Great October Socialist Revolution the first victorious socialist revolution in history, accomplished in 1917 by the Russian working class in alliance with the poor peasantry under the leadership of the Communist Party (formerly, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party [Bolshevik]), headed by Lenin. The name “October” comes from the date October 25 (November 7, newContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on the Great October Socialist Revolution”
Category Archives: Russian Imperialism
Russia is an Imperialist Country
Original article on massproletariat.info The present world situation is defined by a system of capitalist-imperialist relations, and the principal contradiction on the global scale is between imperialist states and oppressed peoples. In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin put forward a Marxist analysis of the nature of capitalist-imperialism, and it is to this document that we shallContinue reading “Russia is an Imperialist Country”
ICMLPO May Day Statement
FOR A MAY DAY OF UNITY AND STRUGGLE AGAINST NATIONALISM, RACISM, FASCISM AND THE POLICY OF WAR LET’S RAISE THE FLAG OF THE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM! Workers, labourers, young people, women and oppressed people of all countries! The long period of poor economic growth and the increasing political instability bring out more sharply the contradictions thatContinue reading “ICMLPO May Day Statement”
100th Anniversary of the February Bourgeois-democratic Revolution in Russia
Draft Theses, March 4 (17), 1917 Information reaching Zurich from Russia at this moment, March 17, 1917 [1], is so scanty, and events in our country are developing so rapidly, that any judgement of the situation must of needs be very cautious. Yesterday’s dispatches indicated that the tsar had already abdicated and that the new, Octobrist-Cadet government [2] hadContinue reading “100th Anniversary of the February Bourgeois-democratic Revolution in Russia”
ICMLPO: Stop the warmongers! – The beating of war drum is getting louder and louder
The beating of war drum is getting louder and louder. NATO and US allies on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other, are steadfastly heading toward war. The threats of war are being expressed quite blatantly. What used to be “buffer zones”, have become militarized. The armies and navies of the imperialistContinue reading “ICMLPO: Stop the warmongers! – The beating of war drum is getting louder and louder”
ICMLPO: Communique
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (ICMLPO) has successfully concluded its 22rdPlenary, held in Denmark in October 2016. It was characterized by a strong political and ideological unity and a revolutionary and optimistic spirit, recording many advances in the work of the parties and organisations in spite of the relentless anti-communist attacks fromContinue reading “ICMLPO: Communique”
Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan): Solidarity with Syria
The English Facebook page of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) has interviewed the comrade in charge of the Office of Foreign Relations of the Party, Comrade Jaafar Paknia, on the situation in Syria. The following is the text of the interview. Comrade Jaafar, thank you for the time you are spending with usContinue reading “Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan): Solidarity with Syria”
The Deindustrialisation of Contemporary Russia
Tahir Asghar The USSR, over the period of its tumultuous history, had built up a massive industrial, R&D and scientific potential so as to not only build a socialist society and defend it but also to secure its economic independence and growth and the full development of intellectual and material capacities of its population. NotContinue reading “The Deindustrialisation of Contemporary Russia”
The Greek Debt Crisis: A Misnomer for the European Imperialist Crisis
August 2015 Hari Kumar 1. An Introduction to Greece 2. The Truman Doctrine – Greece becomes dependent upon the USA after the Second World War 3. The Greek Junta – Greece by now fully a client state of the USA 4. Capitalist Class of Greece Moves to “Democracy” and Europe 5. The USA Makes ItsContinue reading “The Greek Debt Crisis: A Misnomer for the European Imperialist Crisis”
In Ukraine War, Kremlin Leaves No Fingerprints
DONETSK, Ukraine — Not long ago, Alexander Borodai, a fast-talking Muscovite with a stylish goatee, worked as a consultant for an investment fund in Moscow. Today he is prime minister of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, zipping around town in a black S.U.V. with tinted windows and armed guards and commanding what he says areContinue reading “In Ukraine War, Kremlin Leaves No Fingerprints”
Lugansk People’s Republic authorities ban strikes, International Workers’ Day marches, and forbid international anti-fascist forum
Open letter to The General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions Georgios Mavrikos General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions Georgios Mavrikos Being the communists of Lugansk region we apply to you as to worldfamous avowed champion of communist ideals. We are surprised and deeply revolted from the fact that the mainContinue reading “Lugansk People’s Republic authorities ban strikes, International Workers’ Day marches, and forbid international anti-fascist forum”
Putin’s Western Allies
Why Europe’s Far Right Is on the Kremlin’s Side By Mitchell A. Orenstein Given that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stated reasons for invading Crimea was to prevent “Nazis” from coming to power in Ukraine, it is perhaps surprising that his regime is growing closer by the month to extreme right-wing parties across Europe.Continue reading “Putin’s Western Allies”
‘Novorossiya’s’ ‘Leftist’ Friends
The frenzied world-wide front is expanding Mercy to no one, no one, no one! Stanza from 1989 Russian anarchists’ song Vintovka – eto prazdnik (The Rifle is a Holiday) By the Russian punk bank Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) The annexation of Crimea, the “Novorossiya” project, and the fight against the “Kyiv junta” are not supportedContinue reading “‘Novorossiya’s’ ‘Leftist’ Friends”
Alliance Marxist-Leninist: Chechnya, Oil and the Divided Russian Capitalist Class
INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION. 4 1. THE WAR ITSELF – MUTINY OF THE GENERALS 5 2. WHAT LIES BEHIND THIS WAR ? THE OIL BACKGROUND 8 3.VIEW OF STALIN VERSUS KHRUSHCHEV AND VOSNOSENSKY UPON INDUSTRY 9 4. DIVISIONS INSIDE THE USSR CAPITALIST CLASS SINCE STALIN 15 5. THE ERA OF GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN 21 6. THEContinue reading “Alliance Marxist-Leninist: Chechnya, Oil and the Divided Russian Capitalist Class”
Labour Party (EMEP): P5 + 1 and Iran Framework Agreement. A Step in Redrawing of the Map
The talks on Iranian Nuclear programme, between Iran and the P5 +1 (US, Russia, England, France, China and Germany) concluded on 2 April with a ‘framework agreement’. Sides have also agreed on the final agreement to be signed on 30 July 2015. According to the agreement; Iran will reduce the number of centrifuges used inContinue reading “Labour Party (EMEP): P5 + 1 and Iran Framework Agreement. A Step in Redrawing of the Map”
The Espresso Stalinist 