John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:15:17 +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 John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/ 32 32 22825446 At the Onset of the ‘Sixties’ Radicalization: A Youthful Year In Europe 1961–62 https://johnriddell.com/2024/06/09/at-the-onset-of-the-sixties-radicalization-a-youthful-year-in-europe-1961-62/ https://johnriddell.com/2024/06/09/at-the-onset-of-the-sixties-radicalization-a-youthful-year-in-europe-1961-62/#respond Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:53:00 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8133 By John Riddell 1. A Quest for Personal Autonomy 2. My Background in Activism 3. Setting Sail for Europe 4. Arrival in Germany 5. Work Camp and Language School 6. Dissident Socialists in Divided Berlin 7. Student Life in Freiburg 8. A Brush with Germany’s Rightists 9. Socialist Discord over Cuba 10. An Instructive Stay […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2024/06/09/at-the-onset-of-the-sixties-radicalization-a-youthful-year-in-europe-1961-62/feed/ 0 8133 HALT ISRAEL/U.S. SLAUGHTER IN PALESTINE! https://johnriddell.com/2023/12/15/halt-israel-u-s-slaughter-in-palestine/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/12/15/halt-israel-u-s-slaughter-in-palestine/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:30:22 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8117 HALT ISRAEL/U.S. SLAUGHTER IN PALESTINE! The following speech was made by Suzanne Weiss at a  Defend Palestine rally held in Toronto’s City Hall Square on December 2, 2023. The rally was called by Toronto4Palestine. Stop US/Israel resumption of genocide on Palestine! * For an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza * Trudeau, end Canadian complicity […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/12/15/halt-israel-u-s-slaughter-in-palestine/feed/ 0 8117 ‘Let’s Rent a Train!’ https://johnriddell.com/2023/08/25/lets-rent-a-train/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/08/25/lets-rent-a-train/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:37:02 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8096 A new feature-length video on the League for Socialist Action and the radicalization of the 1960s. By John Riddell: A dramatic feature-length video is now available online portraying the achievements of the socialist movement in Canada sixty years ago. Let’s Rent a Train! is a unique film portrayal of socialist activism in the 1960s, now […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/08/25/lets-rent-a-train/feed/ 0 8096 Amilcar Cabral: A Pan-African Revolutionary https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/28/amilcar-cabral-a-pan-african-revolutionary/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/28/amilcar-cabral-a-pan-african-revolutionary/#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:41:38 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8085 The relevance of his praxis for Africa in a world undergoing geopolitical reconfiguration By Ameth LO, Pan-African militant and Member of GRILA (www.grila.org), Toronto Dakar June 20th, 2022. The renewed general interest in Pan-Africanism among young people, and interest in the work of Cabral in particular, can be largely explained by the urgency of current […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/28/amilcar-cabral-a-pan-african-revolutionary/feed/ 1 8085 The Communist Manifesto at 175 https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/02/the-communist-manifesto-at-175/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/02/the-communist-manifesto-at-175/#respond Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:36:27 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8066 By John Riddell: I made the presentation that follows on 26 February to a webinar organized by the International Manifesto Group to mark the 175th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. The  International Manifesto Group is a solidarity collective based in Winnipeg and chaired by Radhika Desai. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/03/02/the-communist-manifesto-at-175/feed/ 0 8066 Sankara: ‘Better One Step Forward with the People’ https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/10/sankara-better-one-step-forward-with-the-people/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/10/sankara-better-one-step-forward-with-the-people/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:44:51 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8057 Thomas Sankara: ‘Better One Step Forward with the People Than Ten Steps Without!’ The following historic speech by President Thomas Sankara was delivered in 1983 in New Delhi, India. Sankara, the leader of a popular revolution in the West African country of Burkina Faso, was assassinated 45 years ago in a foreign-backed coup d’etat. The […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/10/sankara-better-one-step-forward-with-the-people/feed/ 0 8057 Remembering George Bryant 1931–2022 https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/06/remembering-george-bryant-1931-2022/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/06/remembering-george-bryant-1931-2022/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:14:51 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8042 The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant, at the age of 91. George and his life partner Bea Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life for Socialism). Working from […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/06/remembering-george-bryant-1931-2022/feed/ 0 8042 Remembering George Bryant 1932–2022 https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/03/remembering-george-bryant-1932-2022/ https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/03/remembering-george-bryant-1932-2022/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:44:14 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=8047   The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner Beatrice Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life for Socialism). Working […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2023/02/03/remembering-george-bryant-1932-2022/feed/ 1 8047 The Second International’s Conflicted Legacy https://johnriddell.com/2022/07/03/the-second-internationals-conflicted-legacy/ https://johnriddell.com/2022/07/03/the-second-internationals-conflicted-legacy/#respond Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:08:44 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7828 By Mike Taber: Virtually all socialists today are direct descendants of the Second International of 1889 to 1914.  Also known as the Socialist International, this movement grouped the greater part of the world’s organized working class under the banner of socialist revolution, and was viewed by capitalists everywhere as a threat to their existence. Yet […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2022/07/03/the-second-internationals-conflicted-legacy/feed/ 0 7828 The Comintern’s Twenty-One Conditions, 1920 https://johnriddell.com/2022/04/20/the-cominterns-twenty-one-conditions-1920/ https://johnriddell.com/2022/04/20/the-cominterns-twenty-one-conditions-1920/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:15:11 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7750 Editor’s Note on the 21 Conditions During 1920, a wide range of socialist parties and currents were considering affiliation to the newly formed Communist International. Many of these formations were still mired, in their policies and practices, in the weaknesses of the Second International, which had collapsed at the outset of the World War in […]

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