Stalin: why and how - Boris Souvarine Souvarine describes Stalin's path of ascent to power as master of Party and state.
The first ever Caracas Libertarian Bookfair From 16-22 November, Caracas-based anarchist newspaper El Libertario hosted the first ever Libertarian Bookfair of its kind in Venezuela. Below…
Notes on the Real Domination of Capital and State Capitalism Wage slave X. on capitalism and state capitalism.
Various documents on the Stalinism of the ANC This article by Baruch Hirson was first published in "Searchlight South Africa" No.5 in July 1990. It exposes the authoritarianism at the heart…
As soon as this pub closes... - John Sullivan Pamphlet from the 1980s giving a detailed but tongue in cheek overview and history of the British left.
Anarchists who turned to the Bolsheviks - Nick Heath In these biographies, Nick Heath charts the trajectory of several leading anarchists in the Russian revolution into the service of the Bolshevik counterrevolution.
Kalandarishvili, Nestor Alexandrevitch, 1876-1922 Nick Heath's short biography of Nestor Kalandarishvili, a high profile anarchist who defected to the Bolsheviks.
Geytsman, Ilya, 1874/1879-1938 A short biography of former anarchist Ilya Geytsman who defected to the Bolsheviks, and then was later executed in Stalin's purges.
Address to revolutionaries in the USSR - The Red Menace Discussion of the political and economic reforms in the USSR of the late 80s, and the real meaning of communism.
Criticism of internationalist anti-war statement by the International Bolshevik Tendancy Criticism of this anti-war statement distributed at an anti-Iraq war demo in January 2003 by the International Bolshevik Tendancy. A reply by Red and Black Notes can be found here.
Brother, Can You Spare A Ukrainian Section? - Red and Black Notes Article by Red and Black Notes on the fraudulent "Ukrainian section" of several Trotskyist…
Is the East still red? - Notes on China - Red and Black Notes Red and Black Notes look at the nature of modern Chinese society.