By Yorgos Mitralias The subject of this article is not Putin the warmonger, nor Putin the invader of Ukraine. The subject of this article is Putin, the anti-democrat, the reactionary and the liberticide with increasingly fascist practices. So, after presenting the first pillar of the Brown International in gestation in the person of Israeli genocidaire Bibi Netanyahu, and awaiting the third … [Read more...]
With the help of the Brown International of Putin, Trump and their far-right friends
Irrationality and mass paranoia invade our societies by Yorgos Mitralias “But why are they attacking us? What have we done to them to make them hate us and bomb us like this?”. These are surprising and thought-provoking questions from ordinary Russians living in the Kursk region, asked by reporters sent to cover the advance of Ukrainian troops into this Russian territory. And they are all … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – RUSSIA: LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION
by Roger Silverman. In Russia, literature and revolution are inextricably intertwined. There is a proud and unbroken Russian tradition of defiance of successive autocratic regimes by artists and writers. It happened under the Tsars; it happened under the tyranny of Stalin and his successors; and it happens still today under the Putin dictatorship. There is no country with a richer … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – THE BOLSHEVIKS AND PARLIAMENT
by Roger Silverman. We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a coalition with the left … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – WHAT WAS STALINISM?
by Roger Silverman. Socialists today still find themselves under the dark shadow that Stalinism has cast over the history of the twentieth century. It is more than ten years since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Russia and Eastern Europe – overthrown in many cases by workers’ uprisings. These were hideous, corrupt, vicious regimes, and workers rightly celebrated their downfall as … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 100 YEARS ON
by Roger Silverman - 7th November 2017. We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a … [Read more...]
The Bolsheviks and Parliament
by ROGER SILVERMAN We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a coalition with the left … [Read more...]
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA - YouTube Last Saturday, Russia was shaken by the armed mutiny of 25,000 mercenary soldiers led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the private militia the Wagner Group. Having captured the city of Rostov-on-Don, occupied military installations in Voronezh, and marched to within 200 kilometres of Moscow, they abruptly turned back. How did a maverick private army accumulate … [Read more...]
The disastrous state of the Russian army, a faithful reflection of the perversions of the dying Putinism
by Yorgos Mitralias Why is Putin now "massively" bombing Ukrainian cities? Why is he sending his missiles against their infrastructures and populations? Why is he massacring civilians? Simply because he has already lost the war! Because his army can't break the resistance of the Ukrainians. Or rather, because his army is retreating, accumulating defeats, demoralized and in … [Read more...]
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE – 20 MAR 22
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE - 20 MAR 22 - YouTube Discussion introduced by Michael Roberts (Author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism and of the blog The Next Recession). The economic war between the US-led NATO group and Russia is hotting up alongside the real war in Ukraine itself. In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the US … [Read more...]