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23 May 2012
West London Socialist Party: The February 1917 Russian revolution
This meeting is one of a series that will discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution. It will look at the events of February 1917, when the Tsar was overthrown, and will touch on issues such as 'What is a revolution?'...
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
15 February 2012
Another attempt to assassinate the legacy of Leon Trotsky?
Condemnation of Leon Trotsky is well-trodden ground for so-called biographer Robert Service. Service was condemned by The American Historical Review (June 2011), which considered his 'biography' of Trotsky
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 |
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 |
Lenin speaking, Trotsky standing to the right
11 October 2007
1917 October Revolution: the working class took power
Russian revolution 90th anniversary: THE CAPITALIST media have made little comment on the 90th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Peter Taaffe looks at the events of the October revolution in Russia 1917.
9 August 2007
Exchanging socialist ideas worldwide
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) held its annual summer school in Belgium. The socialist gives here some excerpts of the reports given by its sister European sections.
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