Ideas
The role of ideas and philosophy - presentation by Corinna Lotz
Beyond Resistance - the filmTaming of the crowd - A nostalgic view of the crowd in US politics stops short of the present and lacks revolutionary perspective, says Phil Sharpe, in his review of the American radical tradition.
The illusion of a New Deal for today - In the first of two articles about the American radical tradition, Phil Sharpe differs with Nancy Rose’s assessment of US government relief projects in the 1930s. He argues that the American working class cannot rely on a renewal of the New Deal to introduce anti-capitalist policies.
The culture of “broken Britain” - What’s the connection between child abuse and artistic censorship? Judith White assesses the British experience.
Democracy revolt inside the Socialist Workers Party - Phil Sharpe examines the implications of the struggle for democracy now raging inside the Socialist Workers Party, and the emergence of three groupings inside the organisation’s leadership.
What works doesn’t work any more - Ray Rising looks at the philosophy of pragmatism that underlies the outlook of President Obama and the American ruling class.
A vision for libraries - Fiona Harrington reflects on what is seen as the desperate state of our libraries.
The politics of the split in Respect - Phil Sharpe analyses how Respect has divided into supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and MP George Galloway
The dialectics of revolution - Phil Sharpe shows how Marx reconstructed Hegel
Materialist dialectics as the key to changing the world - a presentation given by Corinna Lotz to an AWTW discussion weekend 1-2 September 2007
Karl Marx on Commodities - extracts for Capital Volume 1
God's last stand: Matter, God and the New Physics - review essay by Corinna Lotz and Gerry Gold of the popular books of cosmologist Paul Davies
Bukharin’s philosophical debate with the future
Dialectical Materialism as a Practical Method - a two part article by Terry Button based on the practical dialectical materialist method as taught by Gerry Healy
Contradiction, reflection and cognition: three articles on philosophy by Gerry Healy
The role of concepts in cognition by Gerry Healy
Understanding contradictions in reality by Phil Sharpe
Callinicos glosses over the history of Marxism by Phil Sharpe
The theory and practice of the Socialist Workers Party - a critical assessment by Phil Sharpe
The SWP - a history of left reformism by Phil Sharpe
Philosophy and revolution go hand in hand - Phil Walden reviews Che Guevara, Paolo Freire and the pedagogy of revolution by Peter McLaren
A theory for revolutionary change - Phil Walden challenges the prejudices of post-modernism
Developing realistic philosophy: from critical realism to materialist dialectics by Andrew Brown, University of Leeds
A philosopher under suspicion - profile of Ilyenkov's life by philosophy scholar Sergei Mareyev
