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October 12, 2023
For those who want to end capitalist rule, much can still be learnt from the October Revolution because its experience critically poses key political questions. The first in this two-part series by Jonathan Strauss seeks to respond to the question: Was the October Revolution a coup?
October 12, 2023
In recent months, several of the few memorials to victims of the Terror have been vandalized in Russia, while busts and monuments to Stalin are being erected.
October 12, 2023
A reader still insists I transform this real estate into an Orwellian two-minute hate session against a former president employed used as a de facto stand-in for Emmanuel Goldstein, George Orwell’s strawman version of Leon Trotsky in “1984.” If we all join in the fray of the two-minute hate, we’ll conveniently forget the rampant incompetence […]
October 12, 2023
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October 11, 2023
War and the human condition. Much of human history is written in blood. During the First World War, a German soldier died every 45 seconds. French deaths were even greater. During the Battles of Verdun and the Somme, 277 soldiers died every minute. Some 20,000 British soldiers died every four days during the war’s four and a half years.
October 11, 2023
Today's Water Cooler
October 10, 2023
Blame for these tragedies must be assigned where it belongs: In the first instance to the criminal Israeli apartheid regime and its US backers, together with the whole reactionary Zionist project of establishing an exclusivist Jewish state by expelling Palestinians and confining them to a constantly shrinking set of open-air prisons and ghettos.
October 10, 2023
They “incarnated an epoch,” wrote Victor Serge of the ¬revolutionary and working class militants of the Left Opposition
October 9, 2023
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
October 9, 2023
This letter, sent by Leon Trotsky on October 8, 1923, to members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, was one of the most important documents that led to the emergence of the Left Opposition.