Tony Cliff

These classic essays from the international socialist tradition make a powerful and convincing case for building revolutionary socialist organizations in the fight for liberation. Party and Class by Tony Cliff and Duncan Hallas delves into the intricate relationship between political parties and social classes. It offers a detailed analysis of how revolutionary change can be enacted through organised, collective action....

When Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers' revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe. The Revolution...

In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history. To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism—unemployment, poverty, the threat of new wars—to place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working...