Russian Revolutionary Movement

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 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 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 Read more…

  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 Read more…

by Mordecai Levi, Cambridge Marxists What is now my principal task? To reveal the truth.” – Leon Trotsky speaking in Mexico, January 30th 1937. The events of October 1917 are the greatest in all of human history. For the first time since 1871 – when the Paris Commune was put Read more…

  (A letter to the Kiev comrades. From Pravda, May 31, 1923. Translated for this volume from Collected Works, Vol. 2 1, by Marilyn Vogt. From: Problems of Every Day Life by Leon Trotsky.) Dear Comrades: You complain that you have not been able to read even one-tenth of the Read more…

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 forced to retreat from the path of Socialist planning Read more…

  The existence of nations, nation states, and national consciousness, is a characteristic feature of the capitalist epoch. Before the advent of capitalism, there was no genuine national consciousness in the modern sense. Feudal society was dominated by particularism, where peoples identified themselves as members of villages, towns, localities, regions, Read more…

On Thursday 10th October the Marxist Student Federation hosted a fiery debate between Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com, and Orlando Figes, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London on the topic of ‘The Russian Revolution: Triumph or Tragedy? Alan Woods Addressing a packed hall of 180 people, Woods opened Read more…