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The English translation of <em>Stalingrad</em> will not only finally introduce a broad readership to a masterpiece of world literature, but it will also help new generations, especially young people, to understand the enormous impact of the October Revolution.

The Socialist Equality Party and WSWS call on Wissler and the Left Party to publicly condemn the DSA leaders’ Twitter posts and other media publications celebrating Trotsky’s assassination.

I50 years of the Paris Commune Why the Paris Commune Still Resonates, 150 Years Later Thursday 3 June 2021, by Enzo Traverso There is a paradoxical discrepancy between the meteoric rise and fall of the Paris Commune, whose life did not exceed seventy-two days, and its lasting presence as a central experience in the Left’s historical consciousness. Viewed through the lens of what some scholars call “world history,” what happened in Paris between March 18 and May 28, 1871, is almost insign...

Ireland Thursday 3 June 2021, by John McAnulty Not for the first time the housing crisis in Ireland is coming to the fore. Public anger extends beyond the lack of housing and the extortionate mortgages and rents to protest the role of international vulture funds in the Irish housing market, especially the bulk buying of estates, freezing out locals. What is not so clearly seen is that the housing crisis arises when the Irish model of collaboration with transnational capital is working normally...

London bus driver David O’Sullivan was sacked by his employer Metroline after warning his colleagues about the spread of coronavirus at the depot where he worked.

Notwithstanding the conflicts between them, the ideologists of the Soviet bureaucracy on the one hand and American capitalism on the other shared a common and politically indispensable lie: that the Soviet leaders were dedicated Marxists and that the Soviet Union was, more or less, a socialist society.

In carrying out these trials, Joseph Stalin was launching an assault on the legacy and the leaders of the first successful socialist revolution.

SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias said that the online meeting represented “a new stage” in the struggle to build an Indian section of the ICFI.

What does it mean to be a left anti-imperialist today?

Vladimir Lenin: the facts Author: Leon Trotsky (Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th edition) Lenin LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV (1870-1924), founder and guiding spirit of the Soviet Republics and the Communist International, the disciple of Marx, the leader of the Bolshevik party and the organizer of the Oct. revolution in Russia, was born on April 9 (22), 1870, in the town of Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk. His father, Ilya Nicolaevitch, was a schoolmaster. His mother, Maria Alexandrovna, was the daughte...