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Incarcerated by a Greek dictator, narrowly escaping the Nazis in occupied France, and tried and convicted of aiding the Algerian revolution in the Netherlands in 1961: never a dull moment for the well-dressed revolutionary Mihalis Raptis. Hall Greenland has written a sympathetic but critical biography of the man better known as Michel Pablo, long-time secretary of the Fourth International.

The ideological foundations of U.S. foreign policy have neo-Trotskyite foundations. Hatred of the USSR since the time of Stalin was the primary motivation for Trotskyists to the point where a significant faction considered the USSR and Stalinism rather than America and capitalism as the major obstacles to world socialism. This faction was co-opted into the Cold War and has provided the ideological impetus for U.S. foreign policy ever since.

Iván lived in a Rochester that doesn't exist; it influenced his poetry.

Andy Boyd’s world premiere drama plays the Tank.

New film about the Mexican artist quotes extensively from her unguarded, strident diaries and notebooks

The statement of the Russian Socialist Movement about the means of achieving peace in Ukraine

Russian Socialist Movement — Two years ago, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This was not a response to any military threat posed by Ukraine or NATO: it was an attempt to subjugate a neighboring country that Putin simply believes should not exist.

Heartfield’s artistic efforts of the 1920s and 1930s were directed against the same militarists, nationalists and fascists once again crawling out of the woodwork of today’s crisis-ridden capitalist society.

From Litvinenko to Navalny, the stream of shocking assassinations is meant to subdue a brutalised Russian people

Many of those killed while fighting Moscow’s authoritarianism had lived abroad, where they soaked up the democratic values they then tried to introduce to Russia