How did communism collapse in East Germany at the end of the 1980s? For anybody growing up in the post-war era, the division of Germany into capitalist West Germany and communist East Germany seemed set in stone. But the Soviet-backed… Read More ›
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Bashar Assad – why did some on the Left support him?
Bashar Assad clung to power in Syria after the Arab Spring with help from Russia and from western useful idiots on social media
The Falkands War: the Left’s messy response
The Falklands War presented a dilemma for the political Left in the UK in 1982 including those on the Marxist left
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 