New Life for the Old Lenin
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly’s remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin’s political legacy. After reading and reviewing Paul Le Blanc’s excellent new book …
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly’s remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin’s political legacy. After reading and reviewing Paul Le Blanc’s excellent new book …
Steve Bloom takes on Donald Parkinson’s arguments around the minimum-maximum program, warning against schematicism and calling for clarity around class content. In his essay titled …
Cliff Connolly reviews Paul LeBlanc’s latest work ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press on September 20th. Cliff will be speaking on …
Henry De Groot argues that the ideas of Hal Draper, influential throughout the US left, are an obstacle to socialist labor strategy. DSA members have …
Translation by Mark Alexandrovic. The original publication was prepared by Cherny, Andrey Vitalievich, head of the department of the Museum of the Revolution. Introduction The …
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
Translations by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Mark Alexandrovich and Renato Flores. Osinsky is the pseudonym of old Bolshevik Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky. Born in 1887, Osinsky …
Doug Enaa Greene on the Hungarian Soviet Republic and its tragic defeat. It is 1919 and Russia is in the midst of a ruthless civil …
Ian Szabo writes on the history of the African Blood Brotherhood as part of a broader tradition of black liberation that merged with International Communism …
Shalon Van Tine provides an overview of Soviet Film and its development in relation to the politics of the USSR and Bolshevik Revolution. The Rise …
A reply by Medway Baker to Sophia Burns’ article For the Unity of Marxists, or the Unity of the Dispossessed?. In a previous article, Comrade …
Translation and introduction by Medway Baker. Boris Souvarine was one of the leading founders of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1921, after having founded …
Translation and Introduction by Medway Baker. Georgy Safarov was born in St. Petersburg in 1891. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1908, and from 1910 spent …
Translation and introduction by Örsan Şenalp and Asim Khairdean The below is an attempt to provide an English translation of one of the key texts of …