In the last week, after months of strike action on Southern rail against job cuts and threats to health and safety, ASLEF union leaders and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) management reached an “agreement” to end the dispute, with the support of the TUC. If this deal is accepted, it will represent a harsh defeat for railway workers.
In the beginning of a series of videos celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism, www.marxist.com – examines the lies and slanders used to attack the Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. The apologists of capitalism try to comfort themselves with the thought that the collapse of the USSR signified the demise of socialism. But what failed in Russia was not socialism but a caricature of socialism. Alan Woods replies to the lies and slanders thrown against the Russian Revolution.
In the beginning of a series of videos celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism, www.marxist.com – examines the lies and slanders used to attack the Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky.
We publish here a further set of reports and videos from the enormous protests against Trump and his reactionary policies – mass demonstrations that have erupted in cities and towns across the country, with thousands of radicalised students and young workers coming onto the streets against Trump and the Tories, and in solidarity with migrants and the oppressed everywhere.
With just over one week to go until the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation, we publish here a video and article about the life and ideas of Lenin. Join us at this year’s MSF conference to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution and discuss how we can fight for revolution today!
Every action provokes an equal and opposite reaction. This fundamental law of physics was vividly displayed across the UK last night, as tens of thousands of youth took to the streets in cities across the country to protest against Donald Trump’s #MuslimBan and the complicity of the subservient Tory government.
In just a few days, Trump has set his stamp on US and world politics, economics, and relations. Already, his Islamophobic, anti-immigrant policies – in particular – have sparked mass protests across America and internationally. This is what is meant when we talk of sharp and sudden changes being on the order of the day.
In this talk from the REVOLUTION! 2016 weekend school, Hamid Alizadeh of the International Marxist Tendency discusses the history of philosophy in Ancient Greece, looking at the early developments in terms of dialectics and materialism – the foundations to the revolutionary philosophy of Marxism: dialectical materialism.
As a result of the dispute between railway workers and Southern Rail this winter, the question of railway nationalisation has come up in public consciousness again. John Russell of the UEA Marxists puts forward the demand for immediate renationalisation of the railways without compensation.
In the past year, the Rent Strike Collective has gained momentum and popularity across the UK, with even the NUS supporting student rent strikes, along with the Radical Housing Network. Alex Sheehan from the Reading Marxists looks at the tactic of the rent strike and the way in which this can be linked to the wider struggle for socialism.
On 9th January, Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of the Stormont Assembly in Belfast, resigned in protest against the ongoing “cash for ash” scandal. As the Assembly was unable to elect a new Deputy, new elections have been triggered, as required under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, adding yet more fuel to the fire for the political establishment in Westminster and Belfast.