December 2021 marked the 30th anniversary of the USSR’s collapse. Capitalism reared its ugly head, and the workers of the Soviet Union had to pay the price.
The Russian Revolution is slandered as undemocratic, when in reality it involved the most far-reaching and revolutionary democracy the world has ever seen.
Rosa Luxemburg has often been misrepresented as an opponent of the October Revolution, Lenin, and the Bolsheviks. Now it’s time to set the record straight.
104 years ago, the Russian working class seized power. To celebrate the anniversary, we are excited to publish this exclusive eye-witness account of revolutionary Russia in 1920.
We present here a reading guide to In Defence Of October, which can help comrades digest the key ideas from this classic Marxist text by Leon Trotsky.
Capitalism should long ago have been overthrown by the working class. Why hasn’t it? The key to answering this question lies in the role of leadership and of the revolutionary party.
We publish the introduction to our new edition of “The First Five Years of the Communist International,” which outlines some of the key debates and decisions taken in the first four congresses of the Communist International.
A review of “The First Five Years of the Communist International,” consisting of Trotsky’s writings and speeches on building the Third International. The book is rich with lessons for the workers’ struggle today.
As the economic, social, political, and military crises deepened in the autumn of 1917, Lenin outlined a series of transitional demands, arguing that the socialist transformation of society was the only way out.
Today marks the 150th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the great revolutionary leader. Whilst the bourgeois historians and liberals slander him, we celebrate his life and ideas, which are more relevant now than ever.
Just a few years after it entered the scene of history, the Comintern suffered a sudden, irreversible decline. How was all that potential squandered and turned into its opposite?
Fred Weston, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses the lessons of the Third International on the centennial of its founding.
