This essay by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North was originally published on April 22, 2020, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. Today marks the 150th ...

There is a striking contrast between the impression produced in the minds of West-European revolutionaries by those short pamphlets of Lenin and Trotsky which appeared in poorly translated and poorly ...

The extremely conditional form in which Lenin invoked the right to self-determination was spelled out in his 1913 work on the subject. The fact that he did not endow this right with some eternal or ...

In April 1920, when Lenin was putting the finishing touches to his Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, he was as yet unaware of the founding of the KAPD, which would reinforce his ...

ONE of the paradoxical elements in the political psychology of the day is our incredible gullibility. Our politics is the very spoil of charlatanry. Our thinking is sublimely free of thought. And — to ...

TO THE FINLAND STATION—Edmund Wilson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of ...

I just received an email from Sen. Barbara Boxer in which she expressed joy and relief over ending the shutdown and a hope that there will be no shutdowns in the future. She says, “…we should never go ...