On the current state and problems of the communist movement

VI Lenin highlights

Working-class history / Long live May Day!

Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

1 May 2023 , Lalkar
USSR / In memory of Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva

Communists mourn the passing of one of Russia's foremost fighters against the counter-revolution and for the refounding of Soviet socialism.

2 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
Venezuela / Venezuela’s foreign minister: ‘Lenin’s definition of imperialism was correct’

Workers’ representatives from the five continents meet in Caracas to forge ahead with world anti-imperialist struggle.

26 Jan 2020 , Proletarian

USSR / 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.

8 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus.

1 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

2 Dec 2019 ,
China / Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

We wish the Chinese people success in overcoming their enemies in the future as they have done in the past.

24 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus.

3 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

7 Nov 2018 ,
USSR / The October Revolution and the east

How the Russian revolution of 1917 brought socialism to the oppressed peoples of Asia.

21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
USSR / Letter: Follow the road of Great October!

The October Revolution remains, almost a century later, as humanity’s beacon of hope and inspiration.

1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

VI Lenin topics

Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialist Platform
CPGB-ML
Josef Stalin
Kim Il Sung
KKE
KPRF
Leninism
Mao Zedong
Maoism
Marxism
October revolution
Opportunism
Revisionism
Second International
Social democracy
Third International
Trotskyism
VI Lenin
WW1
WW2
Friedrich Engels
Inequality
May Day
Poverty
Protests and strikes
Workers rights
Anticommunism
Corruption
CPRF
Drive to war
Eastern Europe
European Union
Fascism
Nato
Ukraine war
US imperialism
Obituaries
Bourgeois democracy
The state
TUC
Inflation
Overproduction crisis
Planned economy
Unemployment
British imperialism
CPB
Labour party
Market socialism
Capitalist crisis
Imperialist war
Lenin 150
Human origins
Philosophy
Positivism
Science
Karl Marx
Marx 200
Media lies
Bolivarian revolution
Donald Trump
Hugo Chavez
Sanctions
Actually-existing socialism
Transcaucasia
China 70
Chinese Revolution
CPC
Japanese imperialism
Austerity
NHS
Eighth congress
October 100
Comintern
Russia
Letters

VI Lenin video

Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

CPRF rebuts ahistorical assertion that Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine war is as an aggressive imperialist power.

22 Apr 2023,
Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

How is it that the Russian revolutionary experience is still so relevant for workers in Britain today?

14 Nov 2022, Proletarian TV
Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

What is the continuing significance of Lenin’s seminal work on the importance of revolutionary theory?

30 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

The Bolshevik party’s planned socialist development brought a backward nation from the ashes of a devastating civil war to victory over fascism in 1945.

22 Apr 2022,
Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?
USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour
British history / British communism, 1920-1943
Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?
Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party
USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

VI Lenin theory

World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

11 Nov 2023,
USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

6 Mar 2023, Daily Worker
Theory / Lenin lives!

Why do the workers need a communist party; and what should communists be doing that no one else can?

9 Feb 2023, Marx Engels Institute
USSR / 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?

25 Jan 2022, Lalkar
USSR / Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’
British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?
USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?
Theory / Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

What is behind the theory that language structures in the mind are inborn?
USSR / VI Lenin: To workers, soldiers and peasants!

Decree issued by the second all-Russia congress of soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies immediately after the revolution, 7 November 1917.
USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?
USSR / VI Lenin: The immediate tasks of the Soviet government

Excerpt from the pamphlet by V I Lenin, written in April 1918.
Theory / Lenin on party building

What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?
Theory / Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?

What is the role of theory in the communist movement? How should it affect the work we do?

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6
British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history
7
Platform declaration: From the river, to the sea, Palestine will be free!
8
How the west bullied Zelensky into prolonging the war in Ukraine
9
Scott Ritter on the Al-Aqsa Flood battle
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The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

VI Lenin highlights

Working-class history / Long live May Day!

Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

USSR / In memory of Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva

Communists mourn the passing of one of Russia's foremost fighters against the counter-revolution and for the refounding of Soviet socialism.

Venezuela / Venezuela’s foreign minister: ‘Lenin’s definition of imperialism was correct’

Workers’ representatives from the five continents meet in Caracas to forge ahead with world anti-imperialist struggle.

USSR / 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.

USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus.

USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

China / Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

We wish the Chinese people success in overcoming their enemies in the future as they have done in the past.

USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus.

USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

USSR / The October Revolution and the east

How the Russian revolution of 1917 brought socialism to the oppressed peoples of Asia.

USSR / Letter: Follow the road of Great October!

The October Revolution remains, almost a century later, as humanity’s beacon of hope and inspiration.

VI Lenin topics

VI Lenin video

Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

CPRF rebuts ahistorical assertion that Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine war is as an aggressive imperialist power.

Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

How is it that the Russian revolutionary experience is still so relevant for workers in Britain today?

Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

What is the continuing significance of Lenin’s seminal work on the importance of revolutionary theory?

USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

The Bolshevik party’s planned socialist development brought a backward nation from the ashes of a devastating civil war to victory over fascism in 1945.

Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

British history / British communism, 1920-1943

Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?

Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party

USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

VI Lenin theory

World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

Theory / Lenin lives!

Why do the workers need a communist party; and what should communists be doing that no one else can?

USSR / 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?

USSR / Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?

USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?

Theory / Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

What is behind the theory that language structures in the mind are inborn?

USSR / VI Lenin: To workers, soldiers and peasants!

Decree issued by the second all-Russia congress of soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies immediately after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

USSR / VI Lenin: The immediate tasks of the Soviet government

Excerpt from the pamphlet by V I Lenin, written in April 1918.

Theory / Lenin on party building

What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?

Theory / Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?

What is the role of theory in the communist movement? How should it affect the work we do?

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