The Berlin Wall: tearing down Stalinism’s anti-working class legacy
50 years ago the Stalinist dictatorship in East Germany began building the Berlin Wall. The aim was to prevent workers leaving the ‘socialist paradise’ for the capitalist West. This abomination...
View ArticleWhy read Trotsky?
This is a translation by me of an article that John Mullen wrote two years ago about Trotsky and why we should read him even today. I published it a few days ago on this site in French. It is called...
View ArticleStalin’s rivers of bloods
On the 60th anniversary of the death of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, Ian Birchall in Socialist Worker UK looks at his life and how his politics damaged the idea of socialism for decades Joseph...
View ArticleConfronting the Stalinist legacy
In this article in Marxist Left Review, Red Flag editor Corey Oakley in 2011 makes the socialist case against Stalinism and its rotten heritage for and impact even today on the Left. In part he says:...
View ArticleStalinist tyrannies ruling in the name of socialism
I posted this article a month ago. Paul D’Amato explains why those countries that call themselves socialist are nothing of the sort, as part of his series on the ISO’s “Where We Stand” statement in...
View ArticleThe New McCarthyism in Australia: defending the Stalinists
Welcome to the new McCarthyism in Australia. The Australian ruling class is now using Tim Anderson’s outrageous support for the Syrian butcher Assad as cover for an attack on the academic left, the...
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Where to for Cuba?
Since Raúl Castro assumed power in 2006 promising reforms, Cuban politics has seen the slow emergence of new tendencies and debates. The prospects for the country’s left, however, remain uncertain...
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State capitalism and the fall of the Berlin Wall
Here is a snippet from a good article in Solidarity in Australia about the fall of the Berlin Wall. It describes the Stalinist regimes as state capitalist. I would urge those interested in...
View ArticleIs Cuba coming in from the cold?
In a wide ranging and thought provoking article in RS21 called ‘Cuba: coming in from the cold?’ Mike Gonzalez charts the recent deal between Washington and Havana and asks if this really is the end of...
View ArticleSquaddism, Trotsky and fighting the fascists
I was thinking about direct action against fascists and found these quotes from Tony Cliff’s excellent volume III on Trotsky. ‘The tactics of small-scale street fighting and attacks by small bands...
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