The articles are listed per issue of A Free Retriever’s Digest.
Articles available on this blog are hyperlinked.
(Volume 1, Try-out)
Issue #01, April 15, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
Special attention |
6 |
619 |
Issue #02, May 15, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
Topic |
The International Situation apropos “Brexit” and “Trump” |
5 |
0 |
|
2 |
From the Bookshelf |
Helen Caldicott: Crisis Without End, The New Press, New York, 2014 |
7 |
512 |
|
3 |
|
Documents of the historical communist Left: The revue Kommunist (Moscow, 1918) |
7 |
130 |
|
4 |
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Philippe Bourrinet: The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68), Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2016. |
8 |
360 |
|
5 |
Special Attention |
A new pamphlet on the Communist Left (G.I.S.) |
9 |
253 |
|
6 |
Book Review |
The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-’68) – Council communism or councilism? |
10 |
398 |
|
7 |
Quoted |
The Faridabad Workers’ Newspaper on workers’ struggles in India’s car industry and beyond |
11 |
1,956 |
Issue #03, June 16, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
An Invitation to a Debate |
October Revolution 1917: Does Marxism lead to State Terror against the Working Class? |
8 |
429 |
|
2 |
Express: New Pamphlets |
Nelke: Class Struggles in the B.R.D. (1945 – 1989) Presentation of Volume I. (9) |
9 |
385 |
|
3 |
|
G.I.S.: 1921 – The Start of the Counter-revolution (9) |
9 |
233 |
|
4 |
Topic: Marx and the Question of the State |
Max Hempel (1927) or: Marx and Engels versus Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution’ |
11 |
1,608 |
|
5 |
Quoted: Nation or Class? |
‘Aurora’ (I.C.T.) on a choice the historical situation imposes upon the proletariat |
14 |
971 |
|
6 |
Quoted: ‘Proletarios Internacionalistas’ |
Venezuela: Popular Power and Socialism in the 21st Century–The Modern Clothes of Social Democracy |
16 |
1,514 |
|
7 |
Indigestible: Vinegar sold as Wine |
The Support for Anti-fascism by a Group laying claim to Council Communism |
18 |
393 |
Issue #04, August 22, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
An Invitation to a Debate |
Russian Revolution 1917-2017: What Alternative for State Capitalism? |
11 |
679 |
|
2 |
From the Bookshelf |
A Critique of Ambient Theories of Decadence of Capitalism (13) |
13 |
739 |
|
3 |
|
A Lexicon of German Council Communism (1920 -1960) (14) |
14 |
653 |
|
4 |
Topic: Lessons from the Russian Experience |
Extracts from: ‘Notes on communist economy’ by Piet de Bruin (Jan Appel), 1928 (Part 1 of 3) |
16 |
1,332 |
|
5 |
Quoted: A Promising Hospital Strike |
‘Arbeidersstemmen’ on Wildcat versus Union Strikes in the UK |
18 |
1,520 |
|
6 |
Quoted: Russo-phobic Propaganda and US War Aims – the Bourgeois Left Takes Sides |
‘Internationalist Notes’ (I.W.G.) on the Tendency towards War |
21 |
1,452 |
|
7 |
A Letter from the Editor: (23) |
On the protests and riots at the occasion of the 2017 G-20 summit in Hamburg |
23 |
970 |
Issue #05, October 2, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
An Invitation to a Discussion Meeting |
The Elections, the Left, Populism and new Governments |
11 |
1,003 |
|
2 |
Documents of the historical Communist Left |
N. Ossinsky’s Critique of State Capitalism in Russia (‘Kommunist’, April 1918) CWO Intro |
13 |
1,526 |
|
3 |
Express: New Pamphlet |
Stalinism is Anticommunism (G.I.S.) |
15 |
218 |
|
4 |
Quoted: “Against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) — but not just against them!” |
The G.I.S. on the Outcome of the 2017 National Elections in Germany |
16 |
1,357 |
|
5 |
The Communist Left and Marxist Humanism on Trump and Neofascism |
A critical review of positions apropos of ‘Charlottesville (VA)’ |
18 |
1,793 |
|
6 |
Quoted: “The New Nazism and its Opponents” |
Fischer (I.P.) on ’Charlottesville’ and ‘Antifascism’ |
21 |
1,237 |
|
7 |
On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution |
24 |
1,564 |
Supplement to Issue #05, October 22, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
From the Horse’s Mouth |
‘Nuevo Curso’ (Spain) on the “National Strike” in Catalonia |
6 |
850 |
|
2 |
Nationalist Strife or Workers’ Autonomy? |
On the Escalation of Bourgeois Rivalries in Spain |
7 |
921 |
|
3 |
Quoted: On the “Catalan referendum” |
‘Forum Inter-Rev (Spain)’: A Marxist Interpretation and Orientation |
9 |
2,217 |
|
4 |
Quoted: ‘A synthesis of what has happened’ |
Anibal (Forum Inter-Rev) on The Development of Catalan Independentism |
13 |
476 |
|
5 |
A Letter to the Editor: |
Catalonia vs. Spain. On the interpretation by the ICT |
14 |
567 |
Issue #06, November 22, 2017
No. |
Title / Topic |
Subtitle |
Page |
Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
Documents of the historical Communist Left |
10 |
1,457 |
|
|
2 |
On the Bookshelves: ‘Envers et contre tout’ |
From the Left Opposition to the Foundation of the ‘Union Communiste’ (France, 1924 – 1939) |
13 |
951 |
|
3 |
An Invitation to a Discussion |
The Spanish State Crisis apropos of Catalan Independentism |
15 |
458 |
|
4 |
Quoted: “Neither State, nor nation, nor right to self-determination” (part 2) |
Agustín Guillamón on the ‘Defense Committees’ in Catalonia |
16 |
1,563 |
|
5 |
Quoted: “What has happened and what will happen in Catalonia?” |
‘Nuevo Curso’ on the bourgeois fractional struggle and the proletariat |
19 |
1,372 |
|
6 |
Separatism or Workers’ Autonomy? |
A contribution for discussion by ‘Arbeidersstemmen’ (October 31, 2017) |
21 |
1,270 |
|
7 |
Some historical Background on Spain |
Where do the regional tensions and inequalities come from? (‘Nuevo Curso’) |
23 |
1,242 |
|
8 |
With Special Attention To |
An Articles Revue [Le Fil Rouge, Grand Large] |
26 |
1,411 |
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