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No hay término medio; el siglo XXI pertenecerá a la clase trabajadora unida con fuerzas antiimperialistas y movilizaciones juveniles, o los peores horrores del siglo XX regresarán con el fascismo en ascenso, la Tercera Guerra Mundial y la aniquilación nuclear a la vuelta de la esquina.
Hagamos de este Primero de Mayo una ocasión para forjar los baluartes internacionales contra la guerra imperialista y la plaga fascista. Hagamos de este Primero de Mayo un punto de inflexión histórico para la construcción de la Internacional revolucionaria que se necesita con urgencia.

There is no middle ground; the 21st century will either belong to the working class united with anti-imperialist forces and youth mobilizations, or the worst horrors of the 20th century will make a comeback with fascism on the rise and Third World War and nuclear annihilation around the corner.

Let us make this May Day an occasion for forging the international bulwarks against imperialist war and fascist plague. Let us make this May Day a historical turning point for the building of the urgently needed revolutionary International.

The Soviet Union Association expresses its deepest condolences to all those injured in the terrorist attack on the evening of March 22 in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow and to the families of the victims. It is more than likely that the imperialists of the United States, the European Union and their allies are responsible for the terrorist attack, and the terrorist attack and the terrorists who committed it were somehow prepared by special NATO structures.

For some years now, we at DIP (Revolutionary Workers Party) have been criticising the international Trotskyist movement for an ideological, organisational and political tendency to underestimate those aspects of Lenin’s Marxism which are peculiar to him. A corollary to this is that Trotskyists also depart from certain characteristics of Trotsky’s own Marxism since in his mature period, i.e. from mid-1917 on Trotsky became a Bolshevik and thus subscribed to some of the views of Lenin he had earlier criticised, primarily but not exclusively with respect to the revolutionary vanguard party.

21 Şubat 2022 gecesi Vladimir Putin’in kablo televizyonu aracılığıyla yayınlanıp birçok dile eş zamanlı olarak çevirilen ve böylece dünya genelinde geniş bir izleyici kitlesine ulaşan konuşmasının en önemli yanlarından birisi, Rusya ve Ukrayna arasındaki ilişkilerin tarihi yönüne dair uzun uzun konuştuğu kısımdı.

La declaración del Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, publicada en el 80 aniversario del asesinato de Trotsky por un agente de Stalin, fue republicada ayer en su sitio web. La esencia de la declaración se puede expresar de la siguiente manera: El movimiento trotskista no ha protegido ni protege adecuadamente las ideas, la práctica y el legado de Lenin, tanto en el pasado como en la actualidad. Sin embargo, Trotsky fundó la IV Internacional para preservar el legado de Lenin, la Revolución de Octubre y la Internacional Comunista (Comintern) y traer de regreso a la vanguardia del proletariado internacional a las barricadas de la revolución de manera organizada. Casi ninguno de los movimientos trotskistas que dicen ser sus seguidores leales menciona siquiera el legado que es necesario preservar, principalmente el legado de Lenin y la Comintern.

Pero el legado de Lenin o no ha sido comprendido, ha sido negado deliberadamente o ha sido rechazado silenciosamente. Con esto no nos referimos a la contribución de Lenin al programa marxista, al concepto de estrategia, a los métodos organizativos, especialmente al partido revolucionario y a la teoría. Éstas son conocidas y discutidas, sean verdaderas o falsas. Lo que queremos decir es otra cosa. La práctica revolucionaria de Lenin desde el comienzo de la Guerra Mundial, es decir, durante la última década de su vida (1914-1924), permitió el surgimiento de una visión programática y estratégica completamente original para hacer avanzar la revolución mundial. Es a esta visión estratégica a la que nos referimos cuando hablamos del legado que ha sido ignorado o negado durante los últimos cien años.

Most of those who describes the place and role of Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov (1924 - 1979) in Soviet philosophy call him either the most outstanding or one of the most outstanding truly Marxist philosophers in the USSR (see, for example: Mareev 1990: 57, Mezhuyev 1997). His main contribution is considered to be the rediscovery and development of the materialist philosophy of K. Marx, F. Engels and V. I. Lenin, primarily Marxist dialectics. In particular, Ilyenkov's book The Dialectic of the Abstract and Concrete in K. Marx's Capital “can be compared with Hegel's Science of Logic in terms of its significance for modern Marxist dialectics and the depth of the topics covered in it” (Kurochkin 2009). Therefore, the significance of Ilyenkov's philosophy, “his creative activity for Russian philosophical, more precisely, Marxist thought (if we understand Marxism as the highest synthesis of the entire previous development of human thinking) is difficult to overestimate – it was clear even during Ilyenkov's lifetime” (Kurochkin 2009).

