Democracy & State > Stalinism
Dead Russians
12 Mar 2009
Jack Conrad defends Lenin and Trotsky, and issues a health warning about Arthur Scargill, George Galloway, Robert Griffiths and others who want to forget, belittle or maintain silence over the crimes of Stalin
Branson’s pickle
30 Oct 2014
Noreen Branson History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927-1941 Lawrence and Wishart, 2014, pp376, £17.99; and History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941-1951 Lawrence and Wishart, 1997, pp262, £14.99
Lech Wałęsa and Thatcher, the wise and brave woman
23 Oct 2014
While The Leninist's critique of Stalinism was still developing, it had no hesitation in calling the export of Polish coal to Britain during the miner's strike a scab act.
Italy: New attack on workers’ rights
09 Oct 2014
The former ‘official communists’ are being dragged further and further to the right, observes Toby Abse
An unintentional exposé
02 Oct 2014
Tariq Ali (editor) The Stalinist legacy: its impact on 20th century world politics Haymarket, 2013, pp551, £15.99
SACP plumbs the depths
17 Apr 2014
While the ANC continues to lose support, writes Peter Manson, it still faces no viable opposition from the working class
South Africa: Official ‘communists’ split unions
20 Feb 2014
It is impossible to overstate the crisis facing the SACP, writes Peter Manson
South Africa: Opposition in disarray
13 Feb 2014
Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, is facing jail for fraud
South Africa: Phase within phase ... but capitalism is the end result
13 Feb 2014
Attempts to create a viable governmental alternative are in tatters, writes Peter Manson, leaving the ANC free to pursue the second phase of the national democratic revolution
Biggest union ready to split historic ANC alliance
09 Jan 2014
Things in the workers movement are very fluid, writes Peter Manson. The South African Communist Party is certainly heading for a profound crisis
North Korea: A very Kimist purge
19 Dec 2013
The bureaucratic apparatus in North Korea is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, writes Eddie Ford
Mandela: He was a bourgeois hero
12 Dec 2013
South African Marxist Hillel Ticktin discusses the role of Nelson Mandela with Peter Manson
Mandela: Creation of a cult
12 Dec 2013
The ruling class is honouring a man who helped make South Africa safe for capitalist exploitation, writes Peter Manson
China: Beijing’s new turn
21 Nov 2013
As the third plenum shows, China is moving towards some form of state capitalism, writes Eddie Ford
USSR: Getting the Soviet Union right
07 Nov 2013
On the 96th anniversary of the October Revolution, Jack Conrad engages with the Russian question
China: Populism and plutocracy
29 Aug 2013
The trial of Bo Xilai reveals contradictions at the top of Chinese society, argues Paul Demarty