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
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
Vacuous definitions
09 Dec 1999
Aufheben and state capitalism
Against Livingstone
25 Nov 1999
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Time to forgive
25 Nov 1999
Phil Sharpe reviews 'How It All Began' by Nikolai Bukharin (Columbia University Press, 1998, pp345, £13.95)
Inversion of Marxism
30 Sep 1999
Still defending Serbia
Lukács, Brecht and bureaucratic socialism - Fraught relationships
29 Jul 1999
Phil Watson reviews ‘Aesthetics and politics’ (Verso, 1999)
Understanding the Soviet Union
24 Jun 1999
Phil Watson reviews 'Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia', edited by Michael Cox (Pinter Publishers 1998, pp294, £15.99)
National socialist farce
03 Jun 1999
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Entryism, Scargill and the left
03 Jun 1999
Extracts from a secret paper on the Socialist Labour Party presented by Harpal Brar at a 1998 May Day Brussels international seminar of Stalinites, hosted by the Workers Party of Belgium