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In 1922, Russia was marking the fifth anniversary of the 1917 coup that brought the Bolsheviks to power, but the country's future seemed very much up in the air. It was the crucial events of that year that marked a tumultuous break with the past and set the mold for decades of dictatorship.

Russia entered 1922 with a shaky government ruling largely by martial law, a civil war still raging, a famine spreading across the Volga region, parts o

Russia entered 1922 with a shaky government ruling largely by martial law, a civil war still raging, a famine spreading across the Volga region, parts o

This is the preface to a volume of writings of Halil Celik published by the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu of Turkey, three years after Comrade Halil’s untimely death of cancer.

The death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu has illustrated, again, just how toxic public life has become in South Africa, writes political analyst Imraan Buccus.

The human rights organization and research center Memorial is being targeted by the Putin government because its work cuts across the Kremlin’s efforts to rehabilitate and justify the crimes of Stalin.

By Juan Carlos Espinosa Mexico City, Dec 29 (EFE).- Not even the most respected authorities on the history of Mexican art would dare to try to sum up muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros (1898-1974) in a single word. The future artist, soldier, labor organizer and Communist militant who tried to assassinate Leon Trotsky was born 125 …

The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) recognized, as early as 1985, that Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika expressed the drive of the Stalinist bureaucracy to reintegrate the Soviet economy with the world market through the restoration of capitalism.

The May Fourth movement launched the Chinese upheavals of the 1920s - and the original, pre-Stalinist, revolutionary Chinese Communism This article argues that a renewed socialism for the 21st century will be based on independent working class politics. It uses the “Third Camp” as a formula for summing up this essential element for Marxist history and for current intervention in the class struggle. China represents a fertile example in both these respects.

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