USSR
Corona-crisis: the West, Germany and the European left
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
April 25, 2020
Humanity is facing one of the most serious and complex crises in its history. It is not only a health...
Giulietto Chiesa (1940-2020): An intellectual of action
It is with great sorrow that we learned yesterday, April 26th, that Giulietto Chiesa has passed away. One of the most remarkable European intellectuals...
“Lenin’s Last Struggle” recounts a losing campaign against the emerging Stalin
By Gary Bono
January 22, 2016
I have previously written about the excellent and informative book, “The Soviet Century” by the Soviet-born historian Moshe Lewin, but...
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)
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Leon Trotsky: Lenin (1925)
Transcriber’s Notes
This transcription of Leon Trotsky’s 1925 Lenin came about through a donation from the personal archives of Asher and Ruth Harer in San...
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...
Why Was Lenin’s Body Preserved?
By Andrei Tapalaga
Jan 17, 2020
Vladimir Ilich Lenin is still considered to this day the father of communism for how the Soviet union evolved around...
Tariq Ali on Lenin, Engels, Palestinians and Nasser
Talking Lenin with Tariq Ali – I
Raza Naeem sat down with one of the most influential leftists of our world today to discuss politics,...
Putin promised to keep Lenin’s body in Moscow mausoleum, communists say
2 Aug, 2017
The head of the Russian Communist Party has said that Vladimir Putin promised him that as long as he remains president, Vladimir...
The “Immortals”: From Chernobyl to Gavdos, Crete
The Immortals at the Southern Point of Europe - Official Trailer
March 27, 2013
After the disastrous explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, one of the few...