In August 1893, when the chair called on her to speak at a session of the Zurich Congress of the Second International, Rosa Luxemburg made her way without
Paul Kellogg To students of twentieth-century Russian history, the name Vladimir Il’ich Lenin is a constant, and inevitable, presence. But the name Iulii Osipovich Tsederbaum better known through the pseudonym “Iulii Martov” is either entirely absent from view or present only as a mysterious, and often unsavoury, figure.
The pseudo-left’s response to the war in Ukraine expresses the interests of the affluent middle class a social layer which has travelled far to the right in recent decades.
One can draw historical parallels only so far before they break down. No two time periods are exactly alike, but sometimes one can see striking similarities between them. That is true about the current war in Ukraine and World War I.