We Can Learn From the Russian Revolution
October 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, when the workers of Russia, fed up with the misery of capitalist rule, overthrew the capitalists and took power into their own hands in the most democratic revolution in world history. The state they established, the Soviet Union was a beacon of hope for a […]
Catalonia: From Anti-Referendum Repression To Social Unrest?
With clubs and rubber bullets, repression hit the independence referendum organised on October 1st in Catalonia. 844 people were injured, two of them seriously. The Spanish government deployed 10,000 police officers and civilian guards to close the polling stations and seize election materials. This is how Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government opposed ballot papers. To […]