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This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of the Soviet Union’s first communist leader, whose legacy in Russia and former Soviet republics is complicated.
The Holodomor is finally recognized for the genocidal crime that it was, but lessons still need to be drawn from what was involved to get to this stage and what still needs to be done.
Matthew Quest, writing for Insurgent Notes, details CLR James' treatment of Lenin across decades of James' work. While CLR James broke with with Trotskyism and Trotsky as well as the Leninist party form, he never properly broke with Lenin or his works.
ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis, <i>Oswald Spengler and the politics of decline</i> Bergharn Books, 2022, pp238, £99
Originally printed in the Weekly Worker Sean Matgamna of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty addressed the CPGB's Communist University '98 on his understanding of the Soviet Union, and the possibilities for communists since its demise. The class struggle takes place on three fronts - economic, political, and ideological. I think that the ideological conditions everything else. Central to the class struggle on the level of ideas is the question of the Soviet Union.