Venezuela: an election lost is an army gained As his party loses unilateral control of parliament for the first time since his election, President Hugo Chávez looks to assimilate the working…
Ecuador: the President who cried "¡Golpe!” Last Thursday, the world was briefly enthralled by events in Quito, Ecuador, where left-leaning President Rafael Correa called his followers out…
Ante Ciliga,Trotsky, and State Capitalism: Theory, Tactics, and Re-evaluation during the Purge Era, 1935-1939 - Michael S Fox Michael S. Fox on Trotsky and state capitalism during Stalin's purges. In PDF format.
A fresh look at Lenin - Andy Brown Solidarity pamphlet #56, in which Andy Brown examines the failure of the Russian revolution and its relation to the ideology of Lenin, its key…
The red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian revolution in 1921 Stalin was the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution, as conscious agent of the bureaucratic elite…
The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick Peter Sedgwick examines the early, often seemingly contradictory, politics of anarchist-turned…
Jan Waclaw Machajski: A radical critic of the Russian intelligensia and socialism - Marshall S. Shatz A biography of Polish-born Jan Waclaw Machajski and account of his radical critique…
Poor Lenin - Bob Darke Extracts from the 1952 book "The communist technique in Britain" by a former leading member of the Communist Party exposing their authoritarian,…
Critical review of the ABC of communism - Mouvement Communiste Mouvement Communiste critically review the politics of the ABC of communism, by Nikolai Bukharin…
B*llocks to clause four - Subversion Communist critique of leftist support for nationalisation and worker co-ops.
Old left, new left, what's left? - Paul Mattick, Jr. Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movement at the end of the 1960s.
Bi-Polar economics in Venezuela In another inversion of leftist determinism, an attempt by Chávez' embattled administration to expropriate Venezuela's largest remaining private…
