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EH Carr (1946): The Ideological Impact of Bolshevism Upon the World! (1.1.2023)

EH Carr wrote objectively and in-depth about the history of the Russian Revolution (of 1917) and the development of the USSR (in 1922)! In many ways the work of EH Carr (which stretches to many volumes) is a fair ‘Bourgeois’ analysis of this crucial aspect of working-class history, as it covers virtually all the significant areas of 20th century development within the International Communist Movement! His work on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet ‘Planned Economy’ represents a historical tour de force that covers not only ‘Russian’ history but also many of the key developmental issues effecting such countries as China, Korea and Vietnam, as well as those post-1945 countries throughout Eastern Europe that formed the ‘Communist Bloc’. Obviously, in the post-1956 Khrushchev-era fair-minded historians such as EH Carr were forced to ‘insert’ anti-Stalinist lies and disinformation into their work if they wanted it to be published! Most free-thinking individuals can read between the lines in a number of EH Carr’s later works which sometimes differ in part from the glowing approach he adopted pre-1956! On the whole, however, the infrequent and atypical interferences from under-pressure Publishers can be easily seen, duly noticed and discarded as being of no historical worth! EH Carr, writing very much like Antonio Gramsci whilst languishing in an Italian prison – had to write in a pro-Communist code that the average US-controlled censor was not smart enough to catch! ACW (1.1.2023)

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Lenin: Conversation with Clara Zetkin (1920) – Her Recollections! (31.12.2022)

Clara Zetkin was sent by Rosa Luxemburg to set Lenin straight over issues of the rights of women – and the direction and tone of the Revolution in general! Rosa Luxemburg – like many adherents of the failed Second International – disagreed with Lenin and his ‘Third International and suggested the Revolutionary Movement should cooperate with the existing Bourgeois status quo to a greater extent, and back away from the idea of ‘overthrowing’ the capitalist system! In this regard, and when taking these attitudes into account, Rosa Luxemburg sailed very close to the Trotskyite position of collaboration with reaction. Indeed, she would eventually be murdered by one of her former students – a tragic end that reveals the limitations of her attitudes. Below is an English translation of a text originally written in the German language by Clara Zetkin recalling her memories of a number of discussions, she had with Lenin during late 1920 in Moscow as the Russian Civil War was still raging and Lenin (and the Communist Party) were planning the forming of large federal Socialist State as a means to generating the conditions for a better form of military self-defence from attack by the capitalist world. During early 1918, Revolutionary Russia had been invaded by Imperial Germany and six of her Allies, and by the UK, US and twelve of their Allies! This war would last from 1918-1921 and cost the Russian people 10.5 million casualties! Imperial Japan would only abandon Vladivostok during October 1922 – just before the forming of the ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ (USSR) on December 30th, 1922! Meanwhile, far from telling Lenin what to do or think, Clara Zetkin found herself converted by his intelligence and insight and returned to Germany informing all and sundry that Lenin was right, and that Rosa Luxemburg should listen and learn from Lenin! Marxist-Leninist ‘Feminism’ is the only truly ‘Revolutionary’ path for women and is very different to the ‘Bourgeois’ mock-feminism that abounds today! For women to be truly ‘free’ – predatory capitalism must be overthrown completely and there can be no compromise whatsoever on this point! Anyone woman that compromises with capitalism is a traitor to the Revolutionary cause!

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100th Anniversary of the Founding of the USSR (1922)! ‘Soviet Man’ By Alexander Werth! (30.12.2022)

Author’s Note: Alexander Werth was born in Russia in 1901 and emigrated to the UK with his family during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Although his father had been a railwayman (and working-class) – following his early death his mother had remarried a thoroughly ‘Bourgeois’ banker – which led to him being forcibly ‘extracted’ out of Revolutionary Russia at the critical moment of its greatest humanitarian success! Despite a thoroughly ‘Bourgeois’ upbringing in the UK – an ‘English Gentleman’ no less – Alexander Werth retained an interest in the machinations of his Russian (Soviet) homeland, an interest bolstered by the fact that he could fluently read, write and speak the Russian language! Indeed, working as a BBC Journalist during WWII, Alexander Werth secured a permanent frontline posting with the Soviet Red Army and witnessed first-hand the barbarism of the Nazi German invasion! Due to his loyalty to the Soviet Cause, after the conflict he was granted a face-to-face interview with Comrade Joseph Stalin – who assured him that the USSR would NEVER go to war with the US or UK – as both countries (and peoples) had diligently stood by the USSR as reliable ‘Allies’ during the darkest days of the Nazi German (and ‘Axis’) invasion! Stalin was particularly appreciative of the UK which had stood alone from 1939-1941 – an example which had inspired the Soviet people to endure the unendurable! Having spent the years 1941-1949 in the USSR – Alexander Werth returned in 1959 to see what changes had occurred following Khrushchev’s denouncement of Joseph Stalin! In his book ‘Russia At War’, Alexander Werth had exposed the fact that Nikita Khrushchev – the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukraine – had been given the task of coordinating and leading the defence of the region against the Nazi German onslaught during 1941! Khrushchev had ordered the Soviet Red Army in the region to ‘fight to the last man’ whilst he quietly caught the last aeroplane out – thus abandoning the Communist Party and the Red Army to their horrific fates! Stalin knew about Khrushchev’s cowardice and there was always the threat of Khrushchev being arrested and tried for his behaviour – when Stalin had fewer pressing issues to deal with! This is the basis behind Khrushchev’s betrayal of Stalin and the adoption of a Trotskyite direction the USSR adopted after 1956 (resisted by Maoist China)! It is interesting to note that Marshal Zhukov REFUSED Khrushchev’s demands that he alters his biography and ‘denounce’ Joseph Stalin! In many ways the book extracted here covers the Marxist-Leninist ground that served as the foundation of the USSR! Although entitled ‘Soviet Man’ – today this title might be better translated as ‘Soviet Person’ or even ‘Soviet Humanity’, etc, as such a ‘new’ Socialist human-being includes ALL men, women and children without exception! This is what the Communist Party of the Soviet Union intended on December 30th, 1922, when the ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ (USSR) was announced, developed and constructed! Long Live the USSR! Long Live Lenin and Stalin! ACW (30.12.2022)

