2020 – Page 57 – Struggle

Alexandra Kollontai: When Lenin proclaimed Soviet power

April 21, 2020 Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party and one of the organizers of the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917. She was a leading Marxist theorist on women’s liberation […]

Langston Hughes: Two poems about Lenin

April 21, 2020 Langston Hughes

The great African American poet and Harlem Renaissance figure, Langston Hughes, wrote two poems about V.I. Lenin in the 1930s. They reflect the tremendous spirit of hope that the Russian Revolution breathed into the national […]

From AIDS to Covid-19

April 21, 2020 Lizz Toledo

From a presentation at the online press conference, “Fighting Racism During the Coronavirus Crisis,” on April 4, 2020. In 1981, a mysterious illness began to appear in the gay community. One of the first and […]

Why is a revolutionary party so important?

April 21, 2020 Melinda Butterfield

The Communist Manifesto was originally called the “Manifesto of the Communist Party.” When Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote their famous pamphlet, it was not just the worldview of two individuals. It was written as […]

Lenin on Tolstoy

April 21, 2020 Vince Copeland

Written in 1990 and first published in the Summer 1993 issue (#18) of Liberation and Marxism magazine. A new book on the Russian Revolution by the professional anti-communist Richard Pipes, “History of the Russian Revolution” […]

Remember the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising!

April 21, 2020 Lev Koufax

April 19 marked the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day in 1943, approximately 500 Jewish fighters launched an attack against Nazi forces occupying the city fo Warsaw, Poland. With its invasion […]

Lenin 150: What he can teach us about this historic moment

April 20, 2020 Melinda Butterfield

For a major anniversary like the 150th birthday of V.I. Lenin on April 22, 2020, it’s tempting to try and write some overarching summary of his enormous revolutionary contributions: building a revolutionary party, imperialism and […]

A George Washington he wasn’t: Why Leninism still lives

April 20, 2020 David Grey

Originally published in the Jan./Feb. 1991 issue (#8) of Liberation and Marxism magazine. “David Grey” was a shared pen name for editors Vince Copeland and David Perez. Right now, it’s hard to find any pro-capitalist […]

Baltimore caravan demands protection for prisoners

April 20, 2020 Lev Koufax

On April 18, progressive working-class activists in Baltimore held a car caravan in solidarity with those currently incarcerated in Maryland jails and prisons. The caravan, organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee and the Peoples Power […]

Coronavirus central in Queens, N.Y.

April 20, 2020 Stephen Millies

As of April 19, some 8,798 people in five adjoining zip codes in the Queens borough of New York City have the coronavirus. About 350,000 people live there. One out of 40 has the virus. […]