Theory and analysis

As part of our preparation for the national In Defence of Lenin conference we republish here an article by Darall Cozens from 2007. This month marks 90 years since Lenin returned to Russia from exile. He immediately embarked on the task of convincing not only the mass of workers, but also the Bolshevik leadership, that the tasks of the revolution were socialist, that what was needed was for power to pass to Read more…

This article was originally published in 1974, on the 57th anniversary of the Russian Revolution) in answer to a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists [the youth section of the Labour Party at the time], Frank Tippin, who wrote to Ted Grant posing a series of questions. We republish it here as part of the preparation for the In Defence of Lenin conference. Frank Tippin claimed that Lenin’s New Economic Policy was Read more…

In preparation for the In Defence of Lenin conference, and to commemorate Lenin’s life and ideas, we publish here a video of a walking tour around London – given by Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, as part of the Red October 2015 festival – of the places where Lenin and the Russian Marxists lived, worked, and organised.

  In preparation for the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation, where we’ll be discussing the life and legacy of Lenin, we republish this article from 1970 by Alan Woods. In the last active period of his life, Lenin was chiefly absorbed by the problems of the Soviet economy under the New Economic Policy. In 1921, under the pressure of the millions of peasant small proprietors, the workers’ state had been Read more…