Two wars over Ukraine
Pacifists and liberals are fond of repeating the old adage that ‘the first casualty of war is the truth.’ In fact, the exact contrary is far closer to the truth: […]
Category Archives: Bolshevik party
“Trotsky” : the pornographication of history
In one of the opening scenes of Trotsky, the 2017 television mini-series produced by Russian state television and directed by Alexander Kott and Konstantin Statsky,1 Trotsky is travelling on his […]
The euphoria and tragedy of the German revolution
Second of two articles on Two revolutions that ended the Great War. For Part 1, The Russian Revolution and the demoralisation of the German Army, click here. When finally the […]
Two revolutions that ended the Great War
Part I: The Russian revolution and the demoralisation of the German army It is now becoming apparent even to those who stood remote from socialist theories and forecasts that this […]
Physics, Materialism, Causality, Statistics – and Vladimir Lenin
Mathematics falls from grace (Part 2) By the time modern Statistics arose, the mechanical conception of nature (discussed in Part 1) had already greatly broken down, under the impact of […]
In Defense of October: a Reply to Chris Trotter
Guest post by Terry Coggan, a New Zealand Marxist and trade unionist. Chris Trotter manages to inflict so much injury on historical truth in his short article marking this month’s […]
The nervous moment of insurrection
The October revolution which brought to power the Bolshevik regime in Russia one hundred years ago was both the greatest achievement of the working class, and a watershed which conditioned […]
Larissa Reisner and the German revolution of 1923
In a vain effort to escape from the disgusting trivia of the New Zealand elections, I have been reading Hamburg at the Barricades, Larissa Reisner’s1 account of the failed German […]
A worker at large 