The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact revisited: Grover Furr challenges anti-communist narratives in new book

A new book by historian and author Grover Furr, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Explained: The Soviet Struggle for an Anti-Nazi Alliance, published by Erythros Press, examines the diplomatic developments leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War, challenging dominant bourgeois interpretations of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939. Drawing on historical evidence, Grover Furr argues that the Soviet Union consistently sought to establish a collective security agreement against Nazi Germany, while the governments of Britain, France and Poland obstructed efforts to create a united front against Hitler's expansionism.

 

Who forgets the Munich Agreement? 88 years since capitalist “democracies” struck a deal with Hitler

On 29 September 1938, Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier gathered in Munich to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia. The country whose territory they were bargaining over was excluded from the negotiations. 

Britain and France accepted the surrender of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany and Prague was forced to accept the diktat. 

Along with the territory went crucial fortifications and strategic positions, leaving Czechoslovakia gravely weakened before the Nazi war machine. 

Terrorizing the Nazis: Remembering Soviet heroine Lyudmila Pavlichenko

On July 12, 2026, communists and progressive people around the world commemorated the 110th anniversary of the birth of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (1916–1974), one of the greatest heroines of the Great Anti-fascist Victory and a symbol of the Soviet people's struggle against nazism-fascism.

Born in the Russian Empire and raised in the Soviet Union, Pavlichenko embodied the values of the socialist state, which opened the doors of education, professional life and military service equally to women and men. 

 

The Iron Felix: 100 years since the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky

One hundred years ago, on 20 July 1926, the international communist movement lost one of its most steadfast revolutionaries. At just 49 years old, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky—remembered forever as the "Iron Felix"—passed away after suffering a heart attack, only hours after delivering a lengthy speech to the Plenary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on the country's economic situation.

Dzerzhinsky was not born into the working class. Born in 1877 into a relatively well-off Polish family, he consciously abandoned privilege and devoted his entire life to the cause of proletarian revolution. 

 

81st anniversary of the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples: Statement of the European Communist Action

The 9th of May - The Victory of Socialism over Fascism

 

On this day, 81 years ago, Nazi Germany capitulated to the socialist Soviet Union. The victory of socialism over the most brutal expression of capitalism was a fact. 

 

As we have done all previous years, we honour all the millions who gave their lives to achieve this goal, all those who became martyrs in the anti-fascist struggle. We never forget.

 

What does Berlin fear? Soviet symbols banned again ahead of 9 May anniversary!

For yet another consecutive year, German authorities in Berlin are imposing restrictions around Soviet war memorials during the anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples on 9 May, banning Soviet flags and symbols associated with the Red Army that defeated Nazism!

According to an administrative order issued by Berlin police, the restrictions will apply from 8 to 9 May around the Soviet memorials in Treptow, Mitte and Pankow.

From Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin to Artemis II: The Socialist Origins of Spaceflight

By Nikos Mottas

The ongoing Artemis II mission—set to carry humans once again into lunar orbit—marks a significant moment for contemporary space exploration. It reflects accumulated technological progress, decades of experience, and renewed ambition. 

But if we are serious about understanding how humanity reached this point, we cannot begin the story here. The road to Artemis did not start in the 21st century nor in the laboratories of private corporations. It began in a very different political and social context: with the first socialist state in history, the Soviet Union.

What If Cuba Had Nuclear Weapons? The Limits of “Peaceful Coexistence”

By Nikos Mottas

Today, more than six decades after the Cuban Revolution, the United States continues to enforce one of the most prolonged and comprehensive systems of economic warfare in modern history. The blockade—tightened, codified, and expanded over decades—seeks not merely to pressure, but to suffocate. 

Sanctions on fuel, financial strangulation, extraterritorial enforcement, and constant efforts to disrupt Cuba’s access to energy and trade are not isolated measures; they form a coherent strategy aimed at exhausting a society that refuses to abandon its chosen path.  

80 years since Fulton: Churchill’s imperialist manifesto against Socialism

By Nikos Mottas

On 5 March 1946, less than a year after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill stood before an audience at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and delivered the speech that would soon be known as the “Iron Curtain” speech. 

In Western political mythology, the address is often portrayed as a prophetic warning about Soviet expansion. In reality, it was something quite different: a calculated ideological declaration of hostility toward the socialist world and one of the founding political acts of the Cold War.

Seventy years since the 20th CPSU Congress: When revisionism became doctrine

 By Nikos Mottas 

Seventy years after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (14-25 February 1956), the time for euphemisms has long passed. What occurred in February 1956 was not a minor rectification within the socialist project, nor a supposedly neutral “de-Stalinization” necessary for renewal. It was a decisive political reorientation that reshaped the trajectory of the international communist movement and altered the balance within the socialist camp. The Congress did not overthrow socialism, but it changed the theoretical and strategic line of the Soviet state in ways that strengthened revisionism, legitimized opportunism, and weakened the dictatorship of the proletariat from within.

