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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Federico García Lorca

    Remembering Federico García Lorca, 90 years since his assassination by Franco’s fascists

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 20, 2026 (more by In Defense of Communism)  |

    August 18 marked 90 years since the murder of Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish poet and dramatist who was executed by Franco’s fascist forces near Granada in 1936, during the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War.

  • Berlin Wall – The GDR and the Cold War

    65 years since the construction of the Berlin Wall – The GDR and the Cold War

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 14, 2026 (more by In Defense of Communism)  |

    Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected.

  • Fidel Castro at 100

    Fidel Castro at 100: History has absolved him!

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 13, 2026 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Aug 14, 2026)

    The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

  • Yanks to the Rescue

    “Yanks to the rescue”: 30 years since the U.S. helped re-elect Boris Yeltsin

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on July 14, 2026 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jul 15, 2026)

    The thirtieth anniversary of the 1996 election is therefore not merely a historical commemoration.

  • Castro

    Raúl Castro is a hero: The real criminals are the U.S. Imperialists

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on May 20, 2026 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted May 22, 2026)

    Millions of people across the world still view the Cuban Revolution as a symbol of sovereignty, resistance and international solidarity.

  • Cuba / Trump

    Why socialist Cuba is more democratic than the U.S

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on April 3, 2026 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2026)

    A country that presents itself as the “global model of democracy” continues to treat a small socialist island as a persistent threat.

  • A Marxist-Leninist Critique of Jürgen Habermas

    A Marxist-Leninist critique of Jürgen Habermas

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on March 15, 2026 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2026)

    The death of Jürgen Habermas closes the life of one of the most influential intellectual figures of postwar Europe.

  • "Left Front" leader Sergei Udaltsov

    Russia: “Left Front” leader Sergei Udaltsov sentenced to six years in prison

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on December 26, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Dec 27, 2025)

    On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the “Left Front” movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.”

  • The Voice of the Peoples

    The Voice of the Peoples: Hadash lawmakers Odeh and Cassif defy imperialists in the Knesset

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 13, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2025)

    In refusing to bow to the applause of killers, Odeh and Cassif embody what it means to act with conscience in a place built on coercion and military might.

  • German Democratic Republic

    DDR: What was the German Democratic Republic?

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 7, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 13, 2025)

    On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic was founded.

  • Communist Movement

    Brief history of the communist movement in Palestine and Israel

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 5, 2025 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2025)

    The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East.

  • Mass demonstrations held in Israel

    The two faces of Israel from a Marxist perspective

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 13, 2025 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2025)

    The recent mass demonstrations held in Israel against the heinous plans of the Netanyahu Government to takeover Gaza remind us that societies aren’t monolithic entities; they contain conflicting forces within them.

  • Ceaușescu

    Ceaușescu’s revenge: 66% of Romanians consider him a good leader, express nostalgia for pre-1989 period

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on July 27, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2025)

    Today, three and a half decades since the parody trial that sent him to the firing squad, Ceausescu seems to take an extraordinary revenge from the counterrevolutionaries who overthrew his power.

  • Ayman Odeh

    Israel: Solidarity with Hadash leader Ayman Odeh

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on June 2, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    Two weeks ago, Ayman Odeh, MP and head of the Parliamentary Group of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), was violently removed from the podium of Knesset for denouncing the genocide in Gaza.

  • Communist Party of India (Marxist)

    Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the killing of 27 Maoists by state forces in Chhattisgarh

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on May 22, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted May 23, 2025)

    In a statement concerning the killing of at least 27 Maoist rebels, including their leader, by state forces, on Wednesday 21 May, in Chhattisgarh, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke.

  • SACP/Trump

    South African communists blast Trump’s imperialist agenda: “We will not bow to imperialist threats”

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on February 10, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  |

    In a statement issued on 6 February 2025, the South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns U.S President Donald Trump’s threats against South Africa and defends the country’s national sovereignty.

  • Kemal Okuyan

    Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 17, 2025 by Marinella Correggia (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    — “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”

  • Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 16, 2025 by Communist Party of Israel & Hadash (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2025)

    Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

  • GDR at 75

    GDR at 75: The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 8, 2024 by Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Austria (PdA) (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2024)

    The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process.

  • Mijaín Lopez

    Mijaín Lopez: The Cuban hero of the Paris Olympics who loves Fidel Castro

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 13, 2024 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Aug 14, 2024)

    The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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