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Czechoslovakia
This is an edited version of an article by Alan Woods originally published in 1968. Forty years ago, on the night of August 20th-21st Russian and other Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia, thus...
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Alan Woods on the Russian Revolution "Trotsky defended the genuine traditions...
Alan Woods was recently interviewed by the Argentine magazine Sudesta on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. He deals with the gradual political degeneration of the Revolution and its usurpation...
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
The Third International has been officially buried. In the most undignified and contemptible fashion it would be possible to conceive, it has passed off the stage of history. Hurriedly and without...
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years on
Today we mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by publishing an article from the current edition of Socialist Appeal which analyses why the events of 1989 have not had the outcome...
View ArticleThe Moscow Trials: A lesson from history
The Moscow Trials, which lasted from 1936 to 1938 will go down as the greatest frame-up in history. Their aim was to liquidate the entire remaining Bolshevik old guard and act as the means by which...
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
To celebrate this year's centenary of Ted Grant, founder of the Militant Tendency and Socialist Appeal, we are re-publishing a series of Ted's key writings. We begin with Ted's pamphlet "The Rise and...
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What is Stalinism?
The events of the Russian Revolution1917 are the greatest in all of human history. For the first time in history, the exploited masses fought back and won. And yet within 10 years, the Soviet Union had...
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The Revolution Betrayed: a Marxist masterpiece
Continuing our commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, we publish here an introduction by Alan Woods to Trotsky's masterpiece: the Revolution Betrayed.
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Trotsky’s Stalin – a Marxist masterpiece
Alan Woods discusses Trotsky’s great unfinished work, Stalin: a unique piece of Marxist literature that attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of...
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Russia: from revolution to counter-revolution
We publish here extracts from Alan Woods' introduction to the new Wellred Books' edition of Ted Grant's Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution, republished this year to celebrate the centenary...
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