Schlagwort: Stalinism
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Peter Taaffe: Andropov and after …
[Militant International Review, No 25, February 1984, p. 11-19] Just before he died Moscow wags had already passed verdict on Andropov’s brief fifteen months in power. A variation on an old joke read as follows: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov are travelling on a red train. The train breaks down. “Fix it” orders Stalin. They…
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Peter Taaffe: Russia: Reform or Political Revolution?
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 12-18] Review article of Roy Medvedev’s ‘On Socialist Democracy’ published by McMillan Roy Medvedev’s book, “‘On Socialist Democracy”, was first published in Britain in 1975. It is an analysis of the situation which Russia finds itself in 60 years after the Russian Revolution. Although most of the…
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Lynn Walsh: Deng’s Rise to Power
[Published in Militant, 17 October 1986, abbreviated reprint in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 27] The Cultural Revolution began essentially as a purge launched by Mao against top leaders like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and the group which dominated the apparatus at that time. They had excluded Mao from direct…
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Peter Taaffe: The Cultural Revolution
[Published in Militant, February 1967, Reprinted in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 24-26] Within the last month events within China have taken a dramatic turn. Reports of fierce clashes between forces for and against Mao Zedong, strikes, allegations of ‘sabotage’ etc, have been splashed across the pages of the capitalist…
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Peter Taaffe: The 1944-9 Revolution
[Edited transcript of a speech given by Peter Taaffe at a Marxist education school in 1980, printed in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 13-20] It is impossible to understand the Chinese Revolution of 1944-49 without charting, at least in broad outline, the events which followed the defeat of the revolution…
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Peter Taaffe: China
[This pamphlet reproduces the three articles on China published in ‘Militant’ in July 1979. Some minor alterations and corrections have been added by the author. Printed August 1979] Contents The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution Workers Fight Bureaucratic Stranglehold The Foreign Policy of the Bureaucracy The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution There has been an…
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Ted Grant: Marxism against Sectarianism
[June 1981, Reprinted in Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Summer 1985. It was wrong to label women’s liberation, black liberation or gay liberation as middle class or liberal issues. Not the issues, but the approach of several groups is middle class or liberal] In his document submitted to the International Forum, comrade GM raises a number…
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Resolution of the R.C.P. Conference on the Soviet Union
[Workers International News, Vol. 6, No. 9, p. 267-269] Conference reaffirms the basic programmatic conceptions of the Fourth International as they relate to the Soviet Union, to the dual nature of the system of society in the USSR as a transitional regime between capitalism and socialism and which therefore has both capitalist and socialist forces…
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Bill Hunter: Stalinism in Czechoslovakia
[Workers International News, Vol. 7, No. 5, June 1948, p. 1-10] The recent events in Czechoslovakia had a profound effect both on the international relationships between the Great Powers and on the working class movement. An analysis of the events are important for an understanding of the role of the Stalinist Parties. Even a cursory…