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
Stalinist illusions exposed
18 Sep 2008
Mike Macnair explodes the myths about the 'gains' of the USSR
Solzhenitsyn: false prophet
04 Sep 2008
Paul Flewers, author of 'The new civilisation? Understanding Stalin's Soviet Union 1929-1941', investigates how a hero of western anti-communism came to be abandoned by his former promoters
In the middle of the 'Road'
06 Mar 2008
Lawrence Parker reveals new evidence of Stalin's legacy in the post-war CPGB programme
Sunshine Stalinism ends?
28 Feb 2008
James Turley looks at the mixed response of the left and the prospect of a 'Cuban Deng'
Hidden from history
22 Nov 2007
Lawrence Parker, The kick inside - revolutionary opposition in the CPGB 1960-1991 2007, £4.00 (+ £1.15 postage), pp75
No more historical abortions
14 Dec 2006
Hillel Ticktin highlights the bogus nature of planning in the Soviet Union and locates the central importance of Europe for the transition to socialism
Divided four ways
08 Jan 2004
There are deep divisions in the leadership of the 'Morning Star's Communist Party of Britain over what attitude to adopt towards the new Respect coalition. Can its forthcoming special congress resolve the contradictions? Alan Rees investigates
Big people and the small state
08 Jan 2004
Tory leader Michael Howard declares: "I believe the people should be big. That the state should be small." This is a sentiment that authentic Marxists would wholeheartedly concur with, writes Jack Conrad
European Social Forum: PCF attacked
20 Nov 2003
The PCF was attacked with bottles and fireworks by a gaggle of two to three hundred anarchists. David Moran witnessed events
Rewinning our day
01 May 2003
It is time we reclaim May Day from the Stalinists, says Eddie Ford
Stalin's system of terror
06 Mar 2003
The 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death on March 5 1953 has been used as an occasion to revisit the massive terror he personally ordered and presided over from the late 1920s onwards. Jack Conrad investigates the legacy of 'the man of steel'
Try Milosevic!
12 Oct 2000
The mass popular insurrection that overthrew the regime of Slobodan Milosevic on October 5 brings to an end a bloody chapter in the history of the Balkans. Milosevic's 11 years in power brought nothing but ruin to the region, to the non-Serbian people of the former Yugoslavia, and ultimately to the Serbian people themselves.
Rotten politics and military blocs
12 Oct 2000
Ernest assessment
14 Sep 2000
Gilbert Achcar (ed) The legacy of Ernest Mandel Verso, London 1999, pp270, $45
Red-brown cesspit
16 Dec 1999
Michael Malkin examines the Great Russian chauvinism and anti-semitism of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation