How The Buerocracy Took Power
"We republish the first part of a pamphlet (first released in 1987, during the twilight of the Soviet regime), which serves as an invaluable introduction to the events from the October Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in Russia ‒ from which innumerable lessons can be drawn for the class struggle today."
https://www.bolshevik.info/russia-how-the-bureaucracy-seized-power-part-one-the-russian-working-class-takes-power.htm
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Russia: How the Bureaucracy Seized Power ‒ Part one: The Russian working-class takes power
We republish the first part of a pamphlet (first released in 1987, during the twilight of the Soviet regime), which serves as an invaluable introduction to the events from the October Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in Russia ‒ from which innumerable
“Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.” The judgement of President Donald J. Trump delivered from the heights of Helsinki followed hard on the heels of his first summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin. If anything, it was even more bizarre than his visits to the NATO summit and the United Kingdom a few days ago. And it made even bigger waves.
https://www.marxist.com/trump-meets-putin-what-does-it-mean.htm
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Trump meets Putin: the world turned upside down
“Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.” The judgement of President Donald J. Trump delivered from the heights of Helsinki followed hard on the heels of his first summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin. If anything, it was even more bizarre than his visits to the NATO summit and the United Kingdom a few days ago. And it made even bigger waves.
On 21st January 1924, Vladimir #Lenin died from complications arising from an earlier assassin’s bullet. Ever since then there has been a sustained campaign to slander his name and distort his ideas, ranging from bourgeois historians and apologists to various reformists, liberals and assorted anarchists. Their task has been to discredit Lenin, #Marxism and the Russian #Revolution in the interests of the “democratic” rule of bankers and capitalists.
https://www.bolshevik.info/in-defence-of-lenin.htm
In Defence of Lenin
Ninety years ago, on 21st January 1924, Vladimir Lenin, the great Marxist and leader of the Russian Revolution, died from complications arising from an earlier assassin’s bullet. Ever since then there has been a sustained campaign to slander his name and
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1) #Lenin was a German agent!
2)The October #Revolution was a violent coup
3)Without Lenin, Russia would have become a liberal democracy
4)The #Bolsheviks committed atrocities in the civil war
5)The Romanovs were killed in cold blood
6)Trotsky murdered the Kronstadt sailors
7)Bolshevism inevitably leads to Stalinist dictatorship
8)Communism killed 100 million people
9)The fall of the USSR proves human nature is capitalist
10)Nothing was achieved by the Russian Revolution
Top 10 lies about the Bolshevik Revolution
Alex Grant from the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency debunks the top 10 slanders about the October Revolution, starting with lies one through five.
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The reformists, who controlled the soviets until summer didn't want to quite the war and stopped the Social Revolutionary peasents from taking the land away from the landlords.
Although the revolution was "succsessfull", all the fundamental problems of the population werenÄt solved.
The bolsheviks explained that this problems, peace, land and bread, could only be solved if the working class, namely their democratic organs, the soviets, took power.
"As Polonius noted in Hamlet, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” Or rather, there is a material basis driving the dizzying convergence of attacks on the working class. That basis is the terminal crisis of capitalism, which has generated a perfect storm of horror without end that demonstrates the incompatibility of this system with the continuation of humanity."
https://www.marxist.com/usa-trump-s-madness-and-the-fight-for-independent-working-class-politics.htm
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USA: Trump’s madness and the fight for independent, working-class politics
Calling to mind the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, US President Donald Trump tweets no fewer than six impossible things before breakfast. But what we are living through is not impossible, and it is not a dream. This is the living reality of capitalism a century after it became an absolute fetter on human progress. Trump is merely the personification of this chaos and instability.
"Only a real alternative to the crisis of #capitalism can offer any hope for #British #workers and youth. As the government faced a showdown with its own party, the #labour movement should prepare for a fight of its own: the fight to hurl the #Tories out of power, put #Corbyn in No. 10 and take the #economy out of the hands of the bosses and speculators who profit daily from our suffering.
Down with the crisis-ridden Tories! For a #socialist Labour government!"
#marxism #socialism #uk #brexit
"In truth their apparent paralysis reflects the agonising impasse that grips the Tory Party today. Trapped between the hardline Tory rank-and-file and the ruling class, in whose interests they must govern, leading Brexiteers now face their own dilemma."
https://www.marxist.com/britain-brexiteer-revolt-leaves-government-in-the-balance.htm
Britain: Brexiteer revolt leaves government in the balance
Less than three weeks after she survived an ultimately toothless rebellion by her pro-European MPs, Theresa May has embarked on a collision course with the hard-Brexit-wing of her party, provoking the deepest crisis her government has faced since last year’s General Election.
