When Harry met Stalin
Eben Williams examines the contribution of Joseph Stalin to the CPGB’s programme, and the relationship he had with its General Secretary, Harry Pollitt.
William Gallacher – Reminiscences of Lenin
Willie Gallacher served as a Communist MP for West Fife in Scotland from 1935-1950, and as a member of the Red Clydeside movement, where he played a very important part in the rise of socialism in Britain. Here we republish his writings on his meetings with Lenin, ahead of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920:
What is ‘Stalinism’?
Ben Ughetti writes on how the term has gained popularity amongst sectarian and reactionary political forces
The eclipse and re-emergence of the Young Communist League
Looking at the causes behind the decline and brief death of the YCL towards the end of the last century, Tomasz Nowak argues that it is the success of Marxism Leninism and the failure of the supposed alternative strategies since then, that has led to the regeneration of unapologetic communist activism we see today
