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In part four of our Hungarian Revolution series, Tasha Wilson explains how the Stalinist bureaucracy of the USSR was able to manoeuvre its way into dominating Eastern Europe, by balancing between the imperialists, the bourgeoisie, and the working class.
For the third instalment of our 12-part series marking the 70-year anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, Stan Laight analyses the achievements and shortcomings of the Soviet economy, and its distorted, top-down expansion into Eastern Europe.
As part of our fortnight series commemorating the Hungarian Revolution, we republish Peter Fryer’s retrospective, written in 1957. Fryer was an eyewitness, and the CPGB’s correspondent. He answers the lies and slanders thrown against Hungarian revolutionaries.
Here we republish an extract from the new introduction to Peter Fryer’s ‘Hungarian Tragedy’, by General Secretary of the RCP, Ben Gliniecki. This begins our series of articles to commemorate the Hungarian people’s noble and valiant struggle for genuine socialism.
90 years ago, the workers and youth of Leeds, led by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), organised a victorious battle against Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts. Battered, bruised, and humiliated, Mosley’s forces never dared to march in Leeds again.
News of the death of comrade Jim Brookshaw came as a cruel blow to all who knew him. Here, Alan Woods, Jim’s close friend and comrade, pays tribute to this lifelong class fighter and reflects on Jim’s journey from Stalinism to genuine Marxism.
90 years on, the Battle of Cable Street should be studied by everyone who wants to fight the far right today. But one part of the story is often missed: not everyone on the left wanted to fight the fascists. Have today’s leaders learned from yesterday’s cowardice?
For over 80 years, an entire industry distorted the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. While Trump renews the charge against communism, the republication of Alan Woods and Ted Grant’s ‘Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For’ could not have come at a better time.
Around 70 years ago, the Mau Mau Uprising was under way. To suppress this movement and hold back the tide of Kenyan independence, the British imperialists committed unimaginable atrocities. These crimes were hidden for decades and, to this day, the struggle against imperialism in Kenya continues.
War criminal and careerist Suella Braverman recently said that Britain’s ‘former colonies should pay the British back’ for the good that the Empire did. Meanwhile, these countries continue to be bled dry by imperialism.
Despite being ruled by a so-called ‘Communist’ Party, modern China is one of the world’s foremost capitalist powers. In this episode, Tom Crozier explains how this process unfolded, from the 1949 Chinese Revolution to today.
In the 19th Century, British imperialists waged the Opium Wars and forcibly dragged the Chinese state into the world market. This began what is known in China as its ‘century of humiliation’, with British capitalism stoking the world’s first opiate epidemic to bleed the country dry.