Wednesday, 6 December , 2023

Soviets

What Was Lenin Thinking?

By Tariq Ali April 3, 2017 LONDON — What was Vladimir Lenin thinking on the long journey to Petrograd’s Finland Station in 1917? Like everyone else, he...

Socialisme et autogestion (Contribution à une esquisse des fondements de la...

Par Michel Paptis L'autogestion est devenue synonyme de la démocratie socialiste, c'est-à-dire du régime qui caractérise la société de transition succédant au capitalisme. On ne...

Seeking Robespierre

Yellow Vests: The search for a “collective Robespierre”, for a new Incorruptible! By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 03/14/2019 Article two of three (Read the first article here) “We need time,”...

The French Anti-Neoliberal Revolution. On the conditions for its success

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 11/1/2018 The magazine Le Point is one of the main media outlets of the French conservative “centre-right”.  One of its December issues carries...

John Reed: How the Soviets were really functioning in the beginning

Soviets in Action First Published: October 1918 in The Liberator Transcription/Markup: Revolutionary History/Brian Baggins Online Version: John Reed Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000 Through all the chorus of abuse...

Bolsheviks Seize Power

Subject essay: Lewis Siegelbaum The Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd in October 1917 was celebrated for over seventy years by the Soviet government as...