On the 9th of August 1945 General KIM IL SUNG gave the order for the Korean People's Revolutionary Army to go over to the final offensive to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule and a week later Korea was liberated

"Transport worker! Arm yourself with technical knowledge and fight for the reconstruction of transport!" Soviet poster, 1931.

A reminder of what the world lost with the fall of the USSR is contained in this little Soviet pamphlet from 1983, expressing full and militant support for the Palestinian struggle, including its armed struggle, explaining what measures the Soviet Union was taking to support that struggle (including the supply of arms) and denouncing US imperialism's support for genocidal zionism.

Interesting to note from the letters quoted how well informed Soviet citizens were about what was really happening in the middle east. Compare with the general ignorance prevailing amongst western workers, then and now, to see what a difference a decent education and an internationalist and anti-capitalist media make to the outlook of the people.

And this was at a time when the Soviet Union was in a state of fairly advanced decay as compared with the ideological and educational high point of the Stalin era.

Think about what this graphic represents. Think in particular about the tiny geographical space into which all these tons of bombs have been concentrated.

And then think about how our media’s non-outrage and normalisation of this horrific crime feeds the sense of resignation amongst the wider western public.

Not only Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak and Starmer should be in the dock. But also all the editors of the corporate media papers and TV channels that promote zionist narratives, criminalise resistance and leave the wider population either in complete ignorance or feeling that this activity is somehow normal, acceptable and/or unalterable.

CPGB-ML party members have returned from a visit to Xinjiang with glowing reports of the thriving multi-ethnic society they saw there.

One in which all citizens are valued equally; in which the best aspects of their language, culture and heritage are preserved and valued; and in which opportunities for education and a decent life are being opened up to all.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/23/news/how-a-peoples-government-defeated-a-west-backed-terrorist-insurgency/

Keir Starmer is over in Berlin today to start the process of undoing Brexit. The Brexit vote in 2016 was a great revolt, largely of the working class, against the wishes of the most powerful sections of the ruling class. That's why the rich hate it and have been working non-stop to undo it ever since.

“Formerly, the victory of the revolution in one country was considered impossible, on the assumption that it would require the combined action of the proletarians of all or at least of a majority of the advanced countries to achieve victory over the bourgeoisie. Now this point of view no longer fits in with the facts. Now we must proceed from the possibility of such a victory, for the uneven and spasmodic character of the development of the various capitalist countries under the conditions of imperialism, the development within imperialism of catastrophic contradictions leading to inevitable wars, the growth of the revolutionary movement in all countries of the world-all this leads, not only to the possibility, but also to the necessity of the victory of the proletariat in individual countries.”

- J. V. #Stalin (The Foundations of #Leninism)

@Communism

This article by Josef Stalin was written in response to denunciations of the Soviet Union by Labour foreign minister Herbert Morrison.

It contains a wonderfully pithy summary of the difference between socialist and imperialists definitions of the concept of ‘freedom’, as well as being an excellent rebuttal of the 1945ism (nostalgia for the supposedly ‘good old days’ of a ‘socialist’ Labour government after WW2) that still plagues the vast majority of the self-identifying ‘left’ – an illusion that they pass on continually to the British working class.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/09/05/news/history/josef-stalin-labour-party-nato-ussr-1951/

To the Marxist it is indisputable that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, it is not every revolutionary situation that leads to revolution. What, generally speaking, are the symptoms of a revolutionary situation? We shall certainly not be mistaken if we indicate the following three major symptoms: (1) when it is impossible for the ruling classes to maintain their rule without any change; when there is a crisis, in one form or another, among the “upper classes”, a crisis in the policy of the ruling class, leading to a fissure through which the discontent and indignation of the oppressed classes burst forth. For a revolution to take place, it is usually insufficient for “the lower classes not to want” to live in the old way; it is also necessary that “the upper classes should be unable” to live in the old way; (2) when the suffering and want of the oppressed classes have grown more acute than usual; (3) when, as a consequence of the above causes, there is a considerable increase in the activity of the masses, who uncomplainingly allow themselves to be robbed in “peace time”, but, in turbulent times, are drawn both by all the circumstances of the crisis and by the “upper classes” themselves into independent historical action.

Lenin - The Collapse Of The Second International

"Izhevsk gunsmiths. Sovinformburo report", 1979.

Artist - Georgy Alexandrovich Repin (1934 - 2020)

Josef Stalin, great pupil of Lenin, leader of Soviet socialist construction, leader of the WW2 defeat of fascism, is being steadily rediscovered by the masses, who are once again struggling to free themselves from the grip of crisis-ridden monopoly capital.

The bourgeoisie have spent the decades since Stalin's death maligning the reputation of this great revolutionary leader, who was universally admired by the working and oppressed peoples during is lifetime. They have worked overtime and thrown vast resources into their campaign to instil fear into our minds at the very mention of his name.

But in the end, the truth will out.

The more we wake up to the fact that we are lied to about almost everything important, the more we begin to question also the myths that have been propagated against JV Stalin.

Once we realise that our interests are diametrically opposed to those of the ruling class, then we start to question WHY they should loathe and despise certain figures and ideas – and why they want us to loathe and despise them too.

It's very encouraging to see this quote from Stalin inscribed on a big banner and hanging in the conference hall in Caracas, where the global antifascism congress is now taking place.

The past has many important lessons to teach us as we prepare for the coming battles. And Marxist science as practised by its most faithful adherents, remains as true today as it was a century ago.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls out the EU claiming to be concerned with Venezuela while they ignore the genocide in Gaza.

The comments were made in a meeting with the military police high command who have led the efforts against right-wing protesters attempting to overturn the results of the presidential elections.

Last week saw intense violence from opposition supporters calling for a coup. Hospitals, food storage centers, and public buildings were torched and vandalized. In response, Maduro confirmed that more than 2,000 involved in the riots have been arrested since last Monday and that the “fascist outbreak” has been controlled.

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"The Waiting Wife" by Kim Chol Heon. 2007