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100th Anniversary of the Founding of the USSR (1922-2022)! Two Articles by VI Lenin! (30.12.2022) 

A few years ago, I acquired a Two Volume Set entitled the Essentials of VI Lenin (1947) from Comrades in the ‘New Communist Party’ (NCP) in London. The NCP was busy embracing the North Korean ideology of ‘Juche’ and were happy to jettison overt ideological works pertaining to the USSR – such as those involving Lenin and Stalin. Their loss was my gain (although a modest amount of money did change hands) and I acquired the full Stalin Collection and a very good (and quite ‘rare’) Two Volume Edition of Lenin – published at a time when the USSR was still riding high following its 1945 Victories over Naxi Germany and Imperial Japan – and before the US Cold War had fully kicked in – (falsely equating as it did the USSR with Nazi Germany). A point to remember is that the Nazi Germans (and their allies – which included the Vatican) murdered around 41 million Soviet men, women and children – far more than officially died in the ‘Holocaust’ (although at least in-part, the Nazi Germans carried-out some of the ‘Holocaust’ killings whilst occupying Soviet soil). The USSR, of course, betrayed Lenin and Stalin through the behaviour of Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 – a known coward who fled the fighting in the Ukraine during 1941 to save his own skin! The USSR as founded in 1922 must be applauded for the working-class achievement that it was, and which it remains! We must strive to keep its memory alive by correctly telling its story! Onward Comrades!

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USSR FOUNDING (1922) DOCUMENT (2): The Foundation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – Report Delivered at the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR – December 30th, 1922 – J. STALIN COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME 5 (1921-1923) [25.12.2022]

Between 1914-1917 – the Russian people were allied with the UK against the Germans as allies during WWI. In that time, the Russian people lost around three-million casualties (mostly soldiers recruited from the peasant and workers’ class). This pointless mass murder unleashed various Revolutionary Forces throughout society – and the Russian Bolsheviks were eventually propelled into power through their slogan of ‘All Power to the Soviets’! The Bolsheviks were granted the ‘collective’ power held by their working associations (Soviets) – with Lenin ‘elected’ into the role of ‘General Secretary’ of the Communist Party of Russia! As a consequence, Lenin pulled Russia out of the war and thereby saved millions of lives! Following the Russian Revolution and Russia’s extraction from WWI, the UK, US (and twelve of their allies) militarily invaded Revolutionary Russia (between 1918-1921) and inflicted an attempted genocide upon the Russian toiling masses! This was aided and abetted by Imperial Germany which invaded Revolutionary Russia (together with six of its allies) between April-November 1918 (primarily operating in West Ukraine to the joy of the local Catholic population). Between April-November 1918 – British and German soldiers (primarily of working-class stock), fought shoulder to shoulder as ‘allies’ within Revolutionary Russia – whilst their British and German Comrades-in-Arms still killed one another as ‘enemies’ in the mud and filth of France and Belgium! This is part of the duplicitous ‘bourgeois’ history of WWI (and its immediate aftermath) that is never taught in schools nowadays! This mass invasion of Revolutionary Russia cost the lives of at least 10.5 million Russian people and has become known (rather bizarrely) as the ‘Russian Civil War’ – as if the Russians did all this to itself! And yet out of all this destruction, Lenin (and Stalin) cleverly manoeuvred the Revolutionary Russian people through the Revolutionary process, and a war with the entire known world! This they did in an expert manner and then established the ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ (USSR)!

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Communist Party of China – Constitutional Amendment – Resolution (Full Text)! (23.10.2022)

The Congress calls on Party organizations at all levels and all Party members to follow the firm leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party. They should become more conscious of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership; have firm confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics; uphold Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership; and more purposefully study, observe, apply, and uphold the Party Constitution. This will ensure that the entire Party strives in unity to build a modern socialist country in all respects and advance national rejuvenation on all fronts.

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