Papers by Robert Narai
Monthly Review, 2019
In the 1960s, György Lukács—under the slogan Back to Marx!—called for a "renaissance" o... more In the 1960s, György Lukács—under the slogan Back to Marx!—called for a "renaissance" of Marxism within Eastern Europe. To understand the nature of this renaissance, we have to understand the many important questions that the Hungarian uprising of 1956 raised for the anti-Stalinist left inside Hungary and Eastern Europe more broadly. This interview goes into the attempts to rethink the future of socialism from the Eastern European situation in the second half of the twentieth century, including the political lessons of 1968, the internal fight within the Hungarian Socialist Party, and the continued relevance of V. I. Lenin's Marxism.
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Marxist Left Review, 2022
Robert Narai recounts the inspiring struggle against the military coup in Myanmar and analyses th... more Robert Narai recounts the inspiring struggle against the military coup in Myanmar and analyses the forces involved.
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Marxist Left Review, 2020
A survey of the socio-economic and political dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.
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Red Flag, 2020
In the late 1960s, militant Black workers in Detroit's auto industry tried to combine radical soc... more In the late 1960s, militant Black workers in Detroit's auto industry tried to combine radical socialist politics with rank-and-file union activism, to "take the uprising into the factories". The result was DRUM: the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
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Red Flag, 2020
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Red Flag, 2020
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Red Flag, 2020
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Red Flag, 2020
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Red Flag, 2020
Almost a year after being overthrown in a right-wing coup, the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement... more Almost a year after being overthrown in a right-wing coup, the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS) emerged victorious in Bolivia's presidential elections, held across the country last month.
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Red Flag, 2021
Strikes and demonstrations have engulfed Myanmar, after the Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military) arreste... more Strikes and demonstrations have engulfed Myanmar, after the Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military) arrested State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and seized government on 1 February.
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Red Flag, 2021
In response to a general strike on 22 February, in which more than 1 million people protested acr... more In response to a general strike on 22 February, in which more than 1 million people protested across Myanmar, and widespread work-stoppages that paralysed the economy, the Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military) has unleashed a wave of violence in an attempt to crush the nationwide movement opposed to the new junta.
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Red Flag, 2021
Video footage shows students in gasmasks and hard hats assembled in a row, armed with homemade sh... more Video footage shows students in gasmasks and hard hats assembled in a row, armed with homemade shields, in Tamwe township, east central Yangon. They crouch behind a barricade built from bamboo sticks, bags of rice, garbage bins and bricks. Several hundred metres away, a line of riot police fires rubber bullets and tear gas. The bullets lodge in the barricade and ricochet off the students’ shields into the adjacent shopfronts.
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Red Flag, 2021
Counter-revolutionary violence has reached new heights in Myanmar, as the Tatmadaw (the country’s... more Counter-revolutionary violence has reached new heights in Myanmar, as the Tatmadaw (the country’s military) attempts to terrorise a nationwide uprising into submission.
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Red Flag, 2021
Millions of people across Colombia have joined strikes and demonstrations against the far-right g... more Millions of people across Colombia have joined strikes and demonstrations against the far-right government of Iván Duque.
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Red Flag, 2021
Six months after seizing power in a coup, Min Aung Hlaing’s regime in Myanmar is facing a third w... more Six months after seizing power in a coup, Min Aung Hlaing’s regime in Myanmar is facing a third wave of COVID-19.
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Book Chapters by Robert Narai
The Radical Left in Europe - Rediscovering Hope, 2019
Hungarian Marxist Tamás Krausz is interviewed by Róbert Nárai
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Conference papers by Robert Narai
Faced with the rise of fascism during the upheavals that followed the end of the First World War,... more Faced with the rise of fascism during the upheavals that followed the end of the First World War, Marxists were compelled to produce new analyses that could both understand and defeat this dangerous form of mass reaction. At the outset, however, many assumed that fascism could not provide any lasting danger. Antonio Gramsci was one of the few figures within the Italian Communist movement to argue against such complacency. Writing in L’Ordine Nuovo during the upheaval of May 1920, he described the danger as follows: “The present phase of the class struggle in Italy is the phase that precedes either the conquest of power by the revolutionary proletariat ... or a tremendous reaction by the capitalists and the governing caste. Every kind of violence will be used to subjugate the agricultural and industrial working class.” This paper will critically reconstruct Gramsci’s theory of fascism through the numerous modifications it underwent from 1920 onwards.
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