Οι συνεδριάσεις μας σήμερα, 21 Ιανουαρίου, 2024, ακριβώς 100 χρόνια από τη μέρα που ο Βλαντιμίρ Ίλιτς Λένιν, ο ηγέτης της Μεγάλης Οκτωβριανής Σοσιαλιστικής Επανάστασης του 1917 πέρασε στην αιωνιότητα, σηματοδοτούν την έναρξη ενός πολύ αναγκαίου, φρέσκου, συλλογικού αναστοχασμού της επαναστατικής του κληρονομιάς. Δεν είναι ένας τυπικός εορτασμός ενός “ακίνδυνου ειδώλου”, μιας κληρονομιάς που μετατράπηκε σε αποστεωμένο, νεκρό δόγμα. Χρειαζόμαστε μια νέα διαλεκτική-κριτική στροφή στην ιστορική της πηγή, που δεν έχει καθόλου στερέψει. Παραμένει μια απαραίτητη πηγή έμπνευσης και δημιουργικότητας για την επαναστατική θεωρία και πράξη, για όλους αυτούς που σήμερα παλεύουν για την αυτοχειραφέτηση της εργατικής τάξης, για την απελευθέρωση της εκμεταλλευόμενης και καταπιεσμένης ανθρωπότητας. Με αυτό το πνεύμα, θέλουμε να κηρύξουμε αυτό το έτος, το 2024, ως το Έτος Λένιν!

What does Lenin's legacy mean one hundred years after the Bolshevik leader's death? The October Revolution made it possible for Finland to establish an independent bourgeois state with Lenin's approval. The agreements of Brest Litovsk, the naive and inexperienced leadership of the working class in Finland, and the intervention of the Germans contributed to the fact that Lenin handed over the document of independence not to the representatives of the workers, as he would have liked, but to the bourgeoisie. The civil war that started right after that and the defeat of the Reds sent the rebels underground, to prisons, concentration camps or Soviet Russia.

On January 21, 2024, exactly a hundred years from Lenin’s death, an online international conference dedicated to his legacy successfully took place, organized by the International Socialist Center “Christian Rakovsky” and the RedMed web network.
Many participants from all Continents, from the Americas to the Antipodes, Australia, from all parts of Europe and Russia to Africa, the Middle East and Asia have joined this collective and open Marxist rethinking on the historical role, contribution and actuality of the legacy of Vladimir I. Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and architect of the victory of the October 1917 Socialist Revolution.

Devrimci İşçi Partisi’nin de mensubu olduğu Hristo Rakovski Uluslararası Sosyalist Merkezi ve RedMed internet ağı, geçtiğimiz Pazar günü, 21 Ocak 2024’te, Lenin’in ölümünün 100. yıldönümünde, “100 Yıl Sonra Lenin’in Mirası” başlığıyla uluslararası çevrimiçi bir konferans düzenlediler. Dokuz saat süren ve sonunda Filistin sorununa ilişkin özel bir oturum düzenlenen konferans, katılan herkesin ortak kanısına göre son derece başarılı geçti. Konferansın genel gidişatını değerlendiren bir yazıya pek yakında sitemizde yer vereceğiz. Konferansın açılışında Yunanistan EEK (İşçilerin Devrimci Partisi) Genel Sekreteri Savas Mihail-Matsas Rakovski Merkezi adına, yoldaşımız Sungur Savran ise RedMed adına birer açılış konuşması yaptılar. Savas yoldaşımızın konuşmasının metninin Türkçeye çevirisi tamamlandığında onu da yayınlayacağız. Aşağıda Sungur yoldaşımızın konuşmasının metnini yayınlıyoruz.

Welcome to the International Conference on Lenin’s Legacy 100 Years On organized by the International Socialist Center “Christian Rakovsky” and the RedMed web network!

