Bebel, Liebknecht and the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871)
Hello all, The video of my talk is available here and the slides are attached. I hope you enjoy it and please reach out if you …
Clara Zetkin on Dictatorship and Violence
Attached are the slides from my talk at the ‘What’s your take on Violence?’ conference held in Vienna last week.
The Good, The Baden and the Ugly
Attached is a PDF of my chapter on Rosa Luxemburg’s republicanism in 1910 that has just been published in the following open-access publication: Frank Jacob …
Public Post: 135 years of May Day
First translation of Clara Zetkin, ‘Twenty-Five Years’, Die Gleichheit, April 29 1914) The fighting proletariat’s international May Day celebration is just around the corner. This …
Video: Kautsky, Hilferding and Centrism: Some Thoughts
My presentation at the book launch for William Smaldone’s new publication: ‘Freedom is Indivisible: Rudolf Hilferding’s Correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky and Paul Hertz’. …
‘Our Day’: The First International Women’s Day, March 19 1911
To celebrate International Women’s Day, here is a quick translation of a report of the First International Socialist Women’s Day on 19 March 1911. The …
Democratic Centralism: Who was a member of the SPD?
Hello all, This week – by popular demand! – we are taking a quick break from the Marchlewski text on Bolshevism to bring you something …
The Marxism Translated Top 5 of 2023
Hello all, A very quick holiday recap post with some links to the posts and translations that I am most proud of this year. It …
NEW BOOK! Clara Zetkin and the Women’s and Women Workers’ Question of our Time
The book can be purchased here. An excerpt from my Introduction can be read here. Thanks to all my supporters on Patreon who make mini-projects …
Zetkin: The Women’s Conference in Terek
Hello all, Today’s post sees us wrap up Zetkin’s discussion of the Women’s Club in Tbilisi and proceeds to a report of a Women’s Conference …