By Wilson Honório da Silva, PSTU-BrazilPetrograd, early in the morning of October 26, 1917. "Lenin, standing (…), let his small shining eyes roam over all those present, while he...
This article was published on the IWL's theoretical magazine Marxism Alive n. 16 in 2007, as part of the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
In military...
November 7 (October 25 according to the old Russian calendar) is the 97th anniversary of the October Revolution that would create the first workers'...
The 1871 Franco-Prussian War was the midwife for the first proletarian revolution.
The Paris Commune and its defeat sparked off the decadence of the First...
A Marxist critique of the theory of Deflected Permanent Revolution
2) Cliff’s “Deflected Permanent Revolution”: A Marxist Critical Appraisal
Let’s go now to Cliff’s contributions on the...
A Marxist critique of the theory of Deflected Permanent Revolution
Re-opening a dialogue
In 1963, Tony Cliff and the IST published a very short essay “Deflected...
Class struggle involves periods of calm and periods of turbulence, periods of relative peace and periods of insurrection. Those who admit the principle of...
During World War 1, while the parties of the Second International were all busy “defending their fatherland”, Lenin and the Bolsheviks were trying to...
Marx studied capitalism thoroughly but he did not live to see its transformation into imperialism. Lenin’s greatest contribution to Marxist theory is the research...
You can read part 1 of this article by clicking the following link: The Permanent Revolution - Part1
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To mark the 71st anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s...
This article was published on the 70th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. We are publishing it again because the Arab revolution, the European resistance and struggles, and...
