1953: Uprising at the Norilisk Labour Camp
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 28 2019 19:37
Account of a mass strike by inmates at the Norilag Gulag against executions and enforced labour.
The Martyrdom of Manol Vassev - Union of Bulgarian Anarchists in Exile
Letter produced by exiled Bulgarian Anarchists detailing the repression of Bulgarian government.
The Capitalist Nature Of The Great Leap Forward
Submitted by Ivysyn on Jan 15 2019 13:53
A Libertarian Communist analysis of the Great Leap Forward under Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Communists which aims to show that the Great Leap Forward was a capitalist project rather than a socialist, or communist one.
1989-90 - Beninese campaign for economic justice and democracy
Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 23 2018 10:09
In 1989 students, teachers and civil servants in Benin began strike actions in protest at the governments freezing of scholarships and the four month delay in wage payments in 1988. The government's stalling and repression dragged the campaign on into 1990 and escalated the conflict to the point where the regime crumbled.
Ethiopia's Red Terror - Original Wolde Giorgis
An account by one of the survivors of Ethiopia's Red Terror carried out by the regime of Colonel Mengistu against rival left wing groups.
CW: for physical abuse and torture.
How the NKVD framed the POUM
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 18 2018 14:42
An extract of the memoirs of Jesús Hernández, a leading member of the Spanish Communist Party and minister in the republican government during the Spanish civil war, explaining how Soviet secret police framed and persecuted the anti-Stalinist communist group the POUM during the conflict.
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.
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 3 2018 18:15
Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 8 2018 21:45
One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie. It's time for an explainer.
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