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30 years of the end of the USSR

Special | From the Republic of Soviets to the Stalinist Counter-revolution

December 12, 2021 The experience of the Paris Commune, the first instance of proletarian revolution, brought Marx and Engels to a transformative conclusion regarding their understanding of the State. Unlike prior revolutionary processes, the conquest of political power by the revolutionary proletariat should not result in the adoption and application of the state apparatus, but […]
30 years of the end of the USSR

17 de dez de 2021
Special | Stalinism and Trotskyism: Reassessing their Legacies in the Face of Eastern European Upheaval

Special | Stalinism and Trotskyism: Reassessing their Legacies in the Face of Eastern European Upheaval
By Martín Hernández Originally published in Spanish in the magazine Correo Internacional no. 17, May 2017, 44-47. Translated by Dolores Underwood from this article When the masses overthrew Stalinist regimes, the bourgeoisie made a simplistic and crude analysis: “the masses defeated socialism, and capitalism has proven itself superior.” However, not even Stalinism was enough to […]
30 years of the end of the USSR

21 de dez de 2021

Assessing the History of the Former USSR

Assessing the History of the Former USSR
9 December 2021 A special edition published originally in Spanish by the IWL-FI here. The debates amongst international fighters in the working class, particularly about how to confront the crisis of capitalism, are many. After almost two years living with a global pandemic that is far from being under control, we see, once again, that […]
30 years of the end of the USSR

17 de dez de 2021