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International Communist Review - Issue 2 - 2011

How the October Revolution and the Soviet Union contributed to the labour movement in Western Europe, and more particularly in Belgium, Herwig Lerouge (“Etudes Marxistes”, Workers’ Party of Belgium)

The importance of the critical assessment of the socialist construction in the 20th century for the strengthening of the labor movement and for an effective counter-attack, Aleka Papariga (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)

The 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary and the present-day-anti-Communist Propaganda, Eva Lang (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party)

For the Historical Truth and Truthful Reflection of the Events of the Epoch, Sergey Hristolubov (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)

Luxembourg and the October Revolution, Ali Ruckert (“Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek”, Communist Party of Luxemburg)

Communists and the so called “Socialism of the 21st century”, Pável Blanco Cabrera (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)

Change of the Character of Production in the Process of construction and Development of Socialism, Mikhail V. Popov (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)

From "Eurocommunism" to present Opportunism, Raúl Martínez Turrero (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)

Development of Anti-communism in Turkey during the “Foundation” period, Kemal Okuyan (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)

The PCV and the Construction of Socialism in Venezuela, Department of International Politics. Communist Party of Venezuela (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)

Table of Contents

Editorial

The second issue of the International Communist Review is published in a particularly crucial period of a deep capitalist economic crisis, in a period when the bourgeois attack on people’s rights escalates, the competition between monopolies and the inter-imperialist contradictions intensify. ...

How the October Revolution and the Soviet Union contributed to the labour movement in Western Europe, and more particularly in Belgium

The October Revolution and the creation of the Soviet Union were by far the most important events of the 20th century. And not only for the Soviet people for whom it took only forty years to go from serfdom, a backward economic system, utmost poverty, illiteracy and the colonial oppression of ...

The importance of the critical assessment of the socialist construction in the 20th century for the strengthening of the labor movement and for an effective counter-attack

When we made public the subject of our 18th Congress, which, besides the mandatory overview of our work, included as a special subject our conclusions from socialist construction, several friends of the Party wondered whether it was advisable, under the current conditions and while the signs of ...

The 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary and the present-day-anti-Communist Propaganda

In the years of 1989-90 a bourgeois counter-revolution took place in Hungary. Opportunist and revisionist forces inside the leadership of the former Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (HSWP) made a bargain with capitalist circles of the USA and Germany and handed over the power to internal ...

For the Historical Truth and Truthful Reflection of the Events of the Epoch

The pre-war history of bourgeois Latvia can be divided into two markedly distinct periods: the period of the bourgeois-parliamentary republic, and subsequent years of fascist dictatorship. ...

Luxembourg and the October Revolution

When the Great Socialist October Revolution shook the world in 1917, Luxembourg stood quiet for a certain while, because the country was illegally occupied by the German Empire since 1914. A strike of 10,000 steel workers against hunger and misery, which started on 31. ...

Communists and the so called “Socialism of the 21st century”

In memory of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, on the occassion of the 140th anniversary of his birth. The world counterrevolution of the end of the 20th century gave impulse on the ideological field to the thesis of the end of the history, a campaign directed to affirm capitalism for all eternity, ...

Change of the Character of Production in the Process of construction and Development of Socialism

As is well known, production is the process of appropriation of natural resources within and through the framework of a certain form of society. ...

From "Eurocommunism" to present Opportunism

The theoretical and ideological restructuring of the international communist movement on a Marxist - Leninist basis demands the continue deepening in the study of socialist construction in the 20th century and scientifically analyze the causes of the triumph of capitalist counterrevolution in ...

Development of Anti-communism in Turkey during the “Foundation” period

“Enjoy what is granted to you. Your work accomplished, remain in the circle of your family, with your parents, your wife and children, and think upon household matters and education. That should be your policy and you will spend many happy hours. ...

The PCV and the Construction of Socialism in Venezuela

Nowadays, in Bolivarian Venezuela we are living an intense debate about the theory and practice of socialism which the Communist Party of Venezuela welcomes with satisfaction and trying to contribute to it. Throughout the twentieth century, the oligarchy in power and their real masters, the U.S. ...