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
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
More glasnost, less perestroika
13 Jan 2011
Maciej Zurowski interviews Circles Robinson of 'Havana Times', a web magazine that features critical writing from Cuba
Haunted by ghosts
06 Jan 2011
The death of Mary Rosser has opened up a can of worms. Sammy Hollingworth wonders why leading CPB members have such a strained relationship with the past
The trouble with Browder
16 Dec 2010
Lawrence Parker continues his exploration of the CPGB's inner-party life following World War II
Their finest hour?
09 Dec 2010
The end of World War II saw an angry rebellion developing among the 'official' Communist Party's rank and file, writes Lawrence Parker
Slow death of Cuban 'socialism'
23 Sep 2010
The capitalist road is the only one open to an isolated Cuba, writes James Turley
Soviet 'planning' and bolt-on democracy
12 Nov 2009
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on Stalinism's collapse. Mark Fischer points out what it represents for Marxists
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