Arman Sagynbayev: I Was Tortured by the FSB “Two Wires Came Out of the Box”: Penza-Petersburg “Terrorism” Case Suspect Arman Sagybayev Says FSB Tortured Him with Electrical Shocks in Minivan.
The Bolsheviks come to power - Alexander Rabinowitch The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.
Trotskyism and the War in Syria The casual observer might think that Trotskyism has been quite consistent in its views on the Syrian war but in fact there are almost as many…
Marx on the Russian Mir, and misconceptions by Marxists Marx's 1877 letter to the editor of Otecestvenniye Zapisky refuting the idea that all societies…
The Rebellion in Nicaragua In the 1970s the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua was a cause celebre of the left and extreme left, in the same way the Zapatistas in Mexico were…
Review – Anarchist Encounters: Russia In Revolution A must read for anyone who really wants to understand the Russian Revolution, and whose enquiring minds are not deterred by Leninist orthodoxy.
How the NKVD framed the POUM An extract of the memoirs of Jesús Hernández, a leading member of the Spanish Communist Party and minister in the republican government during…
Revolutionary Bureaucracy – Solidarity An article from Solidarity for Workers’ Power vol. 7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution.
“Are You a Bitch Yet?” FSB Makes New Threats to Framed and Tortured Antifascist Viktor Filinkov On April 20, 2018, the Russian Investigative Committee officially declined to open…
Tragic events in Russia Exactly a week after Putin’s “landslide” victory in the Russian Presidential election (March 18) a terrible fire broke out in the “Winter Cherry”…
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
