In the past couple of weeks, unprecedented events had been unfolding in Afghanistan, as hundreds of thousands of people protest in the streets of Kabul. This is the reflection of massive discontent with the neverending American occupation as well as with religious fundamentalism.
In this talk from the International Marxist Tendency’s World School 2015, Niklas Albin Svensson discusses the degeneration of the Socialist International, the betrayal of the Social Democratic leaders in the face of imperialist war, and the Zimmerwald Conference, where the idea for the Third – Communist – International was born.
On 10th November, the 11-day old government of the right-wing coalition in Portugal was ousted by the left-wing parties in parliament. The scene is set for a period of political and social turbulence and struggle in Portugal. Nina Christou reports from Lisbon.
The campaign to discredit and sabotage Jeremy Corbyn has reached new levels of absurdity, following his “disrespectful” bow at the Remembrance Day service. Central to their attacks has been Corbyn’s opposition to Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons system. James Kilby looks at the issues behind Trident and nuclear weapons.
Yesterday evening, November 11, Labour Young Socialists held a London-wide rally at which around 100 students and young workers assembled to discuss what left-wing youth should do now that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party. The Marxists highlighted the need to defend Andrew Fisher and other Corbyn supporters who have been attacked by the Labour bureaucracy.
To commemorate Armistice Day – 11th November – Alan Woods analyses the factors behind the First World War – “The Great Slaughter” – and discusses the revolutionary alternative to imperialism and war today.
According to recent comments by General Sir Nicholas Houghton during Remembrance Sunday, we should be “worried” if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister. These words are just the latest in a series of “political” statements to be made by leading members of the UK armed forces – a warning of what to expect in the future.
Ben Gliniecki reviews “Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age”, an exhibition currently running at the Science Museum in London, which is an extraordinary collection of Soviet spacecraft and artefacts – a testament to the fantastic power of a planned economy.
On Friday 6th November, Andrew Fisher – a longstanding Labour left-winger, recently appointed as a political advisor to Jeremy Corbyn – was suspended from the Labour Party. These latest actions by the Labour Party bureaucracy are a clear provocation and attack against Corbyn and his supporters.
In these extracts from “Year One of the Russian Revolution”, published in 1930, Victor Serge explains how the events of 1917 reflected the revolutionary forces within society and outlines the key role of the Bolshevik Party and its leadership in the October Revolution, which took place 98 years ago.
To commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, we publish here a short speech by Alan Woods on Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece “October – Ten Days that Shook the World”.
In a special Bonfire Night talk at the Sussex Marxist society, Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com and author of Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science and Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution, discusses the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and its legacy.