100 Years on: the Founding of the Communist International

The Third International became a vital school of revolutionary ideas and strategy. Rob Sewell (editor of Socialist Appeal, British journal of the IMT) looks back on this momentous event.

Lies, Damned Lies and Netflix: the Character Assassination of Leon Trotsky

A recent Netflix show, produced by Russian state television, is a scandalous misrepresentation of Trotsky’s life and the October Revolution.

Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918

Despite the tremendous energy of the Finnish masses, their leaders betrayed the revolution, and the forces of counterrevolution unleashed a bloodbath.

Trump’s Advisers Slander Socialism: A Reply to White House Lies—Part Three

In the third part of Alan Woods’s reply to Trump’s advisers’ “critique” of socialism, he addresses their gross mischaracterization of the Nordic economies, Venezuela, and the USSR.

Trump's Advisers Slander Socialism: A Reply to White House Lies—Part Two

In the second part of his reply to the White House’s slanders against socialism, Alan Woods addresses the reality of life for American workers under capitalism.

Base-Building or Bolshevism?

How can we reach the masses? This question has been at the center of revolutionary debate since the birth of the socialist movement.

Women’s Emancipation: From Marx and Engels to the Russian Revolution

Socialists have long been at the forefront of the struggle for gender equality.

Top Ten Lies About the Bolshevik Revolution

No other event in human history has been the subject of more distortions, falsehoods, fabrications, and downright lies as the Russian Revolution.

Reading Guide: Lenin Returns in April, 1917

“On the 3rd of April Lenin arrived in Petrograd from abroad. Only from that moment does the Bolshevik Party begin to speak out loud, and, what is more important, with its own voice.” — Leon […]

On the Day After the Revolution

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 marked a fundamental break with the old order and the beginning of the socialist transformation of society.

Trotsky in January 1917: “Bronx Man Leads Russian Revolution”

One hundred years ago today, on January 13, 1917, just weeks before the collapse of tsarism, the thirty-eight-year-old Trotsky arrived in New York City.

The October Revolution and LGBTQ Struggle

In its ascendant phase, the Russian Revolution enacted the most progressive laws of its time as a step towards the liberation of all the oppressed.