The fall of the USSR was a tragedy for humanity, but not the end of history

By Nikos Mottas

On 26 December 1991, when the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, the world did not merely witness the dissolution of a state. It witnessed the victory of counterrevolution—the temporary triumph of capitalism over the most advanced historical attempt to abolish exploitation and class rule. The fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the end of an experiment that had “failed,” as bourgeois ideology insists. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history precisely because it interrupted a process that had transformed the lives of hundreds of millions and reshaped the global balance of class forces.

“Great Joe”: How Joseph Stalin Became the Honorary Chief of Native American Tribes

In an extraordinary and inspiring chapter of World War II history, the leaders of Indigenous nations across the Americas honored Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1942 by naming him an honorary chief. This bold gesture reflected their fierce admiration for Stalin’s iron leadership and his unstoppable resistance against the Nazi invaders.

In February 1942, the American Indian Confederation (AIC), uniting 27 powerful tribes from the United States, Canada, and Central America, bestowed upon Stalin the title of “Honorary Chief of All Indian Tribes.” The honor came with a traditional Native American war bonnet, the ultimate symbol of courage, authority, and warrior spirit.

 

Socialism in One Country and the Founding of the TKP

By Mehmet Kuzulugil

Between the 1923 Turkish Revolution and the Great October Revolution, there is a striking temporal, geographical, and historical overlap.

Anatolia-centered national struggle against the occupation lasted roughly from 1919 to 1922. In a sense, 1923 marks the date when the century-long modernization process and the prolonged bourgeois revolution were consolidated with the Republic.

Grover Furr: The Betrayal of the Communist Movement in the Soviet Union

Speech by Professor Grover Furr to the Institute for the Critical Study of the Society (ICSS) of Oakland, California, on the subject "The Betrayal of the Communist Movement in the Soviet Union": 

Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, communists had always believed that the only way a socialist state could be destroyed was by hostile forces from the outside. Now we know that this was tragically wrong. The Soviet Union was destroyed by betrayal from within. 

Lavrov's sweater and the actual meaning of CCCP

The article below was published on 902.gr, official portal of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on Saturday 16/8 under the title "No matter what they do, CCCP will always mean: Socialism consolidated in battle!". 

Read below the text translated into English:

"In the sidelines of the Trump-Putin meeting, the sweatshirt worn by Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov with the initials of the USSR, namely CCCP (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), was commented on worldwide.

50 years since the death of Dmitri Shostakovich: A child of the October Revolution

"If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth"  

-  Dmitri Shostakovich

It was 9 August 1975 - 50 years ago - when one of the 20th century's giants of music died. He was Dmitri Shostakovich, the great Soviet composer and pianist who left his indelible mark on Russian and international culture. 

Grover Furr's Khrushchev Lied is perhaps one of the most important books of the 21st century

By Nikos Mottas

Khrushchev Lied, first published in 2011, is definitely the most emblematic work of Grover Furr, an American Professor of Medieval English Literature at Montclair State University who has devoted years of research on Stalin-era Soviet Union. 

Before going to the book itself, it is significant to underline that Furr isn't an ordinary historian who relies on the dominant narratives and “sacred truths” of bourgeois historiography. On the contrary, he carefully challenges those narratives and “truths”, applying a dialectical approach on history and seeking for the actual facts one by one, usually using an enormous list of thoroughly-searched, primary and secondary, sources.

Harry Pollitt: The Influence of Socialist Construction in the USSR on Workers in Capitalist Countries

By Harry Pollitt

THE October Revolution in Russia in 1917 sent an electric thrill through the war-weary workers of the world. 

In our lifetime, the taunt of the capitalists, such as Churchill, that the workers are “not fit to govern” has been hurled back at them with a rebound that day by day is having its revolutionizing effect all over the world. 

The True Stalin

We republish an interesting opinion article on Joseph Stalin written on May 2, 2025, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Antifascist Victory, by historian and geopolitical analyst Christine Lynn, editor of the americanorthodoxchristian.com. (The views and opinions expressed in the article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect, in their entirety, the views of the present site)

By Christine Lynn 

European Communist Action: 80 years since the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples

Joint Statement of the Parties participating in the European Communist Action on the 80th anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples:

"May 9, 1945 marks 80 years since the Great Anti-Fascist Victory when Nazi Germany surrendered and the peoples of the world, with the decisive role of the Red Army and the Soviet Union under the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as the organizer and inspirer of this struggle, brought fascism to its knees across Europe.