DR Congo under fire from M23 stooges

Cold war highlights

USA / Trump White House freezes USAid

Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states?

1 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
World history / Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy

Despite these shocking facts having been exposed 30 years ago, and involving every European Nato government, they remain largely unknown outside of Italy.

20 Jan 2025 , Proletarian
Media / Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous

Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth.

16 Jan 2025 , Scheer Post

Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

18 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
Czech Republic / Anticommunist journalist denounces rise of totalitarianism in Czech Republic

Even supporters of the imperialist system are starting to see that it is not all that they were led to believe.

17 May 2024 , Proletarian
Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

4 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
USSR / Inspirational women: Spanish-born Soviet spy Colonel Africa de las Heras

An outstanding comrade who devoted her life to defending the Soviet Union in its battle against imperialism and imperialist-backed fascism.

6 Mar 2024 , Chekist Monitor
World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

20 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

15 Sep 2023 , Lalkar
Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.

26 Aug 2022 ,
British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.

4 May 2022 , Lalkar
World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

20 May 2021 , Proletarian
USSR / Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

One of Britain’s most committed cold war warriors, who went on to live out his years in peace in Russia.

15 Feb 2021 , Lalkar

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Cold war video

World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

There is the real possibility of a wave of critical defeats for the imperialists that could shift the balance of forces decisively in favour of the working masses.

29 Jul 2024,
World TV / Lavrov to UN: Who has even seen the ‘rules’ the west expects us to follow?

Russian diplomat gives imperialists a sharp history lesson, making it clear that the mass of the world’s people have had enough of being bullied and dominated.

10 May 2023, Proletarian TV
USSR / Julia Hawkins: My Life in the USSR

How did the reality of socialism compare with the image painted by western media during the cold war?

17 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
Ukraine / Comrade Ella on Kalima Horra: How did the world react to the Ukraine conflict?

Could it be that the salvoes of the west’s psychological and trade wars are actually backfiring badly?

27 Apr 2022, Proletarian TV

Cold war theory

Congo / DR Congo under fire from M23 stooges

Rwanda’s latest attack-dog offensive against Congo looks like an imperialist attempt to eliminate Chinese influence and re-exert control over Congo’s resources.

1 Mar 2025, Lalkar
World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

10 Sep 2024, Lalkar
USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

20 Jun 2024, Lalkar
USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

4 Apr 2024, Lalkar
USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.
Yemen / Who wants to keep Yemen divided, and who is trying to unify it?

Amid growing resistance to the Saudis in the occupied south, the question of separation is once again raising its head in Yemen.
USSR / Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle

Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.
Ukraine / Disappearing context: West created and backed Ukrainian fascists for 85 years

The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.
Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

1
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 2

‘Though overshadowed by Trotsky in historical memory, there were few Bolshevik leaders more important than Stalin in 1917.’
2
Corbyn Project 2? What could possibly go wrong?
3
Fee-strapped Dundee university faces bankruptcy; staff expected to pay
4
Labour is the enemy of the working class!
5
Volgograd airport renamed for Stalingrad in April 2025
6
Kim Philby: Hero of the working class
7
Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union
8
Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class
9
On the current state and problems of the communist movement
10
Kim Il Sung: 110 years since the birth of Korea’s great revolutionary leader

Cold war highlights

USA / Trump White House freezes USAid

Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states?

World history / Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy

Despite these shocking facts having been exposed 30 years ago, and involving every European Nato government, they remain largely unknown outside of Italy.

Media / Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous

Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth.

Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

Czech Republic / Anticommunist journalist denounces rise of totalitarianism in Czech Republic

Even supporters of the imperialist system are starting to see that it is not all that they were led to believe.

Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

USSR / Inspirational women: Spanish-born Soviet spy Colonel Africa de las Heras

An outstanding comrade who devoted her life to defending the Soviet Union in its battle against imperialism and imperialist-backed fascism.

World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.

British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.

World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

USSR / Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

One of Britain’s most committed cold war warriors, who went on to live out his years in peace in Russia.

Cold war topics

Cold war video

World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

There is the real possibility of a wave of critical defeats for the imperialists that could shift the balance of forces decisively in favour of the working masses.

World TV / Lavrov to UN: Who has even seen the ‘rules’ the west expects us to follow?

Russian diplomat gives imperialists a sharp history lesson, making it clear that the mass of the world’s people have had enough of being bullied and dominated.

USSR / Julia Hawkins: My Life in the USSR

How did the reality of socialism compare with the image painted by western media during the cold war?

Ukraine / Comrade Ella on Kalima Horra: How did the world react to the Ukraine conflict?

Could it be that the salvoes of the west’s psychological and trade wars are actually backfiring badly?

Cold war theory

Congo / DR Congo under fire from M23 stooges

Rwanda’s latest attack-dog offensive against Congo looks like an imperialist attempt to eliminate Chinese influence and re-exert control over Congo’s resources.

World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

Yemen / Who wants to keep Yemen divided, and who is trying to unify it?

Amid growing resistance to the Saudis in the occupied south, the question of separation is once again raising its head in Yemen.

USSR / Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle

Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.

Ukraine / Disappearing context: West created and backed Ukrainian fascists for 85 years

The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.

Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

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