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Sungur Savran

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Sungur Savran

The true hero of the "Great Patriotic War"

We have just celebrated the 80th anniversary of May 9. We emphasized that the victory on May 9, 1945 proved that the antidote to fascist barbarism is not bourgeois liberalism and pacifism, but proletarian socialism. If Nazi Germany, and…

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The man who declares war on the world

Donald Trump completed his first 100 days as President of the United States at the end of April. The whole world is discussing these 100 days. But no one understands anything. It's like the story of the blind men describing an elephant:…

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Trump’s chainsaw

For a brief moment, the chainsaw became the symbol of the panoply of policies pursued by the Trump administration, carried through in frenetic tempo by the team led by Elon Musk, to diminish or even to destroy the services provided by the…

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Blitzkrieg!

Hitler's military strategy during World War II was called Blitzkrieg, or “lightning warfare”. During the First World War (1914-1918), trench warfare was the dominant doctrine. This method, which involved armies facing each other in…

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La France en sursis or France on borrowed time

The parliamentary elections in France ended up surprising the entire world. One French commentator said, “the most surprising election results in the entire history of France”. Before the second round, everyone was speculating whether the…

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La hormiga y el saltamontes

¡Qué previsible! ¡Qué obvio! ¡Qué banal! Los resultados de las elecciones que se desarrollaron en los 27 países europeos del 6 al 9 de junio fueron ampliamente recibidos como si hubiera algo novedoso, algo sorprendente. Durante muchos años…

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Giants united – Lenin and Trotsky

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…

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The old mole

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…

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La Era del Egoísmo

This article was originally written in Turkish and published in the special issue No. 50 of Devrimci Marksizm, the Turkish-language journal of theory and politics published by DIP (Revolutionary Workers Party) of Turkey in a special…

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Ucraina: una guerra de poder

El 24 febrero era el aniversario del comienzo de la guerra en Ucrania. Esta ha sido una guerra salvaje, mortal y brutal. No es exagerado decir que es un espejo de la guerra más amplia, posiblemente mundial, que promete seguirle los pasos…

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The USSR as World Hegemon

It is the first embodiment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the fullest sense, whereas the Paris Commune was a first approximation in that direction and, moreover, lasted only 72 days. The USSR embodied the minimal conditions that…

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The lessons of Sri Lanka

A certain event that happened during the 1917 October revolution has always been a bit of a mystery for historians. After the Bolsheviks brought down the provisional government and handed power over to the highest organ of the Soviets, the…

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Italy before the deluge

“Coming to Italy, the country is in the grip of an economic depression at the national level since the beginning of the new century, i.e. even from before the worldwide depression started in 2008. Its GDP is lower today than it was as at…

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