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“The Assassination of Trotsky” by William B. Bland

Published by Hari Kumar on July 19, 2019

Newly added to the library of documents at Marxist-Leninist Curents: “The Assassination of Trotsky” by William B. Bland. This article was published in the February 1994 edition of Compass: Theoretical Journal of the Communist League. This piece features an overview of the events leading up to Trotsky’s death in 1940, as well as a summary of the events that followed. The work is supported by a detailed bibliography and additional notes. Click this link to view and download the 1.75 MB pdf.

Recent Writings of “Revolutionary Democracy” on the British Road to Socialism

Recent Writings of “Revolutionary Democracy” on the British Road to Socialism

Published by Hari Kumar on July 14, 2019

Introduction The overall research programme of the Indian journal – Revolutionary Democracy (RD) – has been valuable to the Marxist-Leninist movement. This research programme can be summarized as unearthing hitherto unpublished articles and letters of Stalin, and of the workers movement. This is an important and major endeavour. Through their relationship with several sources within the former USSR, the editors have brought several new writings to the movement. We focus here upon a recent compilation of documents from the Soviet Archives, and an editorial from Revolutionary Democracy. Both these archival documents and editorial, concern the British Communist Party (CP). The…

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Putin’s Western Allies

Published by Victor Vaughn on April 20, 2015

Why Europe’s Far Right Is on the Kremlin’s Side By Mitchell A. Orenstein Given that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stated reasons for invading Crimea was to prevent “Nazis” from coming to power in Ukraine, it is perhaps surprising that his regime is growing closer by the month to extreme right-wing parties across Europe. But, in both cases, Putin’s motives are not primarily ideological. In Ukraine, he simply wants to grab territory that he believes rightly belongs to him. In the European Union, he hopes that his backing of fringe parties will destabilize his foes and install in Brussels…

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