Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam…
Some cursory thoughts on the imminent bombing of Syria / ISIS An immediate and unthinking call to bomb a country following a terrorist outrage committed by…
The case of the General Union of the Jewish Workers of Russia, Poland and Lithuania A left communist look at the Jewish Labour Bund.
Russia and Ukraine: history called up on national service The Russian and Ukrainian elites are mobilising, and misrepresenting, history, to justify each side…
Stalinism without Stalin An article from Views & Comments, the publication of the Libertarian League, about the Independent Socialist League's analysis of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death.
The latest deception - Gabriel Miasnikov In this essay first published in 1930 in France, the founder of the Workers Group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims seized power in a …
Stalin didn't fall from the moon - Workers Solidarity Movement A collection of articles by the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement tracing the growth of Stalin's…
Conquered city - Victor Serge Victor Serge's novel about the early days of the Bolshevik regime, written in 1932 in France after being expelled from the Soviet Union and part…
Democratic centralism, the Workers Opposition, clandestine opposition movements, the crisis in the party, Kronstadt and the end of the revolutionary period in Russia - Michel Olivier A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to…
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…
Gay in the gulag Historical information about the repression of gay men in the Soviet Union in the wake of the government's re-criminalisation of homosexuality in 1933, after its decriminalisation in 1922…
