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Trotsky’s record on ‘entry’ into the Kuomintang
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...
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Revolutionary theory: What is Trotskyism?
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 ...
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The Collapse of Stalinism (Part 1)
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The Collapse of Stalinism is an important historical document of ISA (formerly CWI) published in June ...
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Revolutionary history: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1931–38
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 ...
China
50 years since Nixon’s pivot to China
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 ...
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Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory
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...
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Poland: 50th anniversary of the workers uprising on the Baltic coast
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...
China
China: repression or “reform”?
The dominant group within the ruling party stand for continued but ‘smarter’ repression.
Here we republish this article which was first published 11 July 2011.
Despite the dictatorship’s triumphalist propaganda about its economic achievements, th...
China
Capitalism and the Chinese state
How was capitalism restored in China?
This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time.
Vincent Kolo
In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...
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Book Review: Revolutionaries they could not break, by Ngo Van
The Stalinists in Indochina learned nothing from the Chinese experience
International Socialist Alternative
Most histories of the struggle against French colonial rule in Vietnam reflect the Stalinist traditions of the Hanoi regime, and ignore or s...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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