Watch the recording of this lecture by Barry Gray, US national editor of the World Socialist Web Site. Delivered on October 14, it was the first lecture in the second part of the WSWS’s lecture series marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. A question and answer period is included following the lecture.
Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s: Revolutionary art outshines Ukrainian nationalist narrative
Those featured attended the same art schools as other Soviet artists, rebelled against the old conventions together, co-founded artistic movements, shared studios, debated the future of art and became friends and lovers. Many embraced the Bolshevik Party and its Ukrainization policy based on the principle of self-determination including the right to secession.
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A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
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Trotskyists in the former Soviet Union commemorate centenary of Lenin’s death
On Sunday, January 21, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, held an event to commemorate the centenary since the death of Lenin at the age of 53.
Our reporter•