By Shawn Hattingh
revolutionary organisation
“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nigh
1. Unfortunately, there tends to be a lot of subjectivism in our analysis of the political situation. What tends to occur is that leaders, driven by their revolutionary passion, tend to confuse desires with reality.
1. I have previously argued the case for the need to create a large social bloc against neoliberalism that can unite all those affected by the system.
1. I have previously referred to the necessity of building unity among all left forces and actors in order to be able to cohere a broad anti-neoliberal bloc around them.
1. There continues to be a difficulty within the left to deal with differences.
1. In the previous article, I stated that a large section of the political left has found it very difficult to work with social movements and develop ties with the new social forces in recent decades.
1. The rejection by a majority of the people of the globalization model imposed on our continent intensifies each day given its inability to solve the most pressing problems of our people.
1. Democratic centralism implies not only the subordination of the minority to the majority, but also the respect of the majority towards the minority.
1. For a long time, left-wing parties operated along authoritarian lines. The usual practice was that of bureaucratic centralism, influenced by the practice of Soviet socialism.
campaigning to become Mayor of Toronto, Canada, 1948. Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 1, Canada 1955–1965 (London: Resistance Books, 2014) Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 2, Britain 1965–1970 (London: Resistance Books, 2014) By Bryan D. Palmer