Schlagwort: Russian Revolution
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Militant: Iran – Power Rests with the Armed Workers
[Editorial, Militant, No 444, 23 February 1979, p 2] Marxism explains that state power rests on ‚armed bodies of men‘. The correctness of this is shown by the development of the revolution in Iran. The remaining thin threads of the Shah’s power in Iran rested on his army commanders and the rest of the officer…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Lynn Walsh: When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia
[Militant No. 511, 11th July 1980, p. 8] By Lynn Walsh (review of Andrew Rothstein’s ‘When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia: The Consul Who Rebelled’) The Tories in Britain, and the representatives of capitalism internationally, have whipped up a frenzied propaganda campaign against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. But in 1917, when the workers and peasants…