Stalinism
75 Years After the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp: The Declaration by the International Communists
75 years ago, the prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in central Germany liberated themselves. Trotskyists from different countries who had been imprisoned in the camp published a declaration calling for a Germany based on workers' councils.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 11, 2020Between the Myth and the Woman: Remembering Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is widely considered one of the most famous painters in Latin America. On the 65th anniversary of her death, her unique body of work and enigmatic persona continue to mesmerize viewers, but the picture her works paint of her life tell a more complex story.
Madeleine Freeman
July 13, 2019On the Trotskyist Rudolf Klement, Assassinated by Stalinism
Rudolf Klement, secretary of the Fourth International and a companion of Leon Trotsky, was so instrumental in spreading Trotskyist ideas and arguments abroad that he became a danger to Stalin's hegemony. Stalinist agents kidnapped him on July 12, 1938, and his body was found over a month later.
Leah Muñoz
July 12, 2019Chernobyl: An Environmental Catastrophe Caused by Stalinism
In the early hours of April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 of the Pripyat nuclear power plant in Ukraine—then part of the USSR—blew up. The HBO miniseries “Chernobyl” shows what caused the disaster: Stalinism.
Óscar Fernández
June 10, 2019The Moscow Thermidor: Stalinist Degeneration and the Lessons for Today
What was Stalinism? Why did it occur and will it be the fate of all socialist revolutions?
Edson Urbano
April 16, 2018Five Myths About the Russian Revolution Debunked
Although the idea of socialism is growing in popularity, myths about the Russian Revolution persist.
Seiji Seron
November 7, 2017Testament of Leon Trotsky
On August 20, 1940, an assassin sent by Stalin murdered Leon Trotsky. Yet the ideas of the Russian revolutionary remain relevant 77 years after his death. Left Voice republishes the testament of the founder of the Red Army as a tribute.
Leon Trotsky
August 20, 2017At the Source of Eastern Europe’s Bureaucratic Governments : the Degeneration of the Soviet Union
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, Left Voice in collaboration with Révolution Permanente, will publish a series of articles on the different aspects of one of the most heroic struggles of the working class in the 20th century.
Philippe Alcoy
December 5, 2016The Days When Hungarian Workers Defied Stalinism
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is, so to speak, a “forgotten revolution.” Erased and banished from popular memory, it was a thorny subject for Soviet authorities and remains one for Western capitalists today. What made this revolution so subversive?
Juan Chingo
December 2, 2016A Trotskyist in North Korea
Our author visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a tourist. His question: How does this society function? Is it the Stone Age? Or a cult? Or Dadaist art? A historical-materialist research trip.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 14, 2015