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June 07, 2023

History

The Iraq War: Where Bush Broke Off More Than He Could Chew

On March 20, 2003, a military coalition led by the U.S. invaded Iraq. In a short time, it overthrew the Iraqi political regime of President Saddam Hussein on the...

United Kingdom, France, and Germany: The Working Class Makes Its Voice Heard

The European working class is reacting against the deterioration in its standard of living....

Stalin: Attempting to Resurrect a Political Corpse

March 28, 2023 March 5 marked the 70th anniversary of the death of Stalin, the...

Stalinism and Pan-Africanism – Part V

In previous articles of this series, we discussed the national struggles of colonial and...

Brazil | September 7th: An independence negotiated by the ruling classes

Amid this year’s Independence Bicentennial celebrations, the mainstream media and even some revisionist historians...

Brazil | September 7th: An independence negotiated by the ruling classes

Amid this year’s Independence Bicentennial celebrations, the mainstream media and even some revisionist historians are trying to present a version of Brazilian history that...

Lessons from the ‘80s

No trade unionist who seriously studies the political and industrial scene at the beginning of the 1980s and compares it with today can fail...

Iran, 1979: An interrupted revolution

The Iranian revolution was extraordinary and will pass into history as one of the most important witnessed by humanity. By: Marcos Margarido The early 1970s saw...

The genocide in the Belgian Congo and the struggle for reparation

The genocide carried out by the Belgian king resulted in the death of eight to ten million Congolese. By Cesar Neto Belgium is a small country,...

49 years of the coup in Chile: Some lessons to prevent history from repeating itself!

The 49th anniversary of the 1973 civil-military coup reactivates a pending debate on the most complex period of our recent history. By Paz Ibarra /...

Leon Trotsky: Revolutionary, Marxist, Internationalist

By Esat Erdoğan When Lev Davidovich Bronstein, known as Trotsky, was assassinated in Mexico on August 21, 1940, by Stalin's agent Ramon Mercader, he left...

Trotsky, 82 years later

By Murat Yakın Even if they get hit and fall in every siege, they are adventurous and they never die... Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as...

Gorbachev: the key figure of the capitalist restoration of the former USSR

Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, President of the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died yesterday in Moscow aged 91. By Alexander...

The general strike in theory and practice

A. J. Cook at the 1926 General Strike campaign

Building a new workers' party

In this archive written in 1995 on the need for a mass workers' party, it is possible to exchange Tony Blair’s name for Keir...

Our differences with SCR (IMT) and SCR's differences with Marxism

After the article dedicated to analysing the positions of Marco Rizzo's Communist Party (1), which has been read on our networks by thousands of...

The revolutions in the East and their place in history

The end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s were marked worldwide by enormous revolutionary processes in Eastern Europe. In the course...

Some Thoughts on the Paris Commune

The 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune has given rise to many studies, books, comments and public enthusiasm. Much more than the hundred years...

Paris Commune 150: the Economics

Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune.  The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the...