Leninists facing repression
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I don’t know about the authenticity of this report but, apparently, in late November 2025, Russian prosecutors demanded sentences of 20–24 years in a high‑security penal colony for 5 members of a Marxist study circle in Ufa, accusing them of “terrorism” simply for studying Lenin’s State and Revolution. This book has been labelled a “terrorist manual”.
This is quite extraordinary, if true. I know we don’t have any truck with Leninists, their Vanguardist ideas, and their promotion of state capitalism, but even so, this is a blatantly anti-democratic move.
I believe that “preaching communism” (state capitalism) has been criminalised in one or two countries in Eastern Europe (Poland?)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/22/uhte-d22.html
Russian court sentences members of Marxist circle to draconian prison terms
Clara Weiss@claraweiss_wsws
21 hours agoA Russian Federal Bailiffs Service employee patrols around the court building, which features the words “Palace ofof Justice on the front, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. [AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky]
A Russian military district court in Yekaterinburg has convicted five members of a Marxist circle in Ufa to draconian sentences of between 16 to 22 years in prison and high-security penal colonies for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Russian government through terrorist means. The case marks a significant intensification of the crackdown on democratic rights in Russia and attempts to vilify Marxism and any left-wing opposition to the Putin regime.The defendants were found guilty of having organized or participated in a terrorist association, having planned a violent seizure of power, of having seized weapons and explosives, as well as of having publicly justified or propagandized terrorism
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