Stalinism
Michel Pablo et l’expérience soviétique
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
En lisant attentivement les multiples hommages, généralement élogieux, que la presse grecque a rendu à Michel Raptis (Pablo) lors de son...
The Revolutionary Life and Times of Michel Pablo
The Greek revolutionary Michel Pablo had a remarkable, globe-spanning career, from wartime resistance activity to his work supplying weapons and finance for the Algerian...
October Revolution: The first general recognition of women’s equality in History
The land of the October revolution: a country of women walking on the road to emancipation
By Armağan Tulunay
Take the position of women. In this...
An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World...
Published at November 6, 2007
IT IS NO surprise that the imminent 90th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia has become the object...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...
Aleksandr Buzgalin and his time. The Soviet/Russian tragedy
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
I started writing this farewell to my friend Aleksandr Buzgalin (*), whom I had known since the perestroika times, while I was...
A clean banner: British Trotskyists opposed 1948 partition of Palestine
Socialist Appeal (paper of the RCP in 1940s)
23 November 2023
We are publishing two articles documenting the principled position taken by the British Trotskyists, the...
Maxime Rodinson: What Marxism Can Teach Us About the History of...
Between the nineteen fifties and nineties, Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) was one of France’s most famous Arabists. Gifted with an admirable encyclopedic culture, author of...
How Joseph Stalin Helped Create the State of Israel
Joseph Stalin committed numerous crimes against the international working class. But one of his greatest crimes was the support he gave to the foundation...
Quand la Quatrième Internationale se déclarait contre la partition de la...
En 1947, l'ONU approuvait la résolution 181 qui décidait la partition de la Palestine et permettait la création artificielle de l'Etat d'Israël. La Quatrième...