Thursday, 21 November , 2024

Stalinism

Stalin and the creation of Israel

Jul 26, 2024 The Palestinian people were forcibly expelled from their homeland by Zionist armed militias in 1948, in an event which remains in their...

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...