Continuing our series on the historic crimes of Stalinism, and in defence of the genuine ideas of communism, Rob Sewell examines the disastrous ‘Popular Front’ policy in the 1930s, which consigned the revolutionary working class to defeat.

Across Britain, industry is going to the wall. Steelworkers in Port Talbot are being thrown on the scrapheap. Automation threatens to destroy swathes of jobs. To protect our lives and livelihoods, we need socialist planning and workers’ control.

On this day in 1917, Lenin returned to Russia, arriving into Petrograd’s famous Finland Station. This was the beginning of his one-man struggle to politically reorient the Bolshevik Party – a vital stepping stone towards the October Revolution.

From schools and hospitals, to railways and roads: the country’s public buildings, infrastructure, and utilities are falling to pieces, due to mismanagement, corruption, and profiteering by the capitalists. We say: make the billionaires pay!

This weekend, Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, in retaliation against Israeli strikes. The situation in the Middle East is becoming increasingly fraught and unstable, with a regional war and mass social upheaval on the cards.

Writing for the latest issue of the ‘In Defence of Marxism’ magazine, with the upcoming launch of the Revolutionary Communist International, Alan Woods discusses the history of Marxist internationalism, and the lessons for communists today.