Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Nikita Khrushchev has died aged 84.

Sergei Khrushchev, born July 2 1935, died June 18 2020

Sergei Khrushchev, during his father’s years at the head of CPSU was said to have participated in the Soviet missile and space programme, working on cruise missiles for submarines, military and research spacecraft, moon vehicles and the “Proton,” the world’s largest space booster.

His father Nikita Khrushchev, a concealed revisionist in the ranks of the Communist Party, implemented a number of counter-revolutionary measures in the years after the death of J V Stalin. In defiance of the decisions of the 19^th party congress of the CPSU, measures were introduced in the economy which strengthened the role of the market and undermined socialism. Anti-Marxist ideas, such as a rejection of Lenin’s teachings on the state, handed political power to enemies of the proletarian state, and the foreign policy of the USSR raised political disagreements in the international communist movement to the level of disagreements between states, resulting in the break with China and Mao Zedong.

Nikita Khrushchev was deposed by his contemporaries not because of disagreements over the treacherous betrayal of Marxism-Leninism, but because of the calamitous way in which this about-turn was being made. In retirement Nikita Khrushchev worked on his memoirs, which his son edited after his death in 1971. These Memoirs are a lasting tribute to the political ignorance and petty mindedness of father and son, and should be read by all communists for an insight into the mindset of a lackey, a philistine, an intriguer.

The sight, in 1999, of Sergei Khrushchev raising his right hand to swear allegiance to the USA sums up a life given in the service of US imperialism. Khrushchev Jnr insisted that his father would have understood. “He was in the Communist Party because he believed it would be best for all of us. If, like me, he had seen that capitalism ended up working better, maybe he would have come to America, too.”[i]

[i] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/22/sergei-khrushchev-son-soviet-leader-nikita-ended-swearing-allegiance/

Cuba is Socialist – and so we will be!

Cuban ambassador to the UK, Comrade Teresita Vicente, speaks powerfully at the CPGB-ML meeting to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution held in Saklatvala Hall, Southall, West London on 5th November 2016.

Her full speech is now available to view in this video. Please watch and listen carefully to her words, and share her powerful message widely. You could not find a better antidote to the US election campaign!

The meeting, and comrade Teresita’s speech was reported in the Cuban media: http://misiones.minrex.gob.cu/es/articulo/celebrado-aniversario-99-de-la-gran-revolucion-socialista-de-octubre

Stalin and the USSR – myth and reality

“We have faced almost a century of all-out ideological war from the bourgeois camp and their petty-bourgeois agents. they are determined to neuter the revolutionary potential of the working-class, to erase the achievements of the people struggling and working for the benefit of the majority, and to obfuscate the path to socialism.”

What does Stalin mean today? Part Two

Comrades from Red Youth gave a presentation to the Stalin Society on Sunday, discussing what the vital lessons of the Russian revolution, Stalin’s role in building socialism, and what it means to us today.

The presentation from comrade Dan is reproduced below.

What does Stalin mean today? Part One

Comrades from Red Youth yesterday gave a presentation to the Stalin Society, discussing what the vital lessons of the Russian revolution, Stalin’s role in building socialism, and what it means to us today.

The presentation by comrade Corinne is reproduced below.