Bashar Assad clung to power in Syria after the Arab Spring with help from Russia and from western useful idiots on social media

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The Falkands War – and the Marxist 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