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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
Too close for comfort
19 May 2016
The errors of the CPGB in relation to the 1924 minority Labour government were deeply rooted in the political physiognomy of the early Comintern, argues Lawrence Parker
Without monarchies or standing armies
12 May 2016
Jack Conrad explores Leon Trotsky’s strategic thinking
A perfectly ordinary, highly instructive document
17 Dec 2015
Lars T Lih introduces Zinoviev’s review of Kautsky’s 1909 book, Path to power
Only one path to socialism
17 Dec 2015
Translation of Grigorii Zinoviev’s review of Path to power
A missed opportunity
26 Nov 2015
Left unity continues to dodge the issue of its constitution, writes Paul Demarty
If Labour wins in 2020
08 Oct 2015
There are many lessons to be drawn from the experience of revolutionary Russia and contemporary Britain. Chris Knight looks back at what he wrote in 1969
Bureaucratic centralism and its apostates
16 Jul 2015
Jack Conrad argues that SWP claims about the pre-1917 Bolshevik organisation are bogus
Truth, not myths, serve our cause
02 Jul 2015
Why do comrades on the left insist on repeating evident falsehoods about Lenin and the Bolsheviks, not least when it comes to 1917? Jack Conrad replies to Jim Creegan
Proletarian dictatorship and state capitalism
25 Jun 2015
Chris Cutrone of Platypus examines the meaning of political party for the left
Democratic dictatorship vs permanent revolution
21 May 2015
Did Lenin and the Bolsheviks lack a credible strategy? Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
Lenin’s programme found vindication
23 Apr 2015
Jack Conrad argues that, far from being disproved by 1917, the established strategy of the Bolsheviks was continued and enriched
April in Petrograd
16 Apr 2015
Is Lars T Lih a disinterested scholar without a political agenda? Jim Creegan argues against the creation of yet another mythical Lenin
Bolshevism was fully armed
26 Feb 2015
Were Lev Kamenev and Pravda ‘semi-Menshevik’ before Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917? Lars T Lih looks at what they were saying a month earlier
Fantasy history, fantasy Marx
18 Dec 2014
Chris Cutrone’s arguments are characterised by dogma and vacuous circularity, writes Mike Macnair
The strange case of the closeted Lenin
04 Dec 2014
According to comrades in the Socialist Workers Party, Lenin was a hypocrite who did not say what he thought. In this article, based on a speech to a London Communist Forum, Lars T Lih puts the record straight