Lenin

Lev Yurkevych ‘Ukraine and the War’ is the earliest concise Marxist analysis of the Ukrainian question to be presented to international socialists.

Sonny Melencio — A socialist party will inevitably make compromises when dealing with reformist forces. The challenge is maintaining independent political struggle and freedom to criticise bourgeois and liberal allies.

Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevancy of Lenin’s theory of imperialism while outlining subsequent developments that need to be factored in.

Paul Le Blanc addresses the question: “What makes socialists believe that another world is possible?”

Paul Le Blanc on the indissoluble tie between reform and revolution.

Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels to understanding the politics of the English working class.

In this chapter from his forthcoming book, John Riddell offers a lucid presentation of the Comintern’s strategic orientation and a serious-minded engagement with Daniel Bensaïd thinking on such questions.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Lenin’s vision of the national question was far from assimilationist; it was a dialectical approach that recognised proletarian internationalism could only be built on respect for national and cultural differences.

James Doughney interrogates some commonly held beliefs and assumptions about monopoly capital, surplus profits and the export of capital — and explains why they are not coherent.

Hanna Perekhoda revisits Lenin’s pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his Ukrainian contemporary, Lev Yurkevych.

Michael Pröbsting — Imperialism today is not a system characterised by “antagonistic cooperation” but rather by antagonistic contradictions.

James Doughney — It is hard to avoid thinking that any attempt to airbrush Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ is a form of avoidance behaviour in the face of awkward but stubborn facts.