state socialism

Nick Cohen’s new book is a rebuke to liberal intellectuals who have drowned in their own jargon and Leninist apparatchiks who have become apologists for Islamic fundamentalism. It sounds like a timely and salient contribution to debate, right?

Apart from North Korea and Cuba, no country calls itself socialist any more. So why bother about old…

Ben Bella, a leading figure in the Algerian Front Liberation Nationale during the struggle against French colonialism, speaks of his…

An account of the rapid decline of one of the world's most powerful workers' and left-wing movements in the face of fascism.

The history of the Hungarian workers' revolution against the Communist dictatorship. A general strike was declared, and workers' councils sprung…

Solidarity's account and analysis of the "socialist" Labour government's war against dockworkers.

A critical article about 1970s West German Marxist urban guerrilla group the Red Army Faction,…

A brief history of Cuba and the 1958 Revolution which examines the alleged "socialist" nature of the governing regime.

Bolivian military and police forces have taken control of four main airports, aiming to break an airline workers' strike in major cities.

Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report on the conditions and views of Vietnamese manufacturing workers who have been responsible for waves of wildcat strikes in recent months.

Despite the election of Evo Morales from the Movement for Socialism as President of Bolivia, several strikes are in process and the persecution of the landless movement MST continues under the new regime.

Paresh Chattopadhyay's article on Marx and the divergence of the Bolsheviks from his conception of…