Anti Imperialist Action IrelandRelaunched Socialist Republican Radio in a new format including interviews and a panel discussion. On this April 2020 show, we speak to Seán who is involved in organising the All Ireland Rent and Mortgage Strike about that Campaign and the fight against landlords. Then we have a discussion with Liam, one of the editors of […]
We asked Grover next about his recent research about Lenin’s Last Writings, and the So-Called “Last Testament of Lenin.” Briefly put, some of the last writings of Lenin are sharply critical of Stalin and appear to be sympathetic to Trotsky. The genuineness of these documents was not questioned at the time, that is, when Lenin […]
We next asked Prof. Grover Furr why there is such a lack of academic objectivity, when academics study the history of the Soviet Union. Let me start off with this example. There are a very large number of documents from former Soviet archives that have been made public either in books or on the Internet […]
Why are there so many lies about this period of communist struggle? Well, I think that’s clear. On the one hand, there were lies about the Soviet Union from the day of the Communist Revolution. To the capitalists, this was bad! The working class seizing power, taking all the property away from the great landowners, […]
To start off our interview, we asked Professor Furr to give his definition of words typically used to describe the 1930s Soviet Union. Words like “totalitarianism,” “Stalinism,” “dictator,” “terror,” “the GULAG,” “democracy,” and “socialism.” These are among the key words used by people, whether scholars, the media, or elsewhere, to falsify the history of the […]