Revolutionaries in Nepal honor Stalin
This month, on December 21st, 2009, revolutionaries around the world will mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade J. V. Stalin, who along with Lenin, led the Great October Socialist Revolution to victory. After Lenin’s death, Stalin consolidated the victory of the USSR and strengthened the Soviet Party, beat back the counter-revolutionary Trotskyites and Bukharinites, paved the way for socialist construction and agricultural collectivization, and led the heroic Red Army in defeating fascism in World War II.
As Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese revolution said,
“We can be sure that his birthday will evoke warm and affectionate congratulations from the hearts of all revolutionary people throughout the world who know of the occasion. Congratulating Stalin is not a formality. Congratulating Stalin means supporting him and his cause, supporting the victory of socialism, and the way forward for mankind which he points out, it means supporting a dear friend. For the great majority of mankind today are suffering, and mankind can free itself from suffering only by the road pointed out by Stalin and with his help.” (Stalin, Friend of the Chinese People)
Here are some articles by various revolutionaries from around the world highlighting Cde. Stalin’s contributions:
- Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders, William Z. Foster (Communist Party of the United States)
- On Stalin, W. E. B. Du Bois (leader of the African American national movement)
- To You Beloved Comrade, Paul Robeson (African American actor/singer/activist)
- The Victory of the National Policy of Lenin and Stalin, Lavrenti Beria (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
- Comrade Stalin, Leader of Progressive Mankind, Georgy Malenkov (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
- The Great Theoretician of Communism, Dmitry Manuilsky (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
- Stalin, Leader of Peoples, Man of the Masses, Dolores Ibárruri (La Passionaria) (Communist Party of Spain)
- Stalin, Friend of the Chinese People, Mao Zedong (Communist Party of China)
- On the Question of Stalin, Mao Zedong (Communist Party of China)
- With Stalin, Enver Hoxha (Party of Labor of Albania)
- Tribute to Stalin, Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Independence Movement)
- Stalin and the Political Economy of Socialism, Vijay Singh (Revolutionary Democracy, India)
- Fifty years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Ludo Martens (Workers Party of Belgium)
- Stalin’s Legacy, James Klugmann (Communist Party of Great Britain)
- Stalin and the Chinese Revolution, Harpal Brar (Communist Party of Great Britain – Marxist-Leninist)
- Lenin and Stalin on the Relationship of Democratic and Socialist Revolutions in Colonial and Semicolonial Countries, Jose Maria Sison (founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines)
- The Record of Stalin, Armando Liwanag (Communist Party of the Philippines)
You are right, revolutionaries around the world will mark Stalin’s birthday. Among a large section of the leftists in the former USSR and Eastern Europe there is a common understanding that Stalin was a leader who contributed allot.
I recall traveling in China during the mid 70′s, and Stalin was everywhere. His books were sitting on tables in the Shanghai airport, and his picture (along with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao) was on the wall in every school. A portrait of Stalin – 2 stories high – was in Tienanmen Square.
The point of this is that the Chinese communists understand the real contributions made by Stalin.
By the way, your blog is great.
Mukwa, thanks for your comment. It is really interesting to hear about your experience in China in the 1970s, and so I looked around and found a great picture of Lenin’s and Stalin’s portraits in Tiananmen Square: http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/lenin-stalin-tiananmen.jpg
Make no mistake – we’ll be celebrating Stalin’s birthday in Birmingham, the centre of England! Our comrades are from England, India, Ireland and Turkey – we all share our belief in Marxism Leninism, our faith in the CPGB-ML and our love of Josef Stalin! Happy Birthday to the leader of the poor and oppressed peoples!
Viva Stalin!
In ricordo del grande Maestro del Proletariato Internazionale 21 dicembre 1878 Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvili
long live Stalin
greeting from China-hong kong
Here is the article published in honor of the 130th anniversary of the birth of the great Bolshevik leader I.V. Stalin by “Rizospastis”, the organ of the C.C of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
http://www1.rizospastis.gr/page.do?publDate=20/12/2009&id=11622&pageNo=11&direction=1
The article is followed by excerpts from Stalin’s speech in the conference of Marxist theoreticians on the agricultural issue (27th December 1929, Works, vol. 12).
[The Greek language will make it unreadable to most, but I thought I should add it to this site for posterity reasons]