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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...

Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...

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...

Leon Trotsky on Lenin

Written by Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky’s essay on Vladimir Lenin is historically significant not because it is trustworthy in its judgments but because it is...

Vladimir Lenin’s Testament

"Last Testament" Letters to the Congress Written: December 1922 - January 1923 First Published: 1956 in Kommunist (No. 9) Source: Lenin Collected Works, Volume 36 (p. 593-611) Online Version:...

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...

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...

The German Revolution of 1923

This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the German Revolution of 1923. The tragic failure of this revolution marked a turning point and represented...

The (official) Fourth International. Reflections on a paradoxical pro-imperialist drift

By Dimitris Scarpalezos (*) Compared to past conflicts, the war in Ukraine is characterized in Europe by a majority adherence of even "radical" leftists...