SocialistRevolution.org
• 2012 — Murfreesboro Islamic Center Opens — Jase Short
• 2012 — Arabs and Muslims After 9/11 — Thomas Abowd
• 2015 — Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism — Carmen Teeple Hopkins
• 2015 — Happy Ramadan! — Memet Uludag
• 2017 — In Defense of Atheism: KPFA and the Dawkins Cancellation — Chris Kinder
Tolerance and Jews

• 1844 — On The Jewish Question — Karl Marx
• 1870 — The Crémieux Decree: Decree No. 136 of October 24, 1870 declaring the Jews natives to Algeria to be French citizens — Ad. Crémieux, L. Gambetta, Al. Glais-Bisoin, L. Fourichin
• 1894 — Anti-Judaism In Christianantiquity: From The Foundation Of Church Of Constantine — Bernard Lazare
• 1900 — The Social Conception of Judaism and the Jewish People — Bernard Lazare
• 1927 — To the Jews of All Countries — Nestor Makhno
• 1940 — Fascist ‘Christian Mobilizers’ Open Drive in New York City — Sam Marcy
• 1942 — The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation — Abram Leon
• 1964 — Judaism Without Embellishment — Jews in Eastern Europe
Tolerance and Communist China

• 1952 — Talk With Tibetan Delegates — Mao Tse-tung
• 2001 — Falun Gong: Force for Counterrevolution in China — Workers Vanguard
• 2021 — Uyghur Genocide — Wikipedia
• 2021 — Sinicization of Tibet — Wikipedia
• 2021 — Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China — Wikipedia

Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Education

Modern religion still exists because it can infect minds before they are well-developed, the way an adult wrestler can force a child into submission, or the way a college student can beat a kidnergartener at a spelling bee. The fight for a free education is the fight for freedom from religion.
Francisco Ferrer

Francisco Ferrer was an Anarchist educator in Spain who was executed by firing squad after a mock, show-trial. He was accused of organizing a rebellion against the government, during which hundreds of churches were burned. The actual cause of the rebellion was the church's undying support for the government's war in Morocco, with the initial fighting breaking out when drafted men were being loaded onto troop carriers.

• 1909 — The Assassination of Ferrer — Daniel De Leon
• 1911 — The Martyrdom of Ferrer — The Agitator
• 1917 — Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School — Emma Goldman
• Unknown — Francisco Ferrer — Voltairine de Cleyre
• Unknown — Modern Educational Reform — Voltairine de Cleyre
Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church has long been the greatest supporter of Tsarist Russia, one of the largest, slave-holding empires in all of human history. When it has been allowed to direct schools, these schools have simply become indoctrination centers, with more focus on directing the social and economic activity of their followers than on their religious activity. This religion only gets extra attention here because it is the predominant religion of Russia, which is a historic hub of Marxism.

• 1902 — Russian Schools and the Holy Synod — Peter Kropotkin
• 1904 — What the Orthodox Religion Really Is — Leo Tolstoy
Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Art and Literature
Photography

• 1980s — The Soviet Art of Photography: Religion — USSR
Poetry

• 1897 — The Gods and the People — Voltairine de Cleyre
• 1918 — Church Sociable — Jean Starr Untermeyer
• 1919 — Those Iron Gates of Prison — Kazi Nazrul Islam
• 2012 — Irish Marxist Review: Three Poems — Conor Kelly

Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Philosophy
The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was a period in European history where humanity awoke to the great ideas of freedom, democracy, and economic prosperity. Naturally, it was also a great period for criticizing and questioning religion.

• 1513 — Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities — Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1515 — Of the Religions of the Utopians — Thomas More
• 1728 — On the Vanity of Religions — Jean Meslier
• 1729 — Error, Illusion, and Imposture — Jean Meslier
• 1764 — The Abbot and the Rabbi — Baron d’Holbach
• 1769 — On Religious Cruelty — Baron d’Holbach
• 1770 — Thoughts on Religion — Denis Diderot
• 1770 — Critical History of Jesus Christ — Baron d’Holbach
• 1787 — God, Some Conversations — Johann Gottfried Herder
• 1790 — The Catechism of the Curé Meslier — Sylvain Maréchal
• 1793 — Religion is the Greatest Obstacle — Anarcharsis Cloots
• 1794 — The Age of Reason — Thomas Paine
• 1799 — The Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Atheists — Sylvain Maréchal
• 1799 — Preliminary discourse, or Answer to the question: What is an atheist? — Sylvain Maréchal
• 1888 — Thomas More and his Utopia — Karl Kautsky
• Unknown — Thomas Paine — Voltairine de Cleyre
Classical Philosophy

