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The AWL in London will start a new study course on Thursday 9 May: "Understanding the history of the 20th century in order to make the history of the 21st - A Marxist study course on the rise and the nature of Stalinism". Each session will be run three times - on Thursday evening, and on the following Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening - and you can attend at any one of the three times each week, so as few people as possible miss sessions. Time and place: Thursdays, 7pm at the Exmouth Arms, Starcross St, London NW1. Sundays, please phone or email for details.

In the first of a series of critical responses to The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism, recently published by Phoenix Press and Workers’ Liberty, Alan Johnson (senior lecturer in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University College) argues that the book can play an invaluable role in restoring democracy to the heart of Marxism and help lay to rest

Ernest Haberkern The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Volume One is a significant contribution to the literature of the anti-Stalinist left. Long buried in the archives the polemics and analyses of those socialists who refused to accept the definition of Stalin's barbaric regime as a "workers' state" simply because property was nationalised and private property, large and small, was obliterated, deserve to see the light. My criticism of this anthology should in no way detract from the valuable contribution made and, in view of the promised second volume, the crit...