Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Stalinism

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • Tony Cross: Animal Farm revisited

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 30-31] Animal Farm by George Orwell – a 50th anniversary edition. Secker and Warburg, 1995, £14-99. Reviewed by Tony Cross. Farmer Jones is no longer to be found in the Red Lion at Willingdon drowning his sorrows at the expropriation of Manor Farm by his livestock. Expropriations in…

  • Lezli-An Barrett: Land and Freedom

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 29-30] Lezli-An Barrett, director of the film, Business As Usual, takes a critical look at Ken Loach’s Spanish civil war epic. Contemporary Liverpool. An old man, David Carne, suffers a heart attack. En route to the hospital, he dies. Kim, his granddaughter, sorts through his effects and begins…

  • Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky

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    [Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…

  • Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia

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    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…

  • Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil

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    [Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 42-49] The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution, argues Elizabeth Clarke. Workers‘ patience with the deprivations of the mismanaged planned economy have been exhausted The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution. The…

  • Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union

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    [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…

  • China

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    | want to ask about workers’ states. Two questions about China. The first question: I read your material. I read that at your last world congress that the nature of the Chinese state is not so definite, the process is not finished, and your Swedish section, or a majority of your Swedish section, supports the…

  • The World Situation

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    Like the majority of Marxists internationally you say there was a change in economics in the mid-1970s. Before, we had a very long period of development of capitalism worldwide, not only in the advanced countries but also the beginning of national liberation movements. But after the mid-1970s a new cycle of capitalism began. The world…