Revolutionary Strategy in an Age of Organizational Crisis

<p><strong>What does it mean to build effective movements today? This collection gathers Red Mole's most-read essays from 2025 on the left's organizational failures strategic dilemmas and paths toward genuine revolutionary transformation.</strong></p><p>For activists and organizers facing fragmenting movements compromised leadership and the relentless pressure of capitalist accommodation this book offers something rare: rigorous strategic analysis grounded in historical lessons and Fourth Internationalist theory written for people actually building movements-not academics debating abstractions.</p><p></p><h3>The Crisis We Face</h3><p></p><p><strong>The traditional left is collapsing.</strong> Social democratic parties have become indistinguishable from conservatives. Radical parties that win elections discover parliamentary pressure inexorably pulls them toward compromise. The far-right monopolizes opposition to neoliberalism by default not superior strategy. Meanwhile the revolutionary left fragments into competing sects each convinced the others are sellouts or sectarians.</p><p>This isn't accidental. <strong>It's structural.</strong> And it's predictable.</p><p>Red Mole diagnoses how these collapses happen-and more importantly how to prevent them.</p><p></p><h3>What's Inside</h3><p></p><p><strong>Part One: Ideological Mapping & Strategic Frameworks</strong></p><p>Understand the four distinct forms of conservative leftism now dominating European and American politics-from Sahra Wagenknecht's red-brown fusion of left economics and far-right cultural politics to the campist defense of authoritarian regimes to social democratic surrender to neoliberalism. <strong>Learn to distinguish genuine working-class politics from its pale imitations.</strong></p><p>Explore the theoretical debates shaping revolutionary strategy: Why does permanent revolution theory struggle with 21st-century conditions? How did the Fourth International survive the collapse that destroyed every rival Trotskyist formation? What can historical organizational splits teach us about preventing future defeats?</p><p></p><p><strong>Part Two: Contemporary Organizational Analysis</strong></p><p><strong>Real organizations real crises real lessons.</strong> Why did the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) fail to support Ireland's historic left breakthrough? How did the Dutch Socialist Party's electoral success mask a catastrophic loss of organizational independence? What can we learn from Die Linke's recovery as it faces the AfD's fascist advance?</p><p>Each piece analyzes living organizational struggles with named protagonists making strategic decisions under pressure-the kind of analysis that helps activists understand what actually happens when radical parties face the gravitational pull of parliamentarism.</p><p></p><p><strong>Part Three: International Left Strategy</strong></p><p><strong>The Ukraine war isn't just a geopolitical crisis-it's exposed fundamental divisions in how the international left understands imperialism national liberation and revolutionary strategy.</strong> Red Mole cuts through the fog of campism (supporting any regime that opposes the West) and false pacifism to clarify what genuine anti-imperialism means in a multipolar world.</p><p>Analyze the French left's NPA split between open (strategic united front participation) and closed (sectarian independence) approaches. Examine how Scotland's left learned the hard way that centralized London-based new parties fail without genuine national autonomy. Understand why Lenin's critique of imperialist economism remains essential for contemporary revolutionary organizations.</p>