C. L. R. James

Articles

• C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936 The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
  30 January 2010

  Chapter 1 MARXISM
  WHAT THEN IS SOCIALISM ACCORDING TO THE PROPHETS? To answer this question we have to look back and not forward, at the origin of Socialism in the scientific sense, placing it in the particular phase of social evolution to which it belongs. For though it is to be attained by the will and energy of men, it will not be attained how and when men please. It is neither pious hope nor moral aspiration but a new form of society which will arise for one reason and one only, the (…)

• A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  9 January, by Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  THERE IS A LOGIC IN HISTORY AND DESPITE ALL THE rich and strange episodes of historical evolution there is a consistent line which can be followed. We can see the future of the Third International in the role it plays in the Spanish revolution. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
  When Franco launched his attack on the Popular Front Government, that hybrid showed exactly what is to be expected from these political combinations of bourgeoisie and (…)

• STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  20 September, by Robert Paris

  C.L.LR. James
  STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  EVEN WHILE THE STALINISTS, BY FALSIFICATION AND PHYSICAL repression, were destroying the propagandists of international Socialism, the world revolution which had seemed so remote in October, 1924, stirred itself, and even while the new theory was being made law presented the International with one of its greatest opportunities. We have to pass over how the Stalinists forced the Communist Party of Poland to support Pilsudski in the coup (…)

• Writings of C.L.R. James
  13 May 2012, by Robert Paris

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• STALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
  19 décembre 2021, par Robert Paris

  STALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
  THE GERMAN REVOLUTION WAS FOR YEARS THE MOST urgent and important for the Communist International. In the war Germany lost over one and a quarter million men killed and four and a quarter million wounded. The allied bourgeoisie blockaded Germany for nine months after the war so that a million children died ; (meanwhile they called on God and man to witness how the wicked Bolsheviks were shooting thousands of good Russian bourgeois). Germany lost 100,000 (…)

• La place de Trotsky dans l’histoire
  17 novembre 2023, par Robert Paris

  C.L .R. James -
  La place de Trotsky dans l’histoire
  (septembre 1940)
  Avertissement : il s’agit d’une traduction plus que sommaire
  Ici le texte en anglais :
  https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1940/09/trotsky-history.htm
  La bourgeoisie, forcément dépourvue de méthode historique et soumettant tous les aspects de la vie à la nécessité du maintien de son pouvoir, s’est non seulement méprise sur le prolétariat, mais est également trompée dans l’estimation de ce qui (…)

• Stalinism and Fascism
  26 December 2021, by Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  “AFTER HITLER, OUR TURN”
  THE INTERNATIONAL PURGED
  AS THE STALINIST REGIME DESTROYED THE BOLSHEVIK party by slander and organisational terror (not against class-enemies, it must always be remembered, which all history proves to be necessary, inevitable and not in the least confined to Communists, but against honest, intelligent and devoted members of its own ranks), so it automatically transferred these methods to the International. [1]
  With the final expulsion of the (…)

• CLR James sur la Commune de Paris
  10 juin 2023, par Robert Paris

  « Ils ont montré la voie de l’émancipation ouvrière » CLR James
  La classe ouvrière américaine n’est pas encore aussi familière que la classe ouvrière européenne avec l’histoire et les traditions du mouvement socialiste révolutionnaire. Le 14 mars, anniversaire de la mort de Karl Marx, et le 18 mars, anniversaire de la Commune de Paris ne seront célébrés que par une petite minorité.
  Les travailleurs américains et l’héritage de Marx
  Alors que la crise internationale s’approfondit, le (…)

• The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
  29 December 2021, by Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
  (July 1939)
  Source: SWP New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939. Proofreading: Einde O’Callaghan (March 2016).
  In 1930 Negroes in America constituted nearly twelve million, or 10 percent of the American population. Of these, two-thirds were still in the South, despite the war and postwar emigration to the North. In the cities of the North and East, the Negroes form only a small (…)

• LENIN AND SOCIALISM
  23 June 2022, by Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  LENIN AND SOCIALISM
  THOUGH BEFORE VERY LONG THE SOVIET UNION WAS TO be the only Workers’ State in the world, the international Socialist revolution had begun. As time passed and the isolation of the Soviet Union became clear, it might have been thought that the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia enforced by the situation inside the country was premature. Difficult and dangerous as was its position, liable to collapse at any time, yet the Soviet Union fitted into the (…)