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August 1914 was a decisive turning point for the world socialist movement. A fundamental divide opened between reformists and revolutionaries when most parties of the Socialist International supported their own ruling classes in the world war.

The YGBL in Russia and Ukraine submitted this statement to protest attempts to ban the IYSSE at Bochum University, Germany, from campus.

Cipher Brief Expert Beth Sanner explores what we know about Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's uncertain fate - and what we don't

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera appear together in a new exhibition exploring the pair’s many shared passions, from love to social revolution.

Whatever Russia is called outwardly, there is an inner eternal Russia whose embryonic character places her on an antithetical course to that of the USA.

Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.

Whatever the outcome of the legal proceedings against the ex-president, the drive towards dictatorship and war is rooted in the crisis of American and world capitalism.

Today’s left largely misunderstands and therefore misrepresents Clara Zetkin’s contribution to the politics of Marxism. Ben Lewis provides an excerpt from the introduction to a newly translated pamphlet

In opposing the arrest of Kagarlitsky and calling for his release, the YGBL and WSWS do not extend any support to his reactionary politics and we reject his designation as a “left-wing” critic of the Putin regime and the war in Ukraine.

Simon Bennett for Troy Media • Dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin would do well to remember the saying: After Hubris, Nemesis