The lessons of Stalinism
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How Marxists registered and learned from - or failed to register and learn from - the great expansion of Stalinism after World War Two. Click here to download pdf.
Marxism and Stalinism
The fall of Stalinism in Eastern Europe — Workers' Liberty 3/25:
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Download pdf (see "attachment"), or read online.
Timeline
Introduction
1. The risen people: Eastern Europe after the revolutions
2. What’s in the coffin at the funeral of socialism?
3. Lies against socialism answered
4. Stalin’s system collapses
5. Why socialists should support the banning of the CPSU
6. The triumph of unreason: market madness in the ex-USSR
7. What was the Bolsheviks’ conception of the 1917 revolution?
8. Why the workers want to restore capitalism
9. In the beginning was the critique of capitalism
10. An open letter to Ernest Mandel
11. Trotsky and the collapse of Stalinism
12. And where were Jacob Sverdlov's sons?
Sources
Workers' Liberty 3/11: 1917 - revolution for freedom and equality
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The Russian Revolution, the Stalinist counter-revolution, and the working class (Analyses from Labor Action and The New International, 1942 to 1957)
Download pdfs (without pictures): pages 1 to 8; pages 9 to 16.
What was the Stalinist USSR? A Marxist debate
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The main viewpoints summarised: contributions by Martin Thomas and Sean Matgamna from Workers' Liberty 16; by Martin Thomas from Workers' Liberty 43; by Tom Rigby from Workers' Liberty 45. Download as pdf.
"The Treason of the Intellectuals": buy here and contribute to AWL fund drive
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"The Treason of the Intellectuals, and other political verse" by Sean Matgamna includes political verse previously published in Solidarity and its forerunners.
60th anniversary of the Slansky Trial: Stalinism, anti-semitism and "anti-Zionism"
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PART ONE: THE REHEARSALS
2012 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the “Trial of the Anti-State Conspiratorial Centre led by Rudolf Slansky”, staged in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague.
Qui était Che Guevara?
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Texte provenant de la brochure We Stand for Workers Liberty (Nous défendons la liberté des travailleurs) publiée par l’organisation trotskyste britannique Alliance for Workers Liberty.
Tony Cliff: “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice”
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Paul Hampton reviews Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time by Ian Birchall (2011)
Stalinism: we haven’t voted for a label
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Dave Osler says (Solidarity 214) that the AWL has “adhered” to Shachtman’s position, i.e. that the Stalinist states were/are a form of class exploitation distinct from capitalism (“bureaucratic collectivism”). That’s not quite accurate.
Why did the Berlin Wall fall?
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The Berlin Wall, erected fifty years ago by the East German state, was a symbol of the totalitarian Stalinist systems. The wall was a monstrosity and we are glad it was torn down by Berliners at the end of 1989.