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19 August 2020
75 years since the publication of Animal Farm: From 'two legs bad' to 'two legs better'
What does Orwell's fable actually say about revolution?
26 June 2019
Opinion: capitalism's Fukushima showed same recklessness as Stalinism's Chernobyl
While lauding the marvellous TV series Chernobyl, the capitalist press has gleefully criticised 'socialism', and even Corbyn, for the Ukrainian nuclear disaster
12 June 2019
TV Review: Chernobyl - Workers' heroism vs sclerotic Stalinism
This five-part docudrama focuses on the disaster in 1986 that took place at the Chernobyl (now part of Ukraine) nuclear facility in the Soviet Union.
6 March 2019
Leon Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism
Ninety years ago this January, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and his increasingly powerful bureaucracy gave the command.
2 May 2018
200 years of Karl Marx: Marxist ideas more relevant than ever
Marx was born 200 years ago on 5 May. Together with Engels, he formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world
28 February 2018
Corbyn didn't collaborate with Stalinism - but with Trotskyists against it
Sun 'commie spy' smear: Jeremy Corbyn stands accused of collaborating with Czechoslovak Stalinism - but his backing of a Trotskyist call for workers' democracy shows the opposite
14 February 2018
Czechoslovakia 1968: 'Prague Spring' challenges Stalinism
Frustrated workers and youth took the removal of their hardline Stalinist president as the cue
15 November 2017
Letters to the Socialist's editors including cancer treatment privatisation, The Death of Stalin, mental health cuts and Arriva profits.
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
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
22 March 2017
Precise, visceral account of working class heroism
Non-fiction review - 'Spain in our hearts': Left-leaning academic Adam Hochschild's remarkable latest work collects the visceral stories of Americans and Canadians who fought fascism as part of the 'International Brigades' in Spain's 1936-9 civil war
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
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.
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.
24 February 2016
Khrushchev: the Stalinist who denounced Stalin
60 years ago, at the 20th conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956, first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounced the dictatorial crimes of Joseph Stalin who had died in 1953.
24 February 2016
Police violence must be condemned: Brutal policing caused a riot in the downtown district of Mong Kok on the first night of the Chinese New Year, 8 February. Socialists on the ground give an eyewitness report.
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.
French resistance fighters liberated Paris from Nazi occupation
27 May 2015
VE Day: When 'liberation' meant socialism
Commemorations marking the 70th anniversary 'victory in Europe' (VE) day recently took place in Britain (and throughout the world) with establishment dignitaries saluting veteran service men and women who liberated Europe from the clutches of fascism
11 July 2014
Issac Babel: 120th anniversary
13th July 2014 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet Russian writer Isaac Babel
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