The workers have done it at last!

“The workers have done it at last.” “It wouldn’t have mattered where this revolution had taken place, Timbuctoo or Costa Continue reading →

1917-2017 : The Work of the Public Health Authorities in Soviet Russia

Extract from speech of Comrade N. A. Semashko, Commissar for Health of the R.S.F.S.R., at a conference of the Workers’ Continue reading →

NATO no!

by Robert Griffiths The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was formed in 1949 on the basis of a pack of Continue reading →

In praise of Guy Burgess

Guy Burgess was one of that layer of talented upper class youth who, understanding that the class to which they Continue reading →

Six out of ten Russian see communism as a good system

About 60 percent of Russians believe there were more positive than negative aspects to life in the former Soviet Union, Continue reading →

Remarks attrributed to the new President of China

  “Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their Continue reading →

The day the nazis lost

by Mark Perryman February 2 1943 is the date of the Red Army victory at Stalingrad. From the moment of Continue reading →

A defence of Stalinist art policy

by Mark Jones Critics of Stalinist policy towards the arts have difficulty admitting what is actually obvious: that despite the Continue reading →