Russia
Saudi crisis threatens wider war in the Middle East
13 November 2017
The recent mass arrests in Saudi Arabia combined with the kidnapping of Lebanon’s prime minister, the escalation of the war against Yemen...
Russian nukes would cause ‘overwhelming damage’ to any potential enemy –...
Russia’s nuclear deterrence is strong enough to ensure a “level of unacceptable damage” to any potential aggressor, the Chief of the General Staff has...
Leon Trotsky: Twenty Years After 1905
A speech by Leon Trotsky (December 1925)
This is a speech made by Leon Trotsky on 26 December 1925 and reproduced in the Soviet newspaper,...
The War will provoke Revolution! The Durnovo memorandum to the Tsar
In the following Memorandum addressed to the Tsar in February 1914, the ex-Interior Minister Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo predicts with what happened in 1917 with...
Socialism, Land and Banking
2017 compared to 1917
By Michael Hudson
October 19, 2017
Socialism a century ago seemed to be the wave of the future. There were various schools of...
Vanity Fair suggests Russians are ‘hopeless primitives’ from a medieval country
By Bryan MacDonald
18 Apr, 2017
Vanity Fair apparently believes Russians are 'hopeless primitives' who rejected the attempts of smart people to ‘civilize’ them. Specifically folk...
Poll shows almost half of Russians believe October Revolution reflected majority...
At the same time, 92% of Russians consider a new revolution in Russia as unacceptable
OSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Forty-five percent of Russians believe that...
In Seoul, Trump delivers war ultimatum to North Korea
By James Cogan
8 November 2017
President Donald Trump’s address to the South Korean National Assembly today was the latest in a long list...
The October 1917 Revolution started off the transformation of the world...
The aim of this chapter, written especially for the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, is certainly not to denigrate this first gigantic...
100 years on from the Russian Revolution, could a 21st century...
Since 1917, countless social movements have taken their cue from this momentous uprising, and its lasting impact on the world may yet to be felt fully
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