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11 April 2018
Striking analysis in heat of 1917 will deepen any reader's understanding
Non-fiction: Trotsky in 1917: 'Trotsky in 1917' is the most complete collection in English of some of the contributions of Leon Trotsky, one of the Russian revolution's key leaders alongside Vladimir Lenin, in that crucial year
25 October 2017
Well-deserved ridicule of Stalinism is impressive, funny but flawed
Film - The Death of Stalin: Fans of The Thick of It's lampooning of New Labour will notice parallels. The Stalinists, like the Blairites, are egotistical buffoons, completely isolated from the working class
18 October 2017
October 1917 reviews: 'More bright than any heaven'
The October revolution showed countless millions that workers have the power to stop exploitation and oppression. It's no surprise these events inspired marvellous documentary and artistic works. The Socialist revisits some of the classic accounts of 1917 - and comments on some more recent efforts to smear it...
18 October 2017
Russia, October 1917: When workers took power
The centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile - not mainly aimed at the February revolution, but at October
9 August 2017
Marx's Capital at 150: an unequalled analysis and critique of capitalism
The Daily Mail reacted with predictable hysteria when, in May 2017, John McDonnell stated: "You can't understand the capitalist system without reading Marx's Das Kapital."
26 July 2017
Russia 1917: how art helped make the revolution
Revolution in Russia swept away the dictatorial rule of the Tsar in February 1917. Then in October, led by the Bolshevik Party, a second revolution set up the world's first workers' state
12 July 2017
July Days 1917: battles with counterrevolution
Massive demonstrations involving nearly a million people erupted in Petrograd on 2-3 July 1917, in a colossal outburst of anger and discontent
6 July 2017
Lessons from the Russian revolution for LGBT+ struggle today
When the Soviet Criminal Code was established in 1922, male homosexuality was not included as a criminal act
29 March 2017
April 1917: how the Bolsheviks reorientated
Lenin's arrival from exile on 3 April 1917 turned the Bolshevik party upside down and changed the course of history.
1 March 2017
Lessons of Russia 1917 for women's struggle today
The 1917 Russian revolution was a momentous moment in working class history, in which women played a pivotal and active role
22 February 2017
February revolution 1917 - what lessons for today?
The February 1917 revolution in Russia marked the beginning of the socialist revolution later that year
15 February 2017
No, Trumpism is nothing like Leninism
Steve Bannon, investment banker and chief strategist to US president Donald Trump, once called himself "a Leninist"!
8 February 2017
Smearing socialism by attacking the arts
The Russian revolution a hundred years ago is still a terrifying calamity - for billionaire thieves, warmongers and their political defenders. But for the working class, it meant a boom in living standards, freedom and imagination.
8 February 2017
Tense, lively prologue to events which changed the world
Non-fiction review: Lenin on the Train: When the February revolution broke out in Russia in 1917 and the Tsar was overthrown, Vladimir Lenin was living in exile in Switzerland.
18 January 2017
Peter Taaffe reviews two books that focus on February 1917: Trotsky in New York 1917 - a radical on the eve of revolution by Kenneth D Ackerman; and Two Years of Wandering - a Menshevik leader in Lenin's Russia by Fedor Il'ich Dan.
27 September 2016
Review by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe of "The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky", published in the latest issue of Socialism Today.
Leon Trotsky
11 August 2016
Trotskyism has been in the news since Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party, accused some new members of the Labour Party of being supporters of Trotsky.
1 June 2016
Workers across France are stepping up their action against the country's new labour law, with strikes in various sectors and big demonstrations. The French working class has a long history of struggle, including widespread sit-in strikes in May-June 1936. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of this movement, and to learn its lessons, here we carry an extract from an article written by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe and published in Militant (predecessor of the Socialist) in 1978.
2 September 2015
Zimmerwald Conference 1915: lessons for the socialist movement
100 years ago, during the carnage of World War One, a small number of socialist delegates assembled at an anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland.
German revolutionary socialist Karl Liebknecht addresses a mass workers' demonstration
11 February 2015
1918: When German workers entered history
Last year was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, covered by the Socialist in previous issues. But when the war ended, it was in a wave of revolution, most notably in Russia in 1917, but also Germany in 1918
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