Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte). Born Aug. 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica; died May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena. French statesman and general. First consul of the French Republic (1799–1804); emperor (1804–14 and March-June 1815). Napoleon was the son of Carlo Buonaparte, a Corsican noble and lawyer of modest means. At the ageContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Napoleon Bonaparte”
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CPGB: The People’s Republic of Mongolia
The Mongol question has suddenly become of first-rate world importance. The Mongols, an ancient but little-known people who once ruled the whole of Asia, are now divided between four states. Many of them live in the Soviet Union, citizens of the Buryat-Mongol republic in Siberia or of the Kalmyk Autonomous Region on the lower Volga.Continue reading “CPGB: The People’s Republic of Mongolia”
American Party of Labor (APL): Let Us Build The People’s Movement On International Women’s Day!
“The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women’s rights.” – Enver Hoxha, 1967 Possibly the first example of class stratification and exploitation in human history was the subjugation of women. In primitiveContinue reading “American Party of Labor (APL): Let Us Build The People’s Movement On International Women’s Day!”
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”
Fidel Castro on the Character of the Cuban Revolution
“At any rate, you wish to write that this is a socialist revolution, right? And write it, then… Yes, not only did we destroy a tyrannical system. We also destroyed the philoimperialistic bourgeois state apparatus, the bureaucracy, the police, and a mercenary army. We abolished privileges, annihilated the great landowners, threw out foreign monopolies forContinue reading “Fidel Castro on the Character of the Cuban Revolution”
Thomas Jefferson in Defense of the French Revolution
“In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as any body, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle. ItContinue reading “Thomas Jefferson in Defense of the French Revolution”
Dimitrov to Stalin on the Dissolution of the Polish Communist Party
Dimitrov to Stalin, 28 November 1937, with enclosed draft resolution of the ECCI. Original in Russian. Typewritten with handwritten comments by Stalin. Top secret, [1] Dear Comrade Stalin! We are thinking of passing the attached resolution on the dissolution of the Polish Communist Party in the ECCI Presidium, and then publishing it. After publishing thisContinue reading “Dimitrov to Stalin on the Dissolution of the Polish Communist Party”
Bruce Cumings on the North Korean Economy
“My spirits brightened, however, when former Congressman Stephen Solarz, long interested in Korean affairs, found a ‘brilliant and breathtaking’ study by a CIA analyst and concluded it was for North Korea ‘what the Rosetta Stone was to ancient Egypt’. So rare and privileged was the author’s knowledge that it took him a decade to getContinue reading “Bruce Cumings on the North Korean Economy”
The First May Day Under Nazi Rule
“In 1933 Adolf Hitler, with the full support and assistance of powerful monopoly capitalists, seized power in Germany. On April 24, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment, issued a May Day Manifesto which was carried on the front page of every newspaper in Germany. Addressed ‘to the whole German people,’Continue reading “The First May Day Under Nazi Rule”
Misunderstandings Regarding Proletarian Leadership and the Peasant Question in Marxism
“Present-day thinking on Marx and Engels’s strategy is often muddled by a curious misunderstanding. We tend to visualise a contrast between ‘developed’ countries like Germany, France and England on the one hand and ‘backward’ ones like Russia on the other. But how ‘developed’ were countries like Germany, France and England in 1848 or 1871? OnlyContinue reading “Misunderstandings Regarding Proletarian Leadership and the Peasant Question in Marxism”
Quick Analysis of the Trump Cabinet
Jeff Sessions (Attorney General) – close association of white nationalists and opponent of birthright citizenship, denounced by Coretta Scott King for being racist, lover of the CIA and mass surveillance. Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce) – billionaire monopolist Trump donor who drew criticism for safety failures after an explosion killed 12 workers at a coalContinue reading “Quick Analysis of the Trump Cabinet”
Communist League: The Civil War in Liberia
Compass: Journal of the Communist League No. 87; August 1990 LIBERIA, on the west coast of Africa, has an area of 43,000 square miles (about the size of Iceland) and a population of 2.4 million. It was founded in 1847 by American philantrophic organisations as a colony for liberated black slaves from the United States.Continue reading “Communist League: The Civil War in Liberia”
DPRK: Death of Fidel Castro Ruz Is Great Loss to Korean People
The death of Fidel Castro Ruz, an outstanding leader of the Cuban revolution, is a great loss to not only the Cuban people but also the Korean people fighting on the same front against the imperialists. The Korean people have highly respected Fidel Castro Ruz as a national hero of Cuba, outstanding leader of theContinue reading “DPRK: Death of Fidel Castro Ruz Is Great Loss to Korean People”
Statement of the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) on the death of Fidel Castro
The Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) deeply regrets the death of Fidel Castro and expresses its solidarity with the government and the Cuban people in these difficult and painful moments. Fidel Castro will always be remembered as a leader who dedicated his life to the revolution that transformed the economic and social structures of Cuba,Continue reading “Statement of the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) on the death of Fidel Castro”
Statement by the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) on the death of Fidel Castro
We, the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan), convey condolences to the courageous workers and toilers of Cuba. Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, did not kneel down to the criminal bullying of the U.S. imperialists, the world biggest terrorists. For five decades, Fidel Castro resisted the monster, U.S. imperialism, and became aContinue reading “Statement by the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) on the death of Fidel Castro”
The Espresso Stalinist 