Schlagwort: Soviet Union
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Lynn Walsh: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Ogaden – Only International Perspectives can resolve National Antagonisms
[Militant No. 396, 10th March 1978, p. 8-9] There is turmoil in Ethiopia, with the regime of the Dergue fighting a bitter war on two fronts. Last week’s article explained the momentous events in Ethiopia since the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974. Analysing the social character of the new regime, it explained that, on…
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Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…
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Militant: Introduction (to the pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“)
[pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 1] Since Gorbachev’s first statements about glasnost in 1986, and his speech at the February 1987 Communist Party congress, the ruling bureaucracy in the Soviet Union has been in turmoil. More significantly, the divisions and splits at the top have been the signal for the biggest movement of the working…
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Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?
[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…
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Peter Taaffe: Splits at the Top, Upheavals from Below
[20 May 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 10-17] “Revolution starts from the top”, said Marx. Sensing an impending revolt by the working class, the summits of society begin to split into different camps, one looking for reforms to stave off the deluge, while another looks towards increasing repression. Marx was speaking about differences within…
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Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev’s National Dilemma
[25 March 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 19-29] The mighty events in Armenia just a few weeks ago have shaken the Stalinist regime represented by Gorbachev to its foundations. Never before, at least in its own ‘backyard’, has the bureaucratic elite which dominates Russian society faced a challenge on such a scale. A mounting…
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Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev and the Left
[Militant International Review, No 38, Autumn 1988, p. 7-14] Peter Taaffe, Editor of the Militant, examines the response of the left of the British labour movement to the tumultuous events unfolding in the USSR and Eastern Europe. The coming to power of Gorbachev over three years ago was undoubtedly a momentous event in the evolution…
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Lynn Walsh: Poland and Hungary Returning to capitalism?
[Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, p. 16-27] Lynn Walsh considers whether it is possible or even likely that Poland and Hungary could revert to the orbit of capitalism. There are many conditional factors involved. The political revolution has begun. The earthshaking movement of the Vorkuta, Siberian and Ukrainian miners during 1989 has rocked…
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Leon Trotsky: What are the Tasks of the ‘Peasant Newspaper’?1
[Published on 17 November 1924 in ,Крестьянская Газета‘ [Krest’yanskaya Gazeta, Peasant Newspaper] No. 51. My own translation of the Russian reprint, published in Сочинения. Том 21. Москва-Ленинград, 1927. Проблемы культуры. Культура переходного периода {Sochineniya, Tom 21, Moskva-Leningrad, 1927. Problemy kul’tury. Kul’tura perekhodnogo perioda, Works, Volume 21, Moscow-Leningrad 1927. Problems of culture. Culture of the transition…
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Peter Taaffe: From bureaucrat to dissident
[Militant International Review, No 28, January 1985, p. 9-15] Peter Taaffe analyses the recently published memoirs of Pyotor Grigorenko. The figure of Grigorenko is familiar to those who followed the so-called „dissident“ movement in Russia in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Because of his determined and heroic opposition to Stalinism he was the only Red…