Following the victory of the Bolsheviks in October 1917, the imperialists of the world did their utmost to strangle the new workers’ state. John Peterson uncovers the little-known history of US imperialism’s involvement.
“Trotsky said long ago that unification is impossible. Trotsky understood this and from that time on there has been no better Bolshevik.” Vladimir Lenin delivered this statement to the Bolshevik Petrograd Committee.
The greatest advances for women’s liberation were not achieved through individual struggles against systemic oppression but in collective, revolutionary struggle to fundamentally change society.
On March 2, 1921, sailors in Kronstadt took up arms against the young Soviet government. The tale of the short-lived rebellion has been told and retold with little concern for facts and serious analysis.
In 2024, the International Marxist Tendency will celebrate Lenin’s life, legacy, and works with a series of events and publications, foremost among them a brand new biography, In Defence of Lenin, available now to pre-order!
The Communist International was a declaration of war on the whole capitalist world. Under the control of Stalin and Zinoviev, it transformed into its opposite. 80 years ago this month, Stalin dissolved it.