A note on the use of the word 'Soviet' - Neil Fernandez
Comments on radicals' use of the word "soviet" and its relationship to workers' councils and the USSR.
A Note on the Use of the Word 'Soviet'
Neil C Fernandez
Hungary '56 - Nick Heath
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 23 2007 20:33
A history of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, published as a special supplement of Anarchist Worker on the 20th anniversary in 1976
IT IS NOT out of love for nostalgia that we are commemorating the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Hungary '56 was a prime example of the working class itself reaching for power: doubly significant, it took place in one of the mythical 'workers' states'.
1953: The Working Class Uprising In East-Germany, Cajo Brendel
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 10:57
Cajo Brendel's pamphlet on the East German Uprising 1953.
Class struggle Against Bolshevism
Cajo Brendel
(From original Echanges et Mouvement- london pamphlet) Editor's note :
1953: The gulag uprising at Vorkuta
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 09:57
An article, edited from News and Letters, outlining the uprising at the Gulag in Vorkuta in 1953.
Don't Forget Vorkuta: A Soviet Holocaust
June 2003
Introduction
1962: The Novocherkassk tragedy
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 09:47
An account of the workers uprising in Novocherkassk, USSR, which lasted from June 1-3 and ended in a massacre and mass arrests.
by Piotr Suda
1921: Kronstadt: Proletarian spin-off of the Russian Revolution - Cajo Brendel
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 09:12
Cajo Brendel's pamphlet on the Kronstadt rebellion
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1932: The Vichuga uprising
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 15 2007 01:03
In April 1932 at Vichuga, Ivanovo Industrial Region (IPO), USSR, 16,000 textile workers struck at several factories and temporarily took control of the town until the uprising was crushed by both heavy repression and promises of reform from central Soviet command.
Part of a wave of unrest which hit the USSR in the IPO, Lower Volga region, the Urals, Western Siberia, Ukraine and Belorussia, the strike was one of the most significant of the 1930s, winning reforms nationally as a result of the threat it posed to the Soviet authority.
The Hungarian Revolution: 1956
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 4 2007 21:14
This is an anonymous account of the events of the near revolution of 1956, containing interesting information from interviews with participants.
Details are included from Columbia University Research Project interviews with participants which are a nice complement to the information in our other Hungary '56 articles.
[11,000 words]
For a short history, we recommend our article The Hungarian Uprising, 1956 on libcom.org/history.
The state and counter-revolution - Negation
A 1972 article by Negation, in the United States debunking the myths of Leninism and the New Left in particular.
They confront the fact that state-capitalism, the state-management of production and society, the rule over society by the class of the state, the bureaucracy, is still almost universally confused with "communism" as Marx defined it, due in part to the conspiracy of silence and distortion which unites the capitalists of both "East" and "West".
Bolshevism and Stalinism - Paul Mattick
Submitted by Red Marriott on May 11 2007 15:09
Mattick analyses "the superficiality of the ideological differences between Stalinism and Trotskyism" and why "Trotsky's own past and theories", with his role in the construction of the Russian regime, "condemned 'Trotskyism' to remain a mere collecting agency for unsuccessful Bolsheviks".
Article source: The Council Communist Archive - www.kurasje.org
The largest collection of Mattick's work is at the Paul Mattick homepage - http://www.home.no/mattick/
'Bolshevism and Stalinism' was originally published in Politics Vol. 4 - no. 2 - Mar/Apr 1947.
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