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There are a thousand kinds of privatization. For example, you take Turkey's largest industrial enterprise Petkim, a series of refineries that used to belong entirely to the state, and turn it over to Turkey’s largest capitalist…
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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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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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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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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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In the United States, the inauguration of a newly elected president, which occurs every four years on January 20 following the November election, is a significant event, but foreign dignitaries are typically not invited. Donald Trump broke…
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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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How foreseeable! How obvious! How banal! The results of the elections that unfolded in the 27 European countries held on 6-9 June were greeted extensively as if there were something novel, something surprising. For many years, at least…
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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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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…
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We are gathered here from five continents on the centenary of Lenin’s death in order to discuss his legacy, because we are interested more in the future than in the past or, rather, we are interested in this past to the extent that it…
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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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So, the “most important election of the year” (dixit The Economist) is over. At the end of the second round, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won by several percentage points (52 per cent to 48 percent) against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (we will abbreviate…
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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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Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine. This has been a savage, deadly, brutal war. It is no exaggeration to say that it holds a mirror to the broader, possibly worldwide war that promises to follow on its heels…
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a state established by Lenin in 1922 as a state for the international working class, including Muslim and Turkic peoples. The USSR provided permanent job security, free education, quality…
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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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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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“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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We have just published "In defence of Lenin: a reply to Putin on the collapse of the USSR", an article by our comrade Sungur Savran. This article we are now publishing by Savran explains the epoch-making character of Lenin's national…
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