A major sticking point in the debate between Anarchists and Marxists has been the issue of centralism; that is to what degree specialized, hierarchical, concentrated divisions of labor are desirable.

How did 'democratic centralism' become 'democratic centralism'? Lars T Lih looks at the changing use of the phrase by the Bolsheviks Vladimir Nevsky (1876-1937) lived the life (in the words of an ...

Eduard Martynovich Dune, a member of the opposition group "Democratic centralism". For his opposition activities he was arrested and spent many years in Vorkuta. Fled during the Second World war.

In his book, “Revolution 1989-The fall of the Soviet Empire”, Victor Sebestyen, describes what happened in the Eastern and Central European communist countries ruled completely by their master, the ...

Jeremy Cronin writes (July 20) that the “key achievement” of the South African Communist Party was to rethink the communist project. The seminal work in this regard was Joe Slovo’s Has Socialism ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presides over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on Monday and Tuesday during ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of last week’s big stories was about Riven Vincent, the mother of a disabled child struggling to get extra ...

An amendment that allows Chinese President Xi Jinping to stay in power for life passed the National People’s Congress with 99.8 percent of the vote. Of the 2,964 delegates, only 2 voted against the ...

The excitement of fellow Nigerians about the 2020 amendment exercise should not surprise observers of politics in the country. By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, ...

Schools in Birmingham are today subject to two separate eruptions. One concerns relations between the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the home secretary, Theresa May, over whether the former ...