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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
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
Supplement appendix: March 1917 Pravda editorials on the war
05 Apr 2018
L Kamenev, ‘Without secret diplomacy’ (March 15 1917) and J Stalin, ‘On the war’ (March 16 1917)
Supplement: Biography of a sister slogan
05 Apr 2018
The demand for the ‘publication of the secret treaties’, which represented a key turning point in support for the Bolsheviks, predated the April theses by several weeks, writes Lars T Lih. This is the seventh and concluding part of the series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
Walking the tightrope
22 Mar 2018
Jim Creegan looks at the quandary posed by Jacobin magazine and the new DSA
The potato revolution
14 Dec 2017
Russia’s revolution had a huge impact on the working class in Sweden. Labour historian Håkan Blomqvist examines the events of 1917
Art of revolution
30 Nov 2017
Chris Knight discusses the significance of Leon Trotsky’s Lessons of October and the implications in the event of a Corbyn-led Labour government
Putting the record straight
09 Nov 2017
Over the course of this centenary year we have featured a range of different authors giving their evaluation of Bolshevism and the role of Lenin. Jack Conrad argues that those who still insist on claiming that there was some kind of programmatic break in April 1917 are, for their own particular reasons, desperate to defend a radically false version of history
Marx, Lenin and 1917
09 Nov 2017
Was it possible, asks Marc Mulholland, for a bourgeois revolution to end in socialism?