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
Supplement: The birth of a new system
10 Aug 2017
As well as celebrating the Russian Revolution, says Jack Conrad, we should never forget the counterrevolution
Supplement: Thirteen to two?
27 Jul 2017
Did the Petrograd Bolsheviks overwhelmingly reject Lenin’s April theses when they were first proposed? The records show otherwise, argues Lars T Lih
Under pressure to stand
20 Jul 2017
While the SACP has finally agreed to contest elections independently, writes Peter Manson, its leadership is still fully committed to class collaboration
Sectarianism and secession
25 May 2017
Programmatically weak politics only helped reinforce the CPGB’s ultimate sectarianism after its re-entry into the Labour Party in the late 1930s, writes Lawrence Parker
Up close and personal
18 May 2017
The CPGB’s mass entry work in the Labour Party in the late 1930s has been partially obscured by delusions associated with popular frontism, writes Lawrence Parker
Mayakovsky and the avant garde
09 Mar 2017
What was the truth about Soviet art? Rex Dunn looks at the real reasons behind its decay
What was Straight Left?
09 Mar 2017
Lawrence Parker investigates the political origins of Jeremy Corbyn’s director and deputy director of strategy and communications
Reason in revolt
19 Jan 2017
Lawrence Parker reviews: Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (editors) 1956: John Saville, EP Thompson and The Reasoner Merlin Press, 2016, pp450, £20.
An icon, but not a model
01 Dec 2016
Revolutionary, dictator - or both? Paul Demarty remembers Fidel Castro
No sense of tradition
03 Nov 2016
Attempts to use the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain to back up Robert Griffiths’ stance on the Labour Party are farcical, writes Lawrence Parker
Blundering ineptitude
16 Jun 2016
There are furious objections to the Morning Star giving Ken Livingstone a regular column. Peter Manson reports
Curious delay and publication switch
16 Jun 2016
Rexx Dunn reviews: 'Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova Trotsky The life and death of Leon Trotsky', Haymarket Books, 2016, pp396, £12.99
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
Not a lot has changed
28 Jan 2016
Rex Dunn reviews: Hamid Ismailov The underground Restless Books, 2015, pp279, £10.99
This charming man
07 May 2015
Ben Macintyre A spy among friends: Kim Philby and the great betrayal Bloomsbury, 2014, pp354, £18