Twenty years ago, a tide of rebellion swept Eastern Europe, culminating in the fall of the Berlin Wall in November. Read SocialistWorker.org's series on the revolutions of 1989 that toppled regimes which called themselves socialist.
: Phil Gasper
The regimes of Eastern Europe that collapsed 20 years after a series of mass rebellions were the opposite of what we mean by socialism.
November 3, 2009
: Dennis Kosuth
Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
November 6, 2009
: Alan Maass
The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was one crest in a wave of revolt that overturned governments across half of Europe at the end of 1989.
November 12, 2009