• 1841 — The Essence of Christianity — Ludwig Feuerbach
• 1845 — Theses On Feuerbach — Karl Marx
• 1851 — Lectures on the Essence of Religion — Ludwig Feuerbach
• 1886 — Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy — Frederick Engels
• 1886 — The Religious Mood (From: "Beyond Good and Evil") — Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1909 — Conspectus of Feuerbach’s Book — Vladimir Lenin
Hegelianism

Hegel was an eighteenth-century philosopher whose writings influenced Marx.

• 1793 — On the Prospects for a Folk Religion — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1795 — The Positivity of the Christian Religion — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1798 — The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1805 — The Philosophy of Spirit — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1820 — Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1901 — Studies in Hegelian Cosmology — John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
• 1977 — Phenomenology of Spirit — J. N. Findlay

Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Feminism
Early and Modern Feminism

The edicts and rules of religion have always come down harshly against women, and so Feminists have made up a very special, important part of the Atheist movement.

• 1879 — Disruption of the Family — August Bebel
• 1904 — The Falling Birth-Rate — Dora B. Montefiore
• 1905 — The Religion of Women — Dora B. Montefiore • 1990 — Is Operation Rescue Over? — Marie Laberge
India and Feminism

• 1995 — Constructing the Past in Contemporary India — Brian K. Smith
• 2001 — India’s Communalist Violence Against Women — Soma Marik
Islam and Feminism

• 1979 — Iranian Women Face Islamic Reaction — Journal of the Women's Commission of the Spartacist League
• 1999 — The Rebel Girl: A Question of Rape — Catherine Sameh
• 2001 — Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy — Anuradha Gandhy
• 2001 — The Rebel Girl: The War, the Women, the West — Catherine Sameh
• 2002 — Gender and Identity in Pakistan — Shahnaz Rouse
• 2005 — Workers, women and the Islamic republic — Elaheh Rostami Povey
• 2012 — Arab and Arab American Feminist Narratives — Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis
• 2013 — Arab Uprising & Women's Rights: Lessons from Iran — Haideh Moghissi
• 2016 — Fatema Mernissi: A Pioneering Arab Muslim Feminist — Zakia Salime

Leftism and Religion on Social Issues: Secularism
European Secularism

• 1801 — Epistle to the Ministers of all Religions — Sylvain Maréchal
• 1871 — Decree on the Separation of Church and State — The Paris Commune
• 1891 — Church and State — Leo Tolstoy
American Secularism

If you can't totally and completely abolish all religion, then everyone should have the right to throw it at full speed out of their front door and into the street. Secularism is the separation of religion and law, although since religion exists largely to justify law, this obviously doesn't work out very neat and cleanly in practice.

• 1949 — Cardinal Spellman Abuses Cry for Full Religious Freedom — Philip Coben
• 2004 — U.S. Law: Religious or Secular? — Jennifer Jopp
Soviet Secularism

• 1918 — Decree on Separation of Church and State — Sovnarkom

Race

• 1949 — Cardinal Spellman Does the KKK’s Work — Labor Action
• 1960 — Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process — Jean-Paul Sartre
• 1962 — Charge L.A. Cops Guilty in Shooting of Black Muslims — Lois Saunders
• 1995 — Black to basics — Talat Ahmed
• 2003 — Stop the War on Immigrants! — Proletarian Revolution
• 2004 — Black and White on the Inside — Christopher Phelps
• 2008 — Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit — Mark Higbee
• 2009 — Race, Politics and Christianity in America — Angela Dillard
• 2011 — Arab Detroit, Targeted Community — Frank Rashid
• 2016 — Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants — Malik Miah

Science

In the 19th century, scientists were just beginning to systemize their tools for discovering truth, and many of the scientists came into open conflict with the established religions. The conflict was not necessarily social or economic, but it was religious -- the quest for who can determine the truth and what we are expected to believe.

• 1882 — Science and Religion — Edward Aveling
• 1882 — An Atheist on Tennyson’s Despair — Edward Aveling
• 1900 — Socialism and Modern Science — Enrico Ferri
• 1935 — Science and the Supernatural — JBS Haldane
• 1982 — Our Celestial Visitor (The Flying Virgin And Space Age Astronomy) — Francis Ambrose Ridley
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