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16Aug

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Russia

Josef Stalin, hero of the oppressed

By his deeds shall he always be known. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The following text was posted by a Scottish party member on Facebook to commemorate the death of Comrade Josef Stalin, known affectionately to progressive workers everywhere as Uncle Joe. Over the years our party has written extensively on why we esteem Comrade Stalin so highly, and what the significance of his leadership was to the workers of the world. For a brief introduction to those views, see our article commemorating the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution: October 1917: the defining event of our epoch. Tribute to JV Stalin Imagine a leader taking over a country that has just lost a world war, which has just again been invaded by 1...

16Aug

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Russia

Film: The Death of Stalin

It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Last year’s release of the film The Death of Stalin, directed by British comedian and satirist Armando Iannucci, was accompanied by accolades and tributes by some in the bourgeois media who praised it for having bravely taking a pop at the eternal bogeyman, and with it the very notion of dictatorship itself. However, the film also received criticism from many reviewers who felt that the lampooning of such a sombre subject – connected as it is with Stalin’s ‘great terror’ – was in bad taste and belittled that ‘terrible time’ for cheap laughs. The film itself, a pastiche of anti-Sov...

International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

16Aug

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Russia

International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Josef Stalin worked tirelessly in the service of the people from the age of 15 until his death. He is hated and his legacy is feared by the imperialists because he led the working class in building a prosperous and peaceful life without exploitation. The following resolution was passed by a gathering of communist and workers’ parties in Minsk, Belarus on 15 December 2019. ***** Decisive resistance to anti-Stalinism is an ideological condition for the victory of a modern socialist revolution We, representatives of the communist and workers’ parties, gathered in the hero city of Minsk f...

16Aug

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Russia

Glory to the heroes of Stalingrad!

This titantic achievement of the socialist Soviet Union is one the imperialists are incapable of erasing or explaining away. Harpal Brar Subscribe to our channel The war memorial in what was formerly Stalingrad (now known as Volgograd) consists of an avenue of red flags leading up to a huge statue of a victorious Mother Russia with sword in hand. The second of February this year marked the 80th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad, a battle of titanic proportions. Before we deal with this battle, which changed the course of the second world war, some background information as to events leading up to the battle is in order. The Soviet leadership well understood early on that the conditions for war were ripening; that the Versailles treaty that en...

The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

16Aug

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Literature, Russia

The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

What do we mean when we talk about bureaucracy? How did it manifest in the Soviet Union? What was done by Stalin and the Bolsheviks to counteract it? Carlos Rule Subscribe to our channel Contrary to the myths perpetuated by bourgeois and Trotskyite commentators, both Lenin and Stalin firmly countered the growth of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1215081271&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=trueThe following presentation was given by Carlos Rule to the Stalin Society in September 2001. ***** What is bureaucracy? The first question presents the first problem. ‘Bureaucracy’ is a vague term, with a hundred possible meanings. Herein lies its ...

Revisiting the Bombing of Nagasaki, 78 Years Later

15Aug

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Human Rights, Japan, USA

Revisiting the Bombing of Nagasaki, 78 Years Later

BY JOSHUA FRANK The Nagasaki Prefecture Report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as “like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing.” Image by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. August 9 marks the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. The nuclear fuel for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was produced at Hanford, in eastern Washington state, which is now the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, and the most expensive clean-up in world history. Today the site is laced with billions of gallons of chemical sewage and 56 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste. The following is an excerpt from Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, which investigates the Cold War’s toxic legacy and the looming nuclear dangers of the Hanford project. +++...

Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

15Aug

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Literature

Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

BY PRABIR PURKAYASTHA Leslie Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project, with Oppenheimer in 1942 – Public Domain The new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world many times over. Did the infamous McCarthy era and hunting for reds everywhere have any relationship with the pathology of a society that suppressed its guilt over the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, substituting it instead with a belief in its exceptionalism? What explains the transformation of Oppenheimer, who had emerged as the “hero” of the Manhattan Project that b...

15Aug

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USA

Water Is Life — For the Privileged

BY ROBERT KOEHLER Image by Linus Nylund. As the heatwave intensifies across the country, as workers exposed to the heat collapse on the job in increasing numbers — some of them die — Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has signed a law nullifying local ordinances in the state that require 10-minute heat and water breaks for those who work in the sun. Water is life! Yeah, so what, says Abbott and those who support this law. Critics call it the Death Star Law. Texas Rep. Greg Casar, who recently staged a nine-hour thirst strike on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in protest of such laws — such indifference to the health and lives of so many American workers — said that Abbott, along with other GOP governors like Ron DeSantis, “are participating in the cruelty olympics, trying to outdo each ...

Trudeau’s split from wife reveals some shocking truths

15Aug

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Canada

Trudeau’s split from wife reveals some shocking truths

If the opposition and its supporters can’t figure out a way to compete on a level beyond rumors, personal attacks, and wardrobe critiques, then they’re in big trouble. Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. rachelmarsden.com Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. © Andrej Ivanov / AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced recently that he and his wife of 18-years, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, were amicably separating, leaving some Canadians jealous that they couldn’t do the same. Immediately, the rumor mill went into overdrive. Some on social media suggested that the split involved an affair between Trudeau and very much married Foreign Affairs Minister ...

Global South joining peace talks on Ukraine – a balancing act driven by pragmatism

15Aug

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Russia, Ukraine

Global South joining peace talks on Ukraine – a balancing act driven by pragmatism

The West’s moral argument over the Russia-Ukraine conflict has made little impression on the Global South By Kanwal Sibal, Anti-war demonstration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., United States on February 19, 2023 © Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images If the intention is to genuinely explore a solution to the Ukraine conflict through dialogue and diplomacy, the recent “peace talks” organized at the initiative of the West without including Russia are hardly likely to produce any breakthrough. The meeting of over 40 nations that was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last week, and a similar conference on the Ukrainian peace plan organized in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June, with 15 countries participating, including G7 and EU members...