The articles are listed per issue of ‘A Free Retriever’s Digest’.
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2021 (Volume 5)
A Free Retriever’s Digest Vol.5 #01, 31 January 2021January – March 2021, 36 pages A4 |
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| No. | Title / Topic | Subtitle | Author(s) | Page | Total (Words) | ||
| 1 | From the Editor | HC | 2 | 339 | |||
| 2 | Selected Articles & News Feeds | The US 2020 Presidential Elections and the Historical Situation of Capitalism | AFRD | 3 | 3,488 | ||
| 3 | Heart of Democracy: The Riot at the United States Capitol | Communiqué by the ‘I.C.P.’ (Florence) of January 15, 2021 | ICP/Il Partito | 7 | 917 | ||
| 4 | On the Bookshelves: ‘Wages, Price and Profit in the 21st Century’ | An introduction to Marx’s key ideas on Waged Labor and Capitalism | Ph. Sutton | 9 | 2,073 | ||
| 5 | Day by day the need for communism grows dramatically | ‘The Internationalist’ (I.C.P. Milan) on the crisis of capitalism and proletarian struggle | ICP/Il Programma | 12, 35 | 965 | ||
| 6 | Has Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? | A Blog Discussion (November 2020) | AFRD | 13 | 4,556 | ||
| 7 | A Discussion of Capitalism’s Decadence | Contributions from the Inter-Rev Forum and Link | 19 | 4,881 | |||
| Decline and Senility of Capitalism with Marx, Engels and Communism | A&M | 20 | |||||
| Some Key Questions for Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation | Link | 23 | |||||
| 8 | Documents of the historical Communist Left | Anton Pannekoek: The Economic Necessity of Imperialism – Part 1 (De Nieuwe Tijd, 1916) | A.P. | 27 | 3,958 | ||
| Introduction | FC | ||||||
| Referenced Sources | HC | 31 | |||||
| 9 | 250 years of modern Capitalism: A reconstruction of its dynamics |
A work in progress (‘Capitalisme & Crises Économiques’) [TOC] | M.R. | 32 | 142 | ||
| 10 | Netherlands: About the riots against the curfew and their backgrounds | First statement by ‘Arbeidersstemmen’ (January 25, 2021) | FC | 33 | 885 | ||
| 11 | Pandemic, Economic Crisis and Class Struggle in India | Le Prolétaire on the situation on the subcontinent (December 28, 2020) | ICP/Le Prolétaire | 36, 34-35 | 1,540 | ||
| Total words (articles) | 23,744 | ||||||
A Free Retriever’s Digest Vol.5 #02, 01 May 2021April – June 2021, 54 pages A4 |
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| No. | Title / Topic | Subtitle | Author(s) | Page | Total (Words) | ||
| 1 | From the Editor | HC | 2 | 390 | |||
| 2 | Myanmar: Military coup and “democratic transition” – two sides of the same coin! | A communiqué by ‘Le Prolétaire’ – ‘Proletarian’ (February 26, 2021) | ICP/Le Prolétaire | 3 | 1,478 | ||
| 3 | Extracts from F. Engels, “Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science” | <Related to item 8: A Discussion of Capitalism’s Decadence> | F.E./K.M. | 6 | 722 | ||
| 4 | Trotsky and the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921 | From: Willy Huhn, Trotsky – The Failed Stalin (1952) | W.H. | 7 | 3,706 | ||
| Introduction | AFRD/HC | 7 | |||||
| Ch.1 Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. Par. VI | W.H. | 7 | |||||
| A note on the foregoing chapter from Willy Huhn’s book on Trotsky (HC, April 20, 2021) | HC | 12 | |||||
| 5 |
The Program of the Kronstadt Uprising |
Ida Mett (1938): The Petropavlovsk Resolution of February 28, 1921 | 13 | 2,790 | |||
| Petrograd on the Eve of Kronstadt | I.M. | 13 | |||||
| Ida Mett’s Analysis of the Kronstadt Program | 15 | ||||||
| 6 | ‘Les Révolutions’ – A World in Revolt 1917–1921 | A Document Collection and Bibliography on the Kronstadt | 17 | 2,527 | |||
| Introduction | HC | 17 | |||||
| Kronstadt 1921 – Notes on the documents | LR/AA | 17 | |||||
| 7 | The Retreat of the World-Revolution – The 1921 ‘Kronstadt Tragedy’ |
Excerpt from: ‘The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68)’ | 21 | 2,495 | |||
| Introduction | Ph.B | 21 | |||||
| The Retreat of the World-Revolution | 21 | ||||||
| The Tragedy of Kronstadt (March 1921) | 22 | ||||||
| 8 | A Discussion of Capitalism’s Decadence | Contributions by: Fredo, Aníbal & materia; Introduction | AFRD/HC | 26 | 8,668 | ||
| Capitalism is coming to an end. But how? (Fredo Corvo, March 2021) | F.C. | 27 | |||||
| A first reply to Fredo (HC, May 2021) | HC | 33, 6 | |||||
| The Decadence of Capitalism. A Discussion (Aníbal & materia, February – March 2021) | A&M | 34 | |||||
| 9 | Documents of the historical Communist Left | Anton Pannekoek: The Economic Necessity of Imperialism – Part 2 (De Nieuwe Tijd, 1916) | A.P. | 41 | 4,132 | ||
| Introduction | HC | 41 | |||||
| 10 | With Special Attention | Controversy apropos of the Bolsheviks’ Repression of the Kronstadt Uprising? | 47 | 4,940 | |||
| Introduction | HC | 47 | |||||
| Avant-propos by Pantopolis (March 19, 2021) | Pantopolis | 47 | |||||
| The question of the State (‘Octobre’ #2, March 1938), Extracts | O.P. | 48 | |||||
| The ICT among its ambiguities, limited acknowledgments and various centrisms (Aníbal,March 24, 2021) | Aníbal | 49, 40 | |||||
| 11 | A Note on Peasants on the Indian Subcontinent | Majdoor Samachar – Kamunist Kranti on the class struggle in India (January 27, 2021) | FMS/KK | 54, 53 | 1,367 | ||
| Articles word count |
33,215 | ||||||
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