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“Tsar to Lenin” is the only documentary film comprised entirely of actual film footage from the Russian Revolution, and the periods immediately before and after. This extraordinary footage was compiled by Herman Axelbank, who spent years traveling through Eastern Europe, gathering it using any means at his disposal. Released in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, in which the bulk of the Soviet revolutionary generation was physically exterminated, the film received a warm reception from critics, but was quickly suppressed by the Stalinist Communist Party in the US.
Narrated by Max Eastman, sometimes known as the first American Trotskyist, this film is required viewing for anyone trying to understand the historical significance of Russian Revolution, and its implications in the present period.
You can watch the preview at: http://tsartolenin.com/
We invite you to join us for a weekly discussion of pressing current topics and equally pressing lessons from classic Marxist historical and theoretical works.
We will be discussing the escalating tensions in the East China Sea since the establishment of China’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in late November.
By proclaiming an ADIZ that contains the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, also claimed by Japan, and a submerged rock claimed by South Korea, China has played right into Washington’s hands. Through its military and diplomatic “Pivot to Asia”, US imperialism is playing a reckless game of chicken in the East China Sea and elsewhere in an attempt to use its residual military supremacy to offset its China’s economic ascendency amid the US terminal economic decline. The result is eerily similar to the European powder keg in 1913, stoked by tensions between a declining Britain and an ascendant Germany in 1913.
Please read the following articles for background knowledge on the developments:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/25/chin-n25.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/29/adiz-n29.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/05/adiz-d05.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/wolf-d06.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/bide-d06.html
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.
For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986
