Capitalism in crisis can no longer afford its old institutions. This is causing conflict and increased tension in the bourgeois state, which must be painfully reorganised in order to correspond with this epoch of austerity. In short, the British capitalist state is eating away at itself, causing greater instability both in Britain and on a global scale.
Sixteen years since Chavez came to power, the Bolivarian revolution has still not been completed. A revolution cannot be carried out partially. Either it goes all the way in removing capitalism once and for all, or it goes backward and is possibly defeated. We publish here two articles from Jorge Martin and Alan Woods, which analyse what needs to be done to complete the Venezuelan Revolution.
In recent weeks, the Tories and their pals in the boardrooms of England have been upping the pressure over Labour’s proposed Mansion Tax. This is a tax which would affect people with properties worth more than £2 million pounds; in other words this is a tax which is targeting the rich. But would the Mansion Tax be enough to reverse the Tory Coalition’s austerity?
So-called “insurgents” are surrounding the walls of Westminster. The likely result will be another hung parliament. Whichever parties form a government, the only certainty is that they will face a crisis from day one, with serious implications for the class struggle in Britain.
To celebrate International Working Women’s Day 2015, Natasha Sorrell from the Sheffield Marxists discusses women’s role in revolution throughout history. Alongside Natasha’s talk, we reproduce several quotations from Lenin, Kollontai and others on the same subject.
In this recent talk at the LSE SU Marxist Society, Francesco Merli – from the editorial board of In Defence of Marxism – discusses the life and ideas of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian revolutionary and founder of the Italian Communist Party.
Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, explains the significance of the recent retreat by the SYRIZA government, highlights the intense contradictions that remain within the Eurozone, and analyses the way forward for workers and youth in Greece and across the whole of Europe in the fight to end austerity.
This Sunday, on 8th March, is International Women’s Day. More than one-hundred years since the first International Working Women’s day in 1911, what is the situation for women in Britain in today? Seven years after the onslaught of the financial crisis, working class women remain oppressed due to their gender and exploited due to their class.
Two years have passed since the death of Hugo Chávez on 5th March 2013. His death was a great loss for the cause of freedom, socialism and humanity. To fight for socialism in Venezuela and throughout the world: that is the only way forward; the only way to honour the memory of Hugo Chávez.
Sussex Marxists reviews Selma, a film that has been praised as “heartbreaking” and “inspiring”; the story of Martin Luther King’s leadership of the Selma to Montgomery marches, poignantly expressed under the backdrop of unrest in Ferguson. But is this really a film that champions the black struggle in the United States?
As a new spree of terrorist attacks unravels with increasing frequency, the menace of Islamic fundamentalist terror seems to be beyond the control of the ruling class. The claims of the political elite, of “uniting against terrorism” and for “national unity”, have proved to be boastful absurdities and hypocritical deceptions.
Since the start of the Con-Dem Coalition, the Public and Civil Service Trade Union (PCS) has been at the forefront of the trade union fight back against austerity and attacks on the wider welfare state. Now, however, the Tories are attacking the union’s very existence – by attempting to restrict the lifeblood of its members’ subscriptions.