Ulyanovsk
A review of Lars Lih's Lenin
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Albania’s Resistance Movement Achieved a Unique Victory in the Struggle Against Nazism
Seventy-nine years ago today, Albania became the only country to free itself from Nazi occupation without any help from the Allied armies. A communist-led partisan movement spearheaded the drive for national liberation in one of Europe’s poorest states.
Joe Biden, the Hawk
If you’re looking for a president with a track record of boosting foreign intervention, expanding the surveillance state, and steadfastly backing Israel despite its war crimes, Joe Biden is your guy.
True Finns, False Hopes
The Finns rose to become one of Europe’s most prominent right-populist parties. Then they joined government.
The Day That Shook the World
The story of November 7, 1917 — the day the Bolsheviks changed world history.
The Real Winston Churchill
Churchill was no hero — he was a vile racist fanatical about violence and fiercely supportive of imperialism.
Russiagate Can’t End Well for the Left
Liberals are using Russiagate to gin up nationalist fervor and anti-Russian paranoia. It'll only backfire.
Colonial Nostalgia Continues to Define France’s Relationship to Africa
At home, French politicians mainstream far-right conspiracies about the replacement of whites by African immigrants. Abroad, they continue to intervene militarily and economically in the continent. Both are signs of a nation unwilling to accept its decline.
No, Studying Marx Is Not Elitist
Reading Marxist theory isn’t just for highfalutin academics — just ask the millions of workers whose ideas about the role they could play in changing the world were transformed by both study and practice.
The Revolutionary Democracy of 1917
Those who draw a straight line from the October Revolution to Stalinism invariably ignore the civil war that came in between.
The Story of the February Revolution
Russian workers went on strike on International Women's Day 1917. They ended up toppling tsarism.
The “Smart Imperialism” Crowd
A new diplomatic memoir makes a "national interest" case for warmer relations with Cuba.
In Belarus, Labor Is Struggling to Find Its Voice
Since Belarus’s disputed election, both President Alexander Lukashenko and the liberal opposition have recognized the importance of strike actions in deciding what happens next. But while there have been protests across Belarus’s major workplaces, a long-shackled labor movement faces an uphill struggle to advance a political agenda of its own.
Socialism in an Age of Reaction
Noam Chomsky on progressive reform, Fidel Castro, and building resistance under Donald Trump.
Erdoğan and His Opponents
Erdoğan’s would-be dictatorship is anything but stable. Here's a look at the contradictions and fractures roiling Turkish society.
The New Communists
It’s 2017. Time to stop worrying about the questions of 1917.
The Romanian Protests
Why have hundreds of thousands of Romanians taken to the streets this month against a nominally center-left government?
What Happened in Aleppo?
Democratic forces have always been the main target of the Assad regime.
The Glory Days Are Over
Trump’s victory signals a deep crisis of neoliberalism.
Karl Kautsky Was Once a Revolutionary
Lenin’s famous denunciation of Karl Kautsky as a “renegade” has long discouraged Marxists from actually engaging with the German-Austrian socialist’s writings. But if the Bolshevik leader sharply criticized Kautsky’s retreats, this was also because of his great admiration for his earlier work — a revolutionary Marxism that lay decisive stress on the battle for democracy.