Russian revolution
16 December 2018 · Culture, Russian revolution · 1 comment
Trotsky as action hero minus the dragons
A new Russian drama series available on Netflix rehabilitates Leon Trotsky and is extremely sympathetic to him. It also sticks the boot into Stalin. Andy Stowe watched it and claims to have …
20 August 2017 · Fourth international, Russian revolution
On being revolutionaries one hundred years after the Russian Revolution
The 34th International Youth Camp in political solidarity with the Fourth International took place in Otranto, Italy in the last week of July. The camp, under a banner proclaiming "Revolutio…
30 April 2017 · · Reviews, Russian revolution
This bright life will come
Travelling to the British Library's impressive and unmissable Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths exhibition, I read an article on Putin's government's suppression of the Jehovah's Witn…
25 February 2017 · Our History, Russian revolution
October 1917: London book launch
Paul Le Blanc at Housmans Bookshop on 24th February 2017 : http://https://youtu.be/za-HzPlESfI Le Blanc, a long term revolutionary Marxist, author and a Professor of History at LaRoche Colle…
26 January 2017 · Russian revolution
Redeeming the Revolution
Doug Enaa Greene reviews October 1917 – Workers in Power. Authors: Paul Le Blanc, Ernest Mandel, David Mandel, François Vercammen, and contemporary texts by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Leon Trots…