Lenin: How to Oppose an Unjust War

Greg Butterfield The Leninist view of how to fight against imperialist war remains one of the most controversial and defining characteristics of the communist movement, because it means standing up to the capitalist class at the moment its fangs are bared. Why do we think it’s important to study what Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin wrote…

The Russian Revolution Changed the World Forever

Stephen Millies Vladimir Lenin giving a speech to the Red Army in Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920. On the right of the platform is Leon Trotsky, commander of the Red Army. One-hundred-and-two years ago on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. Two million soldiers in the Russian army…