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The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism

Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League INTRODUCTION In his paper entitled ‘THE WPK’S STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM’, Comrade Dermot Hudson expresses agreement with a reported statement by Nina Andreyeva: “As the Russian communist leader Dr. Nina Andreyeva remarked at the Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea in 1995…” (Dermot Hudson: ‘The WPK’s Struggle against Modern Revisionism’; p. 1). The statement concerned was to the effect that the critique of modern revisionism made by the Workers’ Party of Korea was ” … more throroughgoing and mature … ” (Nina Andreyeva: Statement at Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea’ (1995), cited…

The Case of Sultan-Galiyev

This article was published by Alliance (Marxist-Leninist) as part of the publication Alliance, issue #51, “Pan-Arabic or Pan-Islamic ‘Socialism.’” By Comrade Bland of the Communist League (UK); was written for the Marxist-Leninist Bureau Report no 3; and presented to the Stalin Society (circa 1994) Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau Report No. 3, dated 1995 MIR-SAID SULTAN-GALIYEV* was a Volga Tatar who was born in a village in Bashkiria in 1880. He studied first at the village mekteb (Muslim primary school), and then at the teacher’s training college of Kazan. He returned to his native village as a teacher, and then went to…

The “Doctor’s Case” and the Death of Stalin

An extended annotated version of a report presented to the Stalin Society in London in October 1991, by Bill Bland, for the Communist League (UK) INTRODUCTION By Alliance Marxist-Leninist There have been many requests recently to Alliance for a web-edition of this document. Comrade Bland often neglected his own writings, even forgetting that he may have researched any topic. Although this article was not printed as an official document of the Communist League (CL), it was a critical part of the corpus of work that Bland performed as the leader of the CL. Against many others, Bland defended the role of…

Statements of Principles

What breakthroughs are at the core of Marxism-Leninism? 1) That the transition from capitalism to socialism requires the revolutionary overthrow of the exploiting classes and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. 2) That the transition between capitalism to socialism and from socialism to communism can only be brought about under the dictatorship of the proletariat. 3) That the dictatorship of the proletariat shall be under the leadership of a vanguard party made of representatives of the working class. 4) That the socialist period must take the form of a centralized state-planned economy to replace profit motive. 5) That…

On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View

In response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack prompting the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction The history of the Palestinian liberation movement is very convoluted and long. Furthermore the many tomes that have been published on it over the years do not make for an easy summary. But perhaps at bottom, the history of the theft of Palestinian land is not very complicated, as Finkelstein makes clear: “Looking back after two decades of study and reflection, I am struck most by how uncomplicated the Israel-Palestine conflict is. There is no…

What have the House Select Committee’s Hearings on the Trump-led riots at the Capitol revealed?

What have the House Select Committee’s Hearings on the Trump led riots at the Capitol revealed? An update on the Trump mob assault invasion of the Capitol; January 6 2021 Introduction: On the January 6th 2021 an attempt was made by the electorally beaten, then President Trump – to overturn the election results favouring Biden, by assembling a mob to storm the Capitol. This, and Trump’s stalling and repeated claims of ‘stolen elections’ has been subject to a slow drip of investigations aimed at him. These reached a summit at the recent series of hearings at the Congress has unveiled…

Post Second World War German Literature: Trümmerliteratur (rubble literature) or der Stunde Null (hour zero) or Heimkehrerliteratur (or home coming) literature

Written by Hari Kumar, May 2022; published July 2022  A review of “Draussen vor der Tur” by Wolfgang Borchert;                                 viewed May 2022 at ‘Berliner Ensemble’ Berlin Download this article as a PDF We are facing a driving current move towards a new inter-imperialist war. Again- it might be said. But not as it was in WW2 where one protagonist was a socialist state under fierce attack. Today is more akin to WW1. Naturally given the increase in capital development over some 100 years, it is at a higher degree of intensified inter-imperialist competition. The Ukraine war is only the…

Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”

Note: The text below is an excerpt. Download the entire document as a 30+ page PDF file via this link. Additionally, the article below includes a reference to W.B. Bland’s review of Molotov’s memoir, which we have reproduced in its entirety via this link. Book Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”; Ed. Svitlana M, Erdogan A; np; 2022 – Hereafter “Letter”; 372 pages Hari Kumar: June 5, 2022  As pdf found on web at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/05/letter-from-v-m-molotov-to-central.html To avert any dismantling of any of our future socialist constructions, we…

Book Review: Molotov’s Memoirs (W.B. Bland)

Below, we reproduce William Bland’s review of Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics, as it appeared in the October 1993 issue of COMpass (issue 108). A PDF of the work as it was originally published is available at the Marxists Internet Archive via this link. -ML Currents Today, June 2022 Albert Resis (Ed.): ‘MOLOTOV REMEMBERS: INSIDE KREMLIN POLITICS’; Chicago; 1993. Vyacheslav Molotov was Stalin’s closest comrade-in-arms, and held for many years very important positions in the Soviet Union. One might have hoped, therefore, that his memoirs would have contained valuable information on the way in which revisionists managed to wreck socialism…

An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings”

Presented below is an excerpt; download the entire article as a PDF via this link. An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings” by Marxist-Leninist Currents Today Introduction We give below an open response to some of the main points of an article by Erdogan A with MLG, titled “Imperialism – in Ukraine Particular”. This can be found at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/03/imperialism-in-ukraine-particular.html (March 2, 2022). The viewpoint of ‘Marxist-Leninist Currents Today’ was put in two articles, written before the open war. However they anticipated a possible – perhaps even likely – Russian invasion of Ukraine, which…