🏭 Soviet Union

Socialism and Man in Cuba: Che Guevara and the Revolution of Consciousness

Breht|Rev Left Radio

Breht reads and reflects on Che Guevara's essay arguing that socialism must transform human consciousness alongside material conditions, fostering a new, less alienated social being through collective struggle and moral incentives.

Aug 23, 2026

Our Entire Civilization Is Run By Oligarchs And Empire Managers — And Other Notes

Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone critiques Western empire, Zionism's Islamophobia, and leftists who condemn Iran, arguing that anti-imperialists must target the US and its allies, not resistance states.

Aug 22, 2026

Jean-Pierre Page: Socialism works, and China is living proof of it - Friends of Socialist China

Friends of Socialist China

Former CGT international department head Jean-Pierre Page concludes that socialism works and China is living proof, citing its nearly 100 million-member party, nearly 150 countries involved in Belt and Road infrastructure projects, and Xi Jinping's pledge to serve 1.4 billion people.

Aug 21, 2026

The fascist history of Japan (part 7): the anniversary of Japan’s unconditional surrender

Amy Yang

Commemorates the 81st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender, asserting that the post-WWII international order remains legally binding while condemning current Japanese right-wing forces, represented by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae.

Aug 18, 2026

Socialism is built by hard work (part 1): Zhang Guimei

Amy Yang

Profiles Zhang Guimei, a Chinese Communist Party cadre who founded the first free girls' high school in Yunnan Province to combat poverty and improve rural education.

Aug 18, 2026

Holding the line: Jiang Zemin at 100

Carlos Martinez|Friends of Socialist China

His economically reformist path saved Chinese socialism during the collapse of the Soviet bloc, accepting inequality costs while preserving the Party's rule and socialist trajectory.

Aug 17, 2026

Operation Paperclip: How Nazis Built the US War Machine

BreakThrough News

The US Operation Paperclip recruited Nazi scientists, SS spies, and generals, installing them in NATO and the Cold War machine, and shielded war criminals from prosecution, a history that upends the dominant US narrative.

Aug 17, 2026

Americans are NOT wealthy: The truth about the US economy

Ben Norton|Geopolitical Economy Report

Analyzing UBS data shows the US ranks 28th in median wealth, making it an unequal plutocracy where average figures mask the struggles of most Americans.

Aug 15, 2026

National Planning: The Soviet Union Model

International Development Economics Associates

This webinar examines the Soviet Union's planning model, its achievements in raising living standards and literacy, its characteristics, modifications, and the causes of its decline in 1991.

Aug 12, 2026

The Inevitable Corruption of Audit – From KPMG to Northern Rock, and Why Socialism is the Only Cure

Ted Carter|Red Anti-Imperialist Collective

Analyzes how capitalist profit motives structurally corrupt audit firms, using KPMG and Northern Rock scandals, and argues socialism with public ownership and worker oversight is the only cure.

Aug 8, 2026

The fascist history of Japan (part 5): Japan's brutal colonial rule in Southeast Asia

Chen Wei|Amy Yang

Japan's WWII invasion and brutal occupation of Southeast Asia is examined, detailing atrocities like the Sook Ching massacre, Manila Massacre, Unit 9420, economic plunder, and forced labor, exposing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as colonial fascism.

Aug 4, 2026

National planning: The Soviet Union model

International Development Economics Associates

The collapse of the Soviet Union triggered a crisis for state-led development, leading many Global South countries to abandon central planning for market-oriented policies, a move now questioned due to neoliberalism's failures.

Aug 4, 2026

Learning to plan: Revisiting the Soviet experiment

C.P. Chandrasekhar|International Development Economics Associates

Reassesses the Soviet economic experiment, arguing that despite constraints, it successfully replaced market mechanisms with central planning, prioritized heavy industry, and achieved rapid growth and full employment.

Jul 30, 2026

Storm the Heights of Culture: Public Art in the German Democratic Republic

Zetkin Forum for Social Research|The Tricontinental

An examination of East Germany's building-integrated art program, its socialist principles, major works, and the post-reunification fate of its public murals.

Jul 26, 2026

Imperial Japan: Then and Now Collection

Park Jee-hoon|Voice of the Proletariat

A curated collection documents Imperial Japan's WWII war crimes, including comfort women and Unit 731, and examines contemporary neomilitarist trends under the LDP.

Jul 24, 2026

Rare for Japanese TV: NHK revisits Unit 731. What does the documentary reveal?

CGTN Frontline | YouTube

In a rare move for Japanese TV, NHK aired a documentary providing an unusually candid look at Unit 731, the Imperial Japanese Army's covert biological warfare unit. The film reveals evidence of Unit 731's wartime atrocities, including biological warfare experiments, breaking a long-standing taboo in Japan regarding discussion of the unit.

Jul 23, 2026

NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia (Michael Parenti)

Red Pen

Michael Parenti documents NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia as imperialist aggression, exposing media distortions and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure that constituted war crimes.

Jul 19, 2026

Historian Richard Sakwa: The West Chooses Self-Destructive War Over Peace

Dr. Radhika Desai

Western elites' refusal to negotiate drives the Ukraine war, leading to horizontal escalation with deep strikes into Russia and vertical escalation with nuclear talk in Moscow, while two-thirds of Ukrainians want talks and Russia turns post-Western.

Jul 17, 2026

He Ran The Fed For 18 Years And Left An Economic Time Bomb

Dr. Radhika Desai

Alan Greenspan set the Federal Reserve on the trend toward a bubble-driven economy, contrary to his claim of driving innovation, while the Fed used the rhetoric of its dual mandate to inflate asset bubbles and serve financial elites.

