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.
A Socialist Programme for Poland
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A declaration issued by a workers' committee in Poland in 1989. Published in our pamphlet "Eastern Europe: towards capitalism or workers' liberty?"
The legacy of Agnes McLean
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Publicity for this year’s Glasgow May Day demonstration and rally refers to the celebrations including “a tribute to Agnes McLean.”
The Real Story of the Russian Revolution
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A Czech demonstrator told the Sunday Correspondent's reporter that he disliked the word "revolution": it was too Bolshevik.
Why “default Stalinism” is still a problem
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A Tory councillor in Redbridge recently described calls to limit tweeting in Town Hall meetings as “Stalinist”.
The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
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There is a rich and authentic tendency of Latin American Marxism, in which José Carlos Mariátegui is probably the brightest star. His contribution during the 1920s has rightly earned him the epitaph of Latin America’s Gramsci.
Jim Riordan, the Spartak spy
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I knew the writer and academic Jim Riordan, who died last week, briefly in the early 90s when I was researching, and active in politics, at Surrey University where he was professor of Russian.