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
Trotskyism and May 1968
14 Jun 2018
It was the role of Stalinism that prevented revolution, insists Rex Dunn
From the mouths of the women
29 Mar 2018
Rex Dunn reviews Svetlana Alexievich The unwomanly face of war Penguin Classics, 2017, pp351, £12.99
Zuma on the brink
08 Feb 2018
Cyril Ramaphosa now looks set to become president a year earlier than scheduled, writes Peter Manson
In the footsteps of Lenin
21 Sep 2017
The official CPGB’s leading theoretician, Rajani Palme Dutt, followed the example of Lenin when assessing the reputation of Karl Kautsky, writes Lawrence Parker
Where next for the ANC?
14 Sep 2017
Are there hopeful signs amidst the poverty and corruption? South African socialist, author and journalist Terry Bell addressed a London Communist Forum on September 10
Apologists for mass murder
07 Sep 2017
The Morning Star is still in denial about the Marikana massacre, writes Peter Manson
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