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22 February 2012
Wirral & Chester Socialist Party: Was Russia socialist?
The 1917 Russian Revolution was a major landmark in history. But was Russia under Stalin really a socialist country?, writes Wednesday 22 February 2012.
9 September 2010
Russia: Motorway construction through Khimkinsky forest halted
ON 7 August, Russian CWI activist, Igor Yasin, and two other CWI members, were brutally attacked by thugs following a peaceful protest in Moscow over the proposed construction of a major new road through Khimkinsky forest, part of Moscow's green belt, writes Igor Yasin, Moscow.
18 August 2010
Russia's raging wildfires - a crisis of government policies
DOZENS HAVE died in fires, thousands have drowned, hundreds have been arrested in the last month as the environmental crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicentre in Moscow, writes Rob Jones, Moscow.
23 June 2010
How deep is Britain's media crisis?
Feature The Independent and Independent on Sunday were sold in March to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for just £1, a tycoon who similarly bought London's Evening Standard for the same price in 2009...
'Kazakhstan 2012 conference’ in opposition to Nazabayev regime
7 April 2010
Kazakhstan: "change the politicians - or they will change you!"
The economic crisis has hit Kazakhstan harder and faster than most other parts of the world, but this has been met by massive struggles of the workers and poor...
30 March 2010
Farcical trial of socialist Ainur Kurmanov
With the snow covered Kok Tobe Mountains sheering into the sky as a backdrop and temperatures souring to a summery +25, a crowd gathered outside the courthouse in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to protest the latest attempt to silence Ainur Kurmanov, leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (CWI).
27 November 2009
British Marxist debates Stalin and Trotsky
CWI represented in Moscow debate: It's certainly the first time that the first speaker at a meeting in which the CWI participated was a Russian orthodox priest in full robe speaking through video link from St Petersburg...
27 November 2009
Statement from the CWI in Russia
Vital debates for socialists on the Russia/Georgia War, the capitalist crisis and the workers' movement...
28 October 2009
Book review: In this brisk, readable account, author Helen Rappaport looks at Lenin's life during his nearly two decades in exile in conditions of great privation and hardship...
14 September 2009
The State and Revolution. Postscript
The subject indicated in the title of this chapter is so vast that volumes could be written about it, writes The Author.
29 July 2009
Exhibition review: Brash, bold and belligerent, the artistic movement known as futurism hit the scene in early 1909. Later, it would give expression to political polar opposites: Italian fascist reaction and Russian socialist...
Leon Trotsky
7 July 2009
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Review: An account of Trotsky's last years in exile in Mexico, during his heroic struggles against Stalinism, fascism and capitalism, and, pertinently, during the last great economic crisis, is to be welcomed, Reviewed by Niall Mulholland
21 January 2009
Stanislav Markelov, a well known human rights lawyer, was shot dead after he left a press conference in Moscow, writes More in future issue.
5 November 2008
1918 revolution: When German workers entered the stage of history
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German revolutionary socialist Karl Liebknecht addresses a mass workers' demonstration |
PETER TAAFFE, in the first of two articles written for The Socialist, comments on the momentous events of 1918 in Germany.
2 October 2008
World financial meltdown: THE COLLAPSE of US banks is grabbing the headlines worldwide. But the consequences of the current crisis are also starting to hit the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China...
22 November 2007
Socialism 2007: Inspired by past victories, preparing for future struggles
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Socialism 2007 - Rally, photo Paul Mattsson |
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