James Connolly, the socialist revolutionary and workers’ leader executed after the 1916 Easter Rising, is widely commemorated across the Republic of Ireland with statues, a major railway station, a military barracks, and streets and other […]
The month marked the 85th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination on 21st of August 1940. Trotsky, alongside Lenin, was a central figure in the October 1917 Russian Revolution. After Stalin’s counterrevolution destroyed the last vestiges […]
The last two years in Britain and internationally have seen a big increase in struggle, and 2024 will be no different. There has been the historic strike wave in response to the cost-of-living crisis and […]
Vladimir Lenin led the Russian revolution alongside Leon Trotsky in 1917. Their political understanding and party-building methods ensured the overthrow of capitalism and landlordism. Still today, they are the two historical figures most hated and […]
Below we republish a new introduction to Lenin’s pamphlet What is to be Done? The introduction and Lenin’s work were published by the publishing house of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI in Germany). socialistworld.net Lenin’s writings […]
In January 1917, the world was in flames amid the barbarism of the first capitalist world war. Yet within months, the Russian revolutionary socialist Vladimir Lenin was the elected head of the first democratic workers’ […]
We republish below a speech and article by Lenin on the historic role of Marx and Engels and a summary of their revolutionary ideas. socialistworld.net Lenin’s Speech at unveiling of a monument to Marx and […]
Lenin’s State and Revolution was written during the revolutionary upheavals that were taking place in Russia in 1917. By necessity, it had to be cut short, as Lenin explains at the end of the book, because of […]
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov). Along with Leon Trotsky and the Bolshevik party, Lenin (1870–1924) led the 1917 October socialist revolution that “shook the world” and changed […]
21 August marks the anniversary of the death, in 1940, of the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky after being attacked the previous day by a Stalinist agent. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the […]
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