Originally published by the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP-CPSU) In 2025, it will be 120 years since the day that forever entered the history of our country. The first Russian revolution began in the strike on St. Petersburg on January 9, 1905, when the tsarist troops shot at a peaceful demonstration of gullible workers. The […]

This video describes how the Soviet Union used their banking system to fund various industries and what the overall structure of the Socialist Republic’s financial institutions were like. The Soviet Union, through the implementation of each respective five year plan, was able to allocate resources to industries based on need and growing technology at the

The FIR follows with great concern the military escalation in the Ukraine war in recent days. In view of 1000 days of war in Ukraine, FIR believes that it is urgently necessary in the interests of the people in the war zone to agree a ceasefire and begin negotiations. The telephone conversation between German Chancellor

Letter to Workers World from Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich. Translation by Steve Gillis. Dear comrades, We would like to first draw your attention, comrades, to the fact that we, communists and anti-fascists, brothers Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich, were arrested for our many years of “Komsomol [Communist Youth League] for Peace” actions, which we

On April 3, 2011, Professor Grover Furr gave a talk on his book “Khrushchev Lied”. In this book, Dr. Furr proves the falsity of each of Khrushchev’s accusations against Comrade Stalin made in his “Secret Speech” to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956.

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Sergei Skvortsov laid flowers at a memorial plaque in honor of one of the founders of the GDR, Walter Ulbricht. Below is the text of his speech: Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the proclamation

Originally published by Consortium News As the drums  of war beat louder and the warmongering rhetoric becomes shrill, a group of Russian and American activists assembled in downtown Moscow to replant yet again the symbolic U.S.-Russia friendship birch tree that was initially planted nine years ago. It has had to be replaced several times as

Paul Robeson addressed the banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York, on November 10, 1949, on the occasion of the celebration of the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet Union: I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to join more than half the people of the world

The FIR recalls how 90 years ago the USSR made a contribution to strengthening the international community in an escalating international situation when it joined the League of Nations on September 18, 1934. The League of Nations, created in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles following the defeat of the German Empire and the Central

Comrades and friends,  the latest edition of the US Friends of the Soviet People bulletin is out. You can view it below as well as in our updated Bulletin section which includes many of our past work to 1998. Warm regards, Board of Directors,US Friends of the Soviet People.