
This week both marks the centenary of the death of Lenin, and sees the launch of The Communist – a new paper produced by the Marxists in Britain. James Kilby ties these threads together, discussing the history of the revolutionary press.

We publish here the editorial from the latest – Lenin themed – issue of our quarterly theoretical magazine, ‘In Defence of Marxism’, in which Rob Sewell discusses the life and ideas of the great revolutionary leader, a century after his death.

Sunday 21 January marks 100 years since the death of history’s greatest revolutionary. Join Alan Woods and Rob Sewell, authors of the upcoming biography ‘In Defence of Lenin’, at the launch of a global campaign to commemorate Lenin’s life and works.