Eastern Europe

The fall of Stalinism in Eastern Europe — Workers' Liberty 3/25:

Submitted on 18 November, 2009 - 23:08

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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?
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Don't blame migrants

Submitted on 8 May, 2013 - 17:34

Author:

Editorial

Within a year”, says a typical scaremongering Ukip leaflet, “29 million Romanians and Bulgarians will gain the right to live, work and draw benefits here”.

Migrants scare is a distraction

Submitted on 27 March, 2013 - 10:17

Author:

Gerry Bates

On Sunday 25 March David Cameron wrote a piece for the Sun railing about so-called health and benefit tourism by migrants!

Lessons from Bulgaria

Submitted on 6 March, 2013 - 12:49

Author:

Theodora Polenta

In Greece, a place all too familiar with poverty and the results of “austerity”, Bulgaria is reknowned for starvation wages (although the cost of living is far cheaper), the host country for Greek companies looking for cheap labour and as the site of dangerous nuclear power plants.

Bulgarian crisis

Submitted on 1 March, 2013 - 17:51

Author:

Robert Fox

The resignation of the Bulgarian government on Tuesday 19 February amid escalating popular protests provides an illustration of the way in which austerity and neo-liberalism interact — and, more positively, the way in which this can lead resistance.

Anti-racists fight “special schools” for Roma

Submitted on 14 November, 2012 - 08:51

Author:

Rob Fox

Roma, Traveller, and socialist activists demonstrated outside the Czech and Slovakian embassies in Kensington on Tuesday 13 November against the policy of “special schools” for Roma children in these countries.

A Socialist Programme for Poland

Submitted on 2 May, 2012 - 12:25

Author:

Wroclaw Regional Workers' Committee of the Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution

A declaration issued by a workers' committee in Poland in 1989. Published in our pamphlet "Eastern Europe: towards capitalism or workers' liberty?"

Hungary: rise of Jobbik

Submitted on 29 February, 2012 - 12:13

Author:

Cathy Nugent

Stan Crooke’s article on Hungary’s Fidesz government (Solidarity 235) outlined its right-wing, anti-democratic programme. It is worth also noting the rising popularity of Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary).

Right takes hold in Hungary

Submitted on 22 February, 2012 - 10:52

Author:

Stan Crooke

In Hungary, capitalist crisis has led to triumph for the right, not the left.

EU leaders blackmail Greece

Submitted on 8 February, 2012 - 13:55

Author:

Theodora Polenta

The push for new cuts in Greece is backed up by ever-increasing “carefully” leaked scenarios of a disorderly Greek bankruptcy as early as March and the expulsion of Greece from the eurozone.