Polemics
“The pain of recovery”: Rudd’s declaration of war on the working class
By Nick Beams, July 31, 2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s latest essay “Pain on the road to recovery”, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on July 25, could be more accurately titled “A declaration of war aga...
The significance of the British Socialist Workers Party’s call for a new “left alternative”
Part two
By Tony Robson and Chris Marsden, July 29, 2009
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on an open letter issued by the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
The significance of the British Socialist Workers Party’s call for a new “left alternative”
Part one
By Tony Robson and Chris Marsden, July 28, 2009
This is the first of a two-part series on an open letter issued by the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
Olivier Besancenot in Poland
By Ulrich Rippert, May 23, 2009
Olivier Besancenot’s participation in the European election congress of the Polish Party of Labour (PPP) last weekend makes clear the real aims of his newly founded Anti-Capitalist Party (Parti Anti...
Adam Haig responds to Alex Steiner’s burst of outrage
January 6, 2009
ICFI supporter Adam Haig responds to Alex Steiner’s frustration over his principled Marxist critique of the Steiner-Brenner embrace of the reactionary critical theorist Herbert Marcuse of the Frankf...
Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
By Adam Haig, January 2, 2009
As a supporter of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) who has been following the political and philosophical charges of Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, the author of this pa...
Marxism and Science: An addendum to “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
By Ann Talbot and Chris Talbot, October 28, 2008
This essay supplements “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner” by David North, recently published by the WSWS.
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 2
By David North, October 23, 2008
In the autumn of 1978, as the Workers League was in the final stages of moving its political headquarters from New York to Detroit, Alex Steiner left the party without any explanation. Steiner had pr...
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 1
By David North, October 22, 2008
In May-June 2006, I wrote Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness, a reply to an attack on the International Committee of the Fourth International by Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, two former memb...
Letters and a reply on “Professor Chomsky comes in from the cold”
By David Walsh, April 17, 2004
A number of readers have sent in comments on an article by David Walsh, “Professor Chomsky comes in from the cold,” posted April 5, 2004. Below we publish the author’s reply, followe...
History, program and the “unity of the left”: an exchange of letters
October 8, 2003
Posted below is a letter sent by one of our readers, followed by a reply from Jerry Isaacs of the World Socialist Web Site.
A German ex-radical adds to the anti-Trotskyist slanders
By Stefan Steinberg, July 31, 2003
German journalist Robert Misik is the latest to join in a peculiar international campaign seeking to link the activities of neo-conservative ideologues in the Bush government to the politics of Trotsk...
