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Fur flies over Lenin
22 Mar 2012
What has the debate over 1912 got to do with current communist practice? James Turley answers the philistines
A curious case
17 Dec 2020
Were the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Kamenev supporters of the Provisional Government and hostile to soviet power? Lars T Lih puts the story straight
Break with managerialism
29 Oct 2020
Martin Thomas’s response to Neil Faulkner misuses history to defend the bankrupt model of confessional sects, argues Mike Macnair
Zinoviev in Halle
15 Oct 2020
To mark the centenary of the pivotal Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany on October 20 1920, Ben Lewis looks at the lead-up to and consequences of Grigory Zinoviev’s marathon four-hour speech
Tall tales of 1912
10 Sep 2020
Stalin’s later version of the famous Prague conference of the RSDLP is a parody of his own views at the time, writes Lawrence Parker
The centrality of hegemony
07 May 2020
150 years after his birth, how to evaluate Lenin and his ideas? Lars T Lih emphasises his consistency
October shakes the British left
13 Feb 2020
William Sarsfield opens his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
World revolution had arrived
28 Nov 2019
This article is based on a talk given by James Harvey to Communist University 2019.
Prophet and poet of Russian Revolution
25 Apr 2019
Chris Knight looks at the legacy of Velimir Khlebnikov. This is an edited transcript of a talk given to Communist University 2018
Socialism and the national question
17 Jan 2019
Genuine liberation for Palestinians and Israelis alike must be seen in the context of an Arab and global revolution, argues David Markovich
Marxism versus holy script
10 Jan 2019
There are those on the left who still insist, for their own peculiar reasons, on getting the history of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution radically wrong. Jack Conrad replies to Jim Creegan
The will to liberate
10 Jan 2019
Neglect of the woman question in the early Soviet republic was not the result of isolation and economic backwardness, argues Anne McShane
Different perspectives, different objectives
20 Dec 2018
Both Lars T Lih and Jack Conrad are wrong when it comes to the history of Bolshevism, argues Jim Creegan
Revolutionary Germany: how did the right of the left react?
08 Nov 2018
On November 9 1918, the kaiser abdicated and Germany became a republic. One hundred years later, we publish - thanks to Ben Lewis’s translation - abridged passages from the rightwing social democratic leader, Philipp Scheidemann
The Bolsheviks and democracy
01 Nov 2018
Jim Creegan rides to the defence of Trotsky’s Lessons of October
The National Left-Wing Movement: a lost legacy of the 1920s
18 Oct 2018
Lawrence Parker spoke about his book ‘Communists and Labour - The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929’ at Communist University 2018. This is an edited version of his talk