Identity politics led to the attack on transgender rights by Second Wave feminists but how did this happen?
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Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
Stalinism – how the USSR became a bureaucratic nightmare
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
Communism and Islam – the Bolsheviks attempt an alliance
Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last
Eric Hobsbawm – historian and Marxist pessimist
Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974
The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy
1979 Iran revolution – a Marxist perspective
The Iran revolution in 1979 was taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs which most on the Left saw as a reactionary development
The Iranian revolution – a Marxist perspective
1979 saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini – an event that split the Left inside the country
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