chinaworker.info commemorates 1925-27: This year we are commemorating 100 years since the Second Chinese Revolution 1925-27. This was one of the most remarkable and significant waves of mass struggle ever seen. In the year 1925 the working class of S...
US-backed coup in 1965 unleashes one of 20th Century’s biggest mass killings
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...
Our comrades need to study these crucial lessons: The Russian Revolution. Trotsky’s analysis and struggle against Stalinism. The strengthening of Stalinism in the post-1945 era. And its collapse 35 years ago. This is a vital part of the theoretical foundation the ISA and next generation Marxists must build our movement upon.
10 December 1930
As part of our series of short archive posts we reproduce this letter by Leon Trotsky to Max Shachtman clarifying his stance over the so-called tactic whereby China’s unconsolidated fledgling Communist Party (CCP) was dissolved into...
The ideas of Leon Trotsky, and Trotskyism, have been much maligned and distorted through history. But who was Leon Trotsky, what is Trotskyism, and what is the relevance for the struggles we face today in the 2020s?
Paul Hunt, Socialist Alternative ...
Historic document from International Socialist Alternative (formerly known as the Committee for a Workers’ International) now available in Chinese
The Collapse of Stalinism is an important historical document of ISA (formerly CWI) published in June ...
The Spanish Revolution of 1931–1939 is one of the greatest events in working-class history in the twentieth century. Heroic Spanish workers rose up against an attempted coup in 1936 by the army, commanded by the reactionary fascist General Francisco ...
A half century has passed since US President Richard Nixon’s ground-breaking visit to China on 21 February 1972
chinaworker.info reporters
Nixon was the first American president ever to visit China and no formal relations had existed between the two ...
In August 1980, Poland’s Stalinist regime was rocked by a massive strike wave which swept across the country
Paul Newberry, Socialist Alternative (ISA in Poland)
Arguably, Poland came closest to a successful workers’ revolt against Stalini...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the December 1970 workers’ protests against Poland’s Stalinist regime and the bloody massacre known as “Black Thursday”.
Paul Newberry, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA Poland)
This month marks the 50th anniv...
