The Guardian • Lenin
Issue #2083
LETTER
Dear Comrade Editor, 21st January, 1924 is indelibly etched in my memory after having visited the Gorki Palace just a few kilometres from Moscow in...
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Issue #2086
Lenin: Marxism from the universal to the specific
The recent Communist Party Organising Conference in Sydney this January coincided with the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death. As part of a celebration of Lenin’s...
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Issue #2004
Lenin’s legacy: working class leadership in the fight for democracy
Lenin walks around the world . . . The sun sets like a scar, Between the darkness and the dawn, There rises a red star....
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Issue #2047
175 years of reading the Communist Manifesto
Of course, we have all read, and all do read the Communist Manifesto. This year as we celebrate its 175th anniversary it is imperative to...
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Issue #2095
Happy Birthday, Lenin
Ninety-five years ago, the African-American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black,...
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Issue #2207
Lenin’s Warning: Eurocentrism and the New ‘Left-Wing’ Infantilism
In the spring of 1920, as the young Soviet Republic struggled for survival amid internal and external siege, Lenin penned “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder....
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Issue #2024
Melbourne hosts another successful CPA National School
Who started smoking cigars earlier, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Fidel Castro? Which scientific discovery was announced in The Daily Worker (a British communist paper) before anyone...
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Issue #2145
Second international anti-fascist forum, Moscow 22-24 April 2025
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) hosted the Second international anti-fascist forum in Moscow on 22-24 April 2025. Some 400 delegates from 91...
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Issue #2143
LETTERS
Dear Editor, Every April in Australia, ANZAC Day comes around with little discussion to water down the exaggerated displays of nationalism and jingoism. Vijay Prashad...
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Issue #2083
Lenin
One hundred years ago, on 21 January 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Lenin, passed away. To paraphrase Engels’ words on Marx,...
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Issue #2121
Lenin’s Nature Reserves – a great Soviet achievement
The Soviet Union was a cradle of environmentalism, a global pioneer in nature conservation. Two days after taking power in the October 1917 Revolution Lenin’s...
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Issue #2195
Sunshine Coast branch report
The Sunshine Coast Qld branch of the CPA recently held its education session on Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917). This...
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Issue #2107
The last stage of capitalism
In defining imperialism, Lenin pointed to qualitative changes within capitalism. First and foremost of these is the development of monopoly capitalism. “… the rise of...
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Issue #2201
Sunshine Coast education book club reads ‘What Is to Be Done?’
The Sunshine Coast Branch education book club classes on Lenin’s important and influential work, 1902’s What Is to Be Done? have been very rewarding. Lenin...
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Issue #2084
CPA Organising Conference – UNITY IN ACTION
On the weekend of 19-21 January, the CPA hosted an organising conference that brought together comrades from across the country in Sydney on Gadigal Country....
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Issue #2169
October Revolution spirit lives
Since this edition of the Guardian – the Workers’ Weekly marks both the Party’s 105th anniversary and the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, we mark...
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Issue #2143
EDITORIAL
By the time you read this, the federal election will be finished. After a long and tiring campaign, it’s understandable that a lot of people...
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Issue #2081
EDITORIAL
Lenin said of the Paris Commune that to Marx it was “more important than hundreds of programs and arguments,” because the Commune was real action,...
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Issue #2131
DESCENT TOWARD FASCISM
“One of the most ‘democratic’ republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of...
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