Self-guided study sessions Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/communist-international/self-guided-study-sessions/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Tue, 19 May 2020 14:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Self-guided study sessions Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/communist-international/self-guided-study-sessions/ 32 32 22825446 Lenin, the Communist International, and the cooperative dream https://johnriddell.com/2013/02/15/lenin-the-communist-international-and-the-cooperative-dream/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/02/15/lenin-the-communist-international-and-the-cooperative-dream/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:50:19 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1448 By John Sharkey. This guest article expands on a presentation to a study session on “Toward the United Front”. As a Toronto community activist living in the Bain Apartments Housing Cooperative, affectionately known as The Bain, it was an eye-opener to read the debates on the role of the co-operative sector during the Russian Revolution. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/02/15/lenin-the-communist-international-and-the-cooperative-dream/feed/ 4 1448 Self-guided tours of revolutionary history https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/self-guided-tours-of-revolutionary-history/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/self-guided-tours-of-revolutionary-history/#respond Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:09:08 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1343 By John Riddell. The following five study guides are designed for use by any group of readers, anywhere in the world, to enable them to organize participatory study sessions on the Fourth Congress of the Communist International (1922) without the assistance of a teacher. The readings are available in John Riddell, ed., Toward the United Front: […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/self-guided-tours-of-revolutionary-history/feed/ 0 1343 How workers rallied to aid the early Soviet republic https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/how-workers-rallied-to-aid-the-early-soviet-republic/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/how-workers-rallied-to-aid-the-early-soviet-republic/#respond Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:01:46 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1339 The following brief talk on work by the Communist International to gather material aid for the Soviet Republic was given by Suzanne Weiss at the fourth Toronto study session on Toward the United Front, a 1,300-page edition the Fourth Communist International Congress (1922). The study session, entitled “The Comintern’s Struggle for Social Hegemony,” surveyed Comintern […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/29/how-workers-rallied-to-aid-the-early-soviet-republic/feed/ 0 1339 Overcoming barriers of racism at a Comintern congress https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/15/overcoming-barriers-of-racism-at-a-comintern-congress/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/15/overcoming-barriers-of-racism-at-a-comintern-congress/#respond Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:05:27 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1313 By John Riddell.  We have been having study sessions in Toronto on Toward the United Front, my book publishing the Fourth Comintern Congress proceedings, now available in paperback from Haymarket Books. Here’s my account of a recent session on discussion of anti-colonial struggle at the congress, reprinted from Socialist Worker (Canada). It was 1922, during the […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2012/12/15/overcoming-barriers-of-racism-at-a-comintern-congress/feed/ 0 1313 Colonial peoples at the Fourth Comintern Congress https://johnriddell.com/2012/09/25/colonial-peoples-at-the-fourth-comintern-congress/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/09/25/colonial-peoples-at-the-fourth-comintern-congress/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:47:03 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1239 By John Riddell. On September 7, 2012, Toronto socialists presented and discussed the thoughts of delegates to the Communist International’s Fourth World Congress, 90 years earlier, on the freedom struggle in the colonies and semi-colonies. Six of these short talks are reproduced below, with the presenters’ permission. For a description of how this innovative study session was […]

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