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Who was Lenin? He led the workers of the Tsarist Russian Empire to make the most profound revolution in history in 1917. He was the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party, without which the workers would have been defeated.
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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
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A collection of articles on solidarity with workers in Eastern Europe before the revolutions of 1989, and on those revolutions and the prospects they opened up
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[Note: this site is still in process of construction.]
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Though Leon Trotsky’s writings on Spain fill a large volume, he wrote no concise overview of the Spanish revolution. Our “diary” is culled from the commentaries he produced all through the last decade of his life: the last item here is dated 20 August 1940, the day Trotsky was assassinated.
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What is the socialist programme for resolving the conflict in Northern Ireland? Sean Matgamna, editor of Workers’ Liberty, debated at the Workers’ Liberty 1997 summer school with John McAnulty of Socialist Democracy, formerly People’s Democracy, the Irish group of one of the main international strands of Marxist politics, the Fourth International (United Secretariat) associated with the late Ernest Mandel.
Sean Matgamna
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The Afghan Tragedy: USSR troops out - the socialist case. Published by Socialist Organiser as 'Socialist Forum' magazine no.3, July 1985.
Click here to download whole text as pdf, or read online.
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By Sean Matgamna
It is 70 years since one of the greatest figures in the history of the socialist movement was assassinated.
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The Oxford dictionary dates the word "democrat" from 1790 ("an adherent or advocate of democracy; orig. opposed to aristocrat in the French Revolution"). It dates "revolutionary", in general use, from 1794; "liberal" in the modern sense and "constituent assembly" from 1801; "radical", from 1802; "socialist", from 1833.
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Cassius: Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er
In states yet unborn and in accents yet unknown.
Julius Caesar
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A debate on aspects of the history of Irish Trotskyism and Irish Republicanism. Originally titled,"Irish Marxist rebuts internet slander and Comments on a smear job", the first article appeared on the website of "Socialist Democracy", the Irish Mandelites. In an abusive and typically foolish introductory paragraph, they say that they themselves are unwilling "to join in this arcane discussion, but we do recognise Raynor’s right to defend himself and publish the letter in that spirit."
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It is now twenty-five years since the Trotskyist movement was launched in the United States under circumstances which had already ceased to be unusual for that movement. The date was 27 October 1928.
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(From the St Pancras Bulletin, May 5-10 1926)
A is for ALL, ALL OUT and ALL WIN,
And down with the blacklegs and scabs who stay in.
B is for Baldwin, the Bosses’ Strong Man,
But he’s welcome to dig all the coal that he can
