Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
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Notwithstanding the conflicts between them, the ideologists of the Soviet bureaucracy on the one hand and American capitalism on the other shared a common and politically indispensable lie: that the Soviet leaders were dedicated Marxists and that the Soviet Union was, more or less, a socialist society.
Posted on January 16th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
After giving leadership
to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald
Trump, the lame duck President of America, has agreed at last to move out – I
wouldn’t call it a peaceful transition of power on January 20, leaving
America in shambles. There are more troops (20,000 National Guards) now in
Washington D.C. than all the troops in Afghanistan, Iran and Syria put
together to protect it from – no, not Russia or China –but from internal White
terrorist who are threating to raid the capital on the Inaugural Day. All 50 capitals