Russian revolution
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Eighty years since Leon Trotsky’s assassination
Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method.
Lynn Walsh
On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...
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100 Years since the founding of the Communist International
100 years ago, on March 2, 1919, 53 delegates from left and communist parties gathered at a congress in Moscow, with the goal of forming a new international
By Per-Ake Westerlund, member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)
Within six mont...
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June 1917: The Bolsheviks “become a power”
100 years since the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
A century ago this week, 500,000 workers and soldiers marched through the Russian capital Petrograd, with tens of thousands joining marches in Moscow, Kiev and othe...
History
The 1917 ’July days’ – rich in lessons for today
Revolution never develops in a straight line
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London
Between February and October 1917 there were many sharp turns in the situation in Russia. In April, the government coalition of 'socialists' ...
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Hong Kong: Counter-revolution gets a new face
John Lee “elected” Chief Executive to continue in Carrie Lam’s bloody footsteps
The so-called election of Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive ended witho...
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