On 4th June 1989, the mass movement of students and workers in Tiananmen Square that had shaken the Chinese regime was repressed into submission. Daniel Morley looks at the lessons of these titanic events.

In this video from the 2018 Revolution Festival, Francesco Merli of In Defence of Marxism (www.marxist.com) discusses the events and lessons of the 1968 Prague Spring – a revolt against the Stalinist bureaucracy that was put down by Moscow.

With his latest film, the Death of Stalin, British director and comic writer Armando Iannucci continues with his recurring motif of the cynicism and self-interest of the professional political class. This time, however, the incompetent politicians being lambasted are not those of the Western establishment, but of the Stalinist bureaucracy.