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Spreading anti-communist hot air: Washington’s balloon warfare against the USSR

February 8, 2023 By Richard Saville

The U.S. government claims China is deploying “spy” balloons, but during the Cold War, it was Washington that used balloons to carry out anti-communist propaganda missions against the socialist bloc.

Réquiem por un sueño: a cien años de la fundación de la URSS

January 11, 2023 By Oleg Yasinsky

Pertenezco a una generación privilegiada. Nací a finales de los años 60 en la URSS.

Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR

January 11, 2023 By Oleg Yasinsky

I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.

Lenin’s legacy: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy

April 22, 2022 By Joe Sims

Without the October Revolution, the very concept of working-class rule, the idea that ordinary workers are “enough”—that they possess everything needed to create a new just world—would remain a distant dream.

Alexandra Kollontai at 150: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation

March 31, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollantai was the first woman in history to serve in a government Cabinet.