'I am concerned at the break-up of the Soviet Union and the leadership it gave!' - Jeremy Corbyn's words of wisdom on Stalinism
The following is the text of a speech that Jeremy Corbyn gave in 1991 at a meeting to discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the speech, Corbyn does criticise the Soviet Communist Party for its elitism but he clearly has no understanding of the way the Soviet regime did all it could to sabotage any genuine revolutions. Corbyn also makes no clear references to the mass killings, secret police, militarism and economic failures that were fundamental to the Soviet system.
Sisters Uncut Occupy London’s Holloway Prison
Smothered by regeneration: the Grenfell Tower fire
The UK coalminers’ dispute, 1973-4
Violence in the women’s suffrage movement
What now? Fighting austerity in a hung parliament
Voting as Counter-Revolution – how the politicians who gave us the vote saw things 100 years ago
A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women over thirty and to working class men. By doing this they hoped to restore people's faith in parliamentary government and thereby counter any revolutionary tendencies inspired by the Russian Revolution. As Sylvia Pankhurst said in 1923:
Why I’m still not voting
Call COBRA, that’ll sort it
I originally posted this at Freedom News shortly after the Manchester bombing, but blow me if it's not strangely prescient on today's events as well...
The aims and principles of the Union of Anarchist Groups
The Aims and Principles of the Union of Anarchist Groups, from the Congress of the Union of Anarchist Groups, held in Glasgow December 2-3, 1945.