The 1956 Hungarian counterrevolution and Jacobin's false narrative of a “working-class revolt”

By Nikos Mottas 

Seventy years after the counterrevolutionary events of 1956, Hungary remains a powerful reminder that the struggle between socialism and capitalism does not end with the overthrow of bourgeois power. The restoration of capitalism was not an abstract possibility, nor was the danger of counterrevolution confined to external imperialist intervention. It could also emerge through the exploitation of internal contradictions, political mistakes and the advance of opportunism within the communist movement itself.

Stalin did not deport German communists to Hitler

By Grover Furr.

A critique of an essay by Alex de Jong in Jacobin magazine, August 2021.

In August 2021, the social-democratic magazine Jacobin published an article by Dutch writer Alex de Jong titled “Stalin Handed Hundreds of Communist Over to Hitler”. The assertion in the article’s title is false. De Jong’s article, and other articles and books that make this claim, all commit the following three cardinal errors:

"Socialism Conference 2019" or Imperialism's Τrojan Ηorse?

From July 4 to 7, a large number of left-wing activists from across the United States gathered in Chicago in order to participate in the so-called "2019 Socialism Conference". 

The event was sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Jacobin magazine and the trotskyite publisher Haymarket Books.