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
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
South Africa: Governmental communists turn to witch-hunting
04 Jul 2013
Outsiders are used to explain away the class struggle, writes Peter Manson
Istanbul revolt suppressed
20 Jun 2013
Esen Uslu reports from Istanbul on the brutal repression that finally saw off the rearguard action of the protestors
Turkey: Battle for secularism
13 Jun 2013
Opposition to creeping Islamisation is not confined to the protestors in Taksim Square and elsewhere, argues Eddie Ford. The army is also deeply disgruntled with the AKP
Turkey: In revolt against AKP dictat
13 Jun 2013
Esen Uslu reports from Istanbul
Kick Inside: Confined within the framework of Stalinism
31 Jan 2013
Paul Flewers reviews: Lawrence Parker The kick inside: revolutionary opposition in the CPGB, 1945-1991, November Publications, 2012, pp118, £6
SUPPLEMENT: Origins of the crisis in the SWP - part one
10 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union question
USSR polemic: In defence of defencism
10 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union did indeed feature a form a form of planning, argues Jim Creegan in his reply to Paul Flewers
'Official' CPGB History: Scotching the myths
10 Jan 2013
The history of the official CPGB was much more complex than tankies versus Euros. This is the book-launch speech given by Lawrence Parker in December