November 9 is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (amongst other incidents in modern German history). This is traditionally viewed as a major turning point for the international communist movement, although I would argue that it didn’t ‘shock’ the movement like the events of 1956. I thought I would post a link to a paper I wrote in 2010 on the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and how it was received by British Marxists (from the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Britain). Perhaps the most ‘controversial’ paper that I have written, the argument I make in it is:
This paper will focus on the Marxist left in Britain to demonstrate this argument, to show that the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states was for the British left much more diffuse, rather than…
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