Our deliberations today, January 21, 2024, exactly 100 years from the day when Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the leader of the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution passed away to eternity, marks the beginning of a much needed, fresh, collective reflection on his revolutionary legacy. It is not a formal celebration of a “harmless icon”, of a legacy reduced into a fossilized, dead dogma. We need a new dialectical-critical turn to a historical source, which is not at all dried up. It remains an indispensable source of inspiration and creativity for revolutionary theory and practice for all those who today fight for the self-emancipation of the working class, for the liberation of the exploited and oppressed humanity. With this spirit, we want to declare this year 2024 as the Year Lenin!

International Socialist Center Christian Rakovsky and RedMed Web Network marked the centenary of the passing of Vladimir Ilitch Lenin with an international conference. The international dimension of the online event, which brought together speakers from five continents, was a modest yet fitting tribute to the internationalist legacy of comrade Lenin. The conference met on the 21st of January, although the starting time varied for participants due to the great variety of countries represented – as the opening remarks were uttered, for some participants the first lights of January 21st had barely appeared; for others, it was almost midnight.

21 January 2024 is the centenary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, one of the greatest leaders of the international working class. At DIP (Revolutionary Workers’ Party, Turkey) and at the International Socialist Centre Christian Rakovsky, this is the Lenin Year for us.
Why? Because Lenin fought all his life for the poor, exploited and oppressed classes and strata of humanity, starting of course with the working class. He is the great leader who led to its triumph the revolution in Russia that started in February 1917 and struggled to expand this triumph to the continents of Europe and Asia. Most importantly, he is a leader of the international proletariat, the bearer of the emancipation of the human race.

2022 yılı Azerbaycan’daki iktidar rejimi için birçok fırsat yarattı. Şöyle ki 2022’de siyasi iktidar hem “Medya hakkında” hem de “Siyasi partiler hakkında” yeni kanun tasarılarını yürürlüğe koymayı başardı.
2021 yılının sonlarına doğru hükümetin açıkladığı “Medya hakkında” yeni kanun tasarısı ülkede sınırlı imkanlarla sürdürülmeye çalışılan serbest gazetecilik faaliyetini doğrudan devlete bağlama teşebbüslerinin işaretiydi. Yeni kanun tasarısı gazetecilere ve medya kuruluşlarına hükümetin doğrudan veya dolaylı olarak mahkemelerde dava açabilmesine imkân sağlıyordu. Kanun tasarısı 2022 yılın 8 Şubat tarihinden itibaren yürürlüğe girmişti.

We are proud to present to our readers Issue No. 4 (19) for 2023 of Советское Возрождение, Бюллетень Ассоциации «Советский Союз» or in English Soviet Renaissance, Bulletin of the Association “Soviet Union”.

There are friendships that are temporary; there are also friendships that live forever, beyond even the abyss of death. Alexander Vladimirovich Buzgalin was, is, and will always be my friend and comrade in the struggle for universal human emancipation, the realm of freedom, and communism. For me, as well as for a great number of others all over the world who had the privilege to forge a real friendship with him, our Sasha will always tell us the immortal verses of Velimir Khlebnikov.

Uzun zamandır acı çektirilen Gazze’yi çevreleyen işgal duvarlarını sembolik ve fiilî anlamda yıkıp geçen 7 Ekim 2023 tarihli Filistin silahlı ayaklanması, Ortadoğu ve dünya politikasında bir kırılma noktasına işaret ediyor.
Bu ayaklanma, seneler sonra işgalci İsrail ordusunu utanç verici bir yenilgiye uğratarak yalnız tepeden tırnağa yüksek teknolojik donanımlı ve silahlı İsrail istihbaratının zayıflığını değil, en başta aşırı sağcı Siyonist Netanyahu hükümetinin ve bir bütün olarak yerleşimci-sömürgeci Siyonist projenin iflasını gün yüzüne çıkardı. Sivil kayıpların, ölümlerin ve esirlerin İsrailli Yahudi nüfusun toplumsal bilincinde yarattığı müthiş şok, Yahudi üstünlükçü bir “Yahudi Devleti”nin uyguladığı işgalin ve Filistin halkına zulmün Yahudiler için “ulusal bir sığınak” yaratamayacağının, olsa olsa ölümcül bir tuzak ve felaket anlamına geleceğinin anlaşılmasını da getiriyor.