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.
I Cannot Be Silent! - Leo Tolstoy A response to the hanging of twenty peasants who had assaulted their landowner, this essay denounces capital punishment. Originally published…
Ping, Ping, Ping: The Remand Extension Hearing of the Penza “Terrorists” Yegor Svokoroda traveled to Penza, where, over the course of three days, the Lenin District Court considered whether to extend the remand in police custody of the antifascists who, according to the FSB, were part of a “terrorist community” known as The Network.
