Students for a Stalinist Society - James W. Cain A 1969 article about the dominance and factional fights of various Stalinist sects within Students For A Democratic Society.
The historical significance of the POUM - Wilebaldo Solano In this text based on a presentation delivered in 1985 at a conference on the POUM held in Madrid,…
State capitalism in Russia - Murray Bookchin Murray Bookchin's critique of the USSR's economy as state capitalist. Published in Contemporary Issues 7, Autumn 1950 (under pseudonym M. S…
Lessons of the counterrevolutions - Amadeo Bordiga A 1953 text in which Amadeo Bordiga examines the lessons of counterrevolutions from the defeat of Spartacus to the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and…
The theorization of historical experiences - Agustín Guillamón A critique of Roi Ferreiro’s critique of Andrés Devesa’s essay on the Spanish civil war and…
Spain, 1936: the exorcism of the ghost of the revolution - Andrés Devesa A brief 2006 essay on the topic of the “domestication of memory” perpetrated by the mainstream…
Theses on the Spanish Civil War and the revolutionary situation created on July 19, 1936 - BALANCE (Agustín Guillamón) A 2001 text summarizing the results of the research carried out by Agustín…
Amadeo Bordiga and the myth of Antonio Gramsci - John Chiaradia Useful article about the relationship between Bordiga and Gramsci and the stalinisation of the…
Interview with José Peirats – Josep Alemany A complete transcript of a 1977 interview with José Peirats, in which the Spanish historian and former militant of the CNT and FAI reminisces…
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon dramatises the Moscow show trials and the elimination of the Bolshevik old guard by "No.1" In the Fatherland of Revolution. Told…
The case of comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge Masterful fictionalisation of the purges and how they affected the various character types in the political upheaval of Stalinist Russia.
