Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The Prophetic Last Words of a Marxist for Our Times
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Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The Prophetic Last Words of a Marxist for Our Times

‘Lenin led to Stalin’ is not even given the status of a historical controversy in schools and colleges. It is accepted as fact. This belief is destroyed by a document known as Lenin’s Testament. The Testament was dictated by Lenin as he lay dying in Gorky.

The Cuban Revolution Through the Eyes of the Women of My Life
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The Cuban Revolution Through the Eyes of the Women of My Life

This January 1st Cuba will celebrate 65 years since the triumph of the Revolution of 1959 led by Fidel and a group of valuable men and women, for whom the gratitude of the Cuban people remains intact. This article honors that victory through three women whose lives have the Revolution as a common thread.

Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
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Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy

The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.

“The West’s Domination is Coming to an End”: Niger’s Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy
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“The West’s Domination is Coming to an End”: Niger’s Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy

Peoples Dispatch speaks with Sani Adamou, Secretary General of Niger’s Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy, to discuss the root causes of the recent coups and the future of democracy in Niger.