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...