Jul 3, 2026

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 5

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Bourgeois multi-national states cannot resolve national contradictions, which imperialism transformed into inter-state struggles; the Soviet system, by proclaiming the right of nations to secede, struck at the root of national enmity and won non-Russian workers' confidence. Victory of the Soviets and proletarian dictatorship are fundamental conditions for abolishing oppression.

Jun 3, 2026

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 6

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Volume Six of Stalin's Collected Works gathers his 1924 writings and speeches, the first year without Lenin, which played a cardinal role in defeating Trotskyism and defending Leninism. The volume opens with pieces exposing Trotsky's errors, including his call for freedom of groups.

Jun 3, 2026

Russia's Economy Isn’t What The West Told You

Dr. Radhika Desai

Based on a recent trip to Russia, the discussion analyzes Russia's economy and world position through its Eurasian integration efforts. It also covers the Chinese development model, prospects for multi-polarity, the fascism-imperialism connection, and Ukraine War sentiment.

Jun 3, 2026

Fall Of The Soviet Union

The Triploi Podcast

An analysis of the USSR's collapse, tracing events from the 1917 revolution through economic stagnation and reform failures to the union's dissolution.

May 2, 2026

In defense of Yugoslavia: Max Blumenthal on Michael Parenti's bravest work

Max Blumenthal|The Grayzone

Max Blumenthal defends Michael Parenti’s book To Kill A Nation against posthumous attacks, highlighting its exposure of the planned breakup of Yugoslavia and NATO’s war on Serbia.

Apr 26, 2026

uMkhonto we Sizwe: Ronnie Kasrils

Ronnie Kasrils|African Renaissance Podcast

Ronnie Kasrils recounts his recruitment into the ANC's armed wing, detailing MK's sabotage campaigns, Soviet military training, and internal political struggles.

Apr 22, 2026

A Critique of Western Marxism

Red Pen

Contrasts Western Marxism with Marxism-Leninism, defending China's socialist market reforms through the lens of historical materialism.

Apr 19, 2026

The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism

Torkil Lauesen|Iskra Books

Argues that the transition from capitalism to socialism is a long, global process driven by the fundamental contradiction between productive forces and the capitalist mode of production; it rejects purity politics in favor of material analysis. Examining China’s market socialism as a key case study, the book contends that internationalism is essential to prevent chaotic collapse.

Mar 22, 2026

Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology​

Guillaume Suing|Iskra Books

Socialism, particularly the Soviet Union and Cuba, has historically achieved ecological sustainability through dialectical materialism and socialist planning, rebutting claims of communist environmental destructiveness. The book also critiques 'green capitalism' as a tool for maintaining the status quo and hindering emerging powers such as China, Russia, Brazil, and India.

Feb 4, 2026

Haggadah for Believers and Heretics

Moshe Altshuler|Iskra Books

This Soviet Yiddish Communist Haggadah reworks the Passover liturgy for Bolshevik ends: it recasts the search for leaven as cleansing counter-revolutionaries, ties the seder to Soviet reconstruction, and replaces blessings with curses on rabbinic institutions. It reads the bread of affliction as capitalist exploitation, dismisses the rabbis' 'next year in Jerusalem' promise.

Mar 31, 2025

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 3

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Stalin's 1917 writings chart a course from critiquing the Provisional Government's insufficient national equality decree—advocating political autonomy and self-determination—to exposing Milyukov's imperialist war aims as contradicting the government's stance. He argues workers and soldiers should support only the Soviets, which represent the toiling masses.

Feb 5, 2025

Western Marxism

Domenico Losurdo|Monthly Review

The book traces Western Marxism from its 1920s emergence as a critical alternative to Soviet orthodoxy, arguing that it died as a political force by becoming an academic discipline divorced from revolutionary practice, but can be reborn by reconnecting with the revolutionary movements and practical struggles that originally shaped it.

Sep 17, 2024

For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union

Aymeric Monville|Iskra Books

Aymeric Monville's counter-inquiry defends Stalin and the USSR against Western anti-communist propaganda, arguing that Cold War 'hoaxes' aim to exclude communists amid class struggle. He rejects the equivalence between Nazism and communism, citing the USSR's role in defeating fascism and its social achievements, and critiques Western narratives on the gulag and figures like Gareth Jones.

Aug 14, 2024

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 2

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Stalin's collected writings and speeches from 1907-1913 detail the Bolshevik struggle against the Mensheviks and Cadets, exposing the 'Cadet danger' as real while the 'Black-Hundred danger' was a liberal myth. The book recounts electoral tactics and the national question, showing how Menshevik opportunism led workers to prefer Socialist-Revolutionaries, and how Bolsheviks isolated the Cadets.

Aug 14, 2024

Past: An Introduction to the Problem

Želimir Žilnik|Iskra Books

This book deconstructs the dominant post- and anti-communist narrative about the communist past, arguing it obscures that past and destroys any possibility of creating historical experience from it. Using Želimir Žilnik as a case study because his life and work resist canonization, it critiques the 'culture of the past' and the commodification of memory.

Jun 30, 2024

Apartheid Did Not Die: South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution

Mandla J Radebe|Inkani Books

Apartheid's structures persist in South Africa, repainted rather than dismantled, as media and racial capitalism maintain elite hegemony, leaving liberation unfinished.

Jan 15, 2024

The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

Walter Rodney|ProleWiki

Walter Rodney's essay analyzes the Russian Revolution from a Third World perspective, arguing that distinct Marxist frameworks are needed for African and Asian contexts. The text details the 1905 uprising, noting mass strikes and peasant revolts; separately, it describes naval mutinies that weakened Tsarist rule and presents the St. Petersburg Soviet as a model of workers' power.