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
USSR Review: Sticking with old dogmas that have failed time and again
29 Nov 2012
Paul Flewers reviews: Workers Power, 'The degenerated revolution: the rise and fall of the Stalinist states', Prinkipo, 2012, pp584, £13.90
Durham Debate: Stalinism reinforces capitalist apologetics
25 Oct 2012
Ben Lewis spoke at the Durham Union Debating Society
Police slaughter and apologetics
13 Sep 2012
The Morning Star has come unstuck with its uncritical support for the ANC, writes Peter Manson
Diplomacy and dissonance
19 Jul 2012
The Morning Stars CPB is concerned and worried about the Communist Party of Chinas embrace of capitalist relations. Lawrence Parker reports
Ideologically bankrupt
14 Jun 2012
The South African Communist Party has published a new version of its programme. Peter Manson analyses 'The South African road to socialism'
A flag tainted with brown
24 Nov 2011
Chris Strafford condemns the Morning Star-sponsored meeting of nationalists, anti-Semites, and homophobes
Vile class-collaboration on display at Westminster
27 Oct 2011
Peter Manson looks at the reaction of the Morning Star to the defeat of the Commons motion for a referendum on the European Union
ANC bureaucrats target youth league demagogue
20 Oct 2011
The South African Communist Party has no answer to Julius Malema's black nationalism, writes Peter Manson
Lessons from 'history'
20 Oct 2011
Laurence Parker reviews Robert Griffiths and Ben Stevenson, The Communist Party 1920-2010: 90 years of struggle for the working class and humanity (CPB History Group, 2010, pp44,
Fighting Stalinism politically
05 May 2011
James Turley responds to Paul B Smith
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics
17 Mar 2011
Ben Lewis wonders why some still consider China a model for socialist development
Stalinist barriers to study and thought
03 Mar 2011
Paul B Smith concludes his call for a renewed Marxist culture
Lies that refuse to be buried
24 Feb 2011
On the anniversary of the 1933 Reichstag fire, Bob Potter looks back at the trial of Marinus van der Lubbe and Georgi Dimitrov
A Marxist culture free from the taint of Stalinism
24 Feb 2011
In the first of two articles, Paul B Smith argues that Marxism must be distinguished from Stalinism if a new generation of anti-capitalists fighters are to be properly educated. The starting point must be Marx's 'Capital'
Marxism and theoretical overkill
20 Jan 2011
Mike Macnair reviews Jairus Banaji's 'History as theory: essays on modes of production and exploitation' Historical Materialism books series, Vol 25, Leiden, 2010, pp406, £81