As the Russian Army swept into Gori from where the Georgian Army had launched its assault on Tshkinvali they came face to face with its most infamous son. The statue of Josef Vissiaronovich…

State-capitalism is a description of capitalist reality - not a theory. As we have seen with the course of events of the 20th Century that both "private" and "state"…

(Translated from Prometeo 15, June 2007)

1936, 1937, 1938 ... it was during the course of these three years that the Stalinist regime wiped out the entire Bolshevik old guard as…

(From Prometeo Series IV # 10, December 1986 - Translated by the CWO in 2006)

1986 is a year of anniversaries and memories which, though sad, are rich in lessons for the proletariat: it is…

(From Battaglia Comunista #12, December 1956/January 1957 - Translated by the CWO in 2006)

The economy of the USSR is today the acid test for revolutionary organisations who would base…

Its Significance for Workers Today

It is now well over a decade since the collapse of the USA’s first arch enemy, the ‘Empire of Evil’ that was the Soviet Union. The Cold…

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The 25th anniversary of the workers’ rising in Hungary of October 1956 gives us the opportunity to demolish both the myth of reactionaries that it was simply a nationalist…

By one of those ironies of history March 2003 saw both the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Stalin and the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the death of Marx. Despite all bourgeois…