At the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and United States, in the 1950s, a communist state tried to throw off the Soviet yoke. Workers and students in Hungary began a revolution, hoping that the Kremlin would… Read More ›
Trotsky
Stalinism – how the USSR became a bureaucratic nightmare
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
The woman who killed Trotsky (yes, really!)
Ramon Mercader assassinated the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky but the key role of Ramon’s mother Caridad is often overlooked
Are Brexit and Marxism compatible?
Brexit and Marxism may seem to be incompatible but back in the 1970s, most socialists opposed European unity on a capitalist basis
Trotsky and the horror of the Holocaust
Leon Trotsky could not have anticipated the horror of the Holocaust as he corresponded with Jewish socialists before WWII
Marxism Explained 