Ian Birchall reviews the final Notebooks of Victor Serge, written between 1936 and 1947.
Darren Roso reviews a new biography of Werner Scholem, a leading figure in the ultra-left faction of the German Communist Party during the tumultuous Weimar republic.
Marxist historian Robert Bollard surveys a range of responses to Mikhail Gorbachev on the broad left, and finds them wanting.
Anne Picot debunks the commonly held idea that the USSR was an example of a planned economy.
David Lockwood analyses the social, political and economic factors that precipitated the heroic Tiananmen Square movement.
Robert Bollard looks at the history of the crisis in former Yugoslavia.
Sandra Bloodworth looks at the impact of identity politics on some of the best feminist and social historians of the Russian revolution.
One of the magnificent features of the Arab revolutions is the ruthless manner in which they have exposed the dirty, duplicitous, hypocritical, blood-soaked truth about the global political establishment. As the revolutionary wave spread...
Omar Hassan confronts the myth that the Assad dynasty in Syria was ever socialist or anti-imperialist.