Comment & Analysis
Film review: Goodbye Lenin
Goodbye Lenin is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Month: February 2004
Theory & Marxism
Theory: Lenin – the original dictator?
VLADIMIR LENIN, the main leader of the Russian revolution, made the following insightful observation in mid-1917: “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage […]
Venezuela
Venezuela: Workers struggle against reaction
ON A recent Miami television programme, a group of Venezuelan ex-military officers openly called for a US invasion to overthrow the twice-elected radical, nationalist government of President Hugo Chavez.
Britain
Britain: War crimes and whitewashes
"AS ANY inept DIY bodger could tell you, whitewash, applied carefully and thinly will last years. Too thick and it will flake off in no time." (Letter to The Guardian, 29 January)
Comment & Analysis
world social forum, Mumbai: Mass struggle to overthrow imperialism and capitalism
A socialist world is possible and necessary
Pakistan
Pakistan: General Musharaff’s sacrificial lamb
Government scientist sold nuclear secrets “in the knowledge of the bosses”
Iran
Iran: Massacre of copper plant workers provokes widespread strikes
Armed forces in Iran opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of copper foundry workers and their families on 23 January, killing fifteen and injuring 300.