In this talk from the 2014 International Marxist Winter School, Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – explores the revolutionary history of scientific development and explains how modern scientific theories confirm the Marxist philosophical outlook of dialectical materialism. In turn, by applying a dialectical and materialist approach, Marxists can highlight the contradictions facing modern day physics and help point the way forward for scientific progress.
We publish here three reports from leading members of some of the Marxist Student Federation’s newest societies: those in Kent, Durham and Swansea. These comrades give their personal impressions of the recent Marxist Student Federation national conference and of the MSF as a whole.
We publish here two recent statements from the Communist Tendency of Syriza, which provide a detailed analysis of the latest developments taking place in the negotiations between the leadership of the new Syriza-led government and the representatives of the Troika – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF.
On Sunday 15th February, an estimated 2000 people assembled at Trafalgar Square in London, in solidarity with the Greek people against the Troika. The demonstration, called by the Greek Solidarity Campaign and SYRIZA London, was linked to a wider international mobilisation across Europe, with the message everywhere of “your struggle is our struggle – lead the way!”
Twelve months on from the founding conference, the Marxist Student Federation continues to go from strength to strength and continues to educate students in the ideas of Marxism. Last weekend, on Saturday 14th February, over 80 representatives from around 25 Marxist societies across the country attended second annual national conference of the Marxist Student Federation.
Eurozone finance ministers meet today, Monday 16th February, to try and reach an agreement on how to deal with Greek debt. Fred Weston analyses the pressures facing Tsipras and the Syriza-led government: the pressure of the Troika to continue with austerity, on the one hand; and the pressure of the masses opposing further attacks on their living standards, on the other.
Today, Monday 16th February, 170 workers on the M25 motorway are taking 24-hour strike action. Ben Gliniecki of Unite Community (personal capacity) discusses the latest strike by transport workers in Britain, and the way forward for workers who are being made to pay for the crisis of capitalism.
This week revelations have sparked an explosive scandal: HSBC, the UK’s largest bank, has been caught facilitating industrial-scale tax evasion, committed by some of its wealthiest clients. This latest episode has yet again shone a light on the murky world of capitalism and exposed the Tory politicians who defend their rich fraudster friends.
In this video from an event hosted by the Cambridge Marxist Society, in association with SYRIZA Cambridge and PODEMOS Cambridge, three speakers discuss the relevance of the rise of SYRIZA in Greece and PODEMOS in Spain in the wake of the recent elections in Greece. Amongst these speakers, Arturo Rodriguez Zoffmann of the Oxford Marxist Society and PODEMOS Oxford puts forward a Marxist analysis of the Euro Crisis and the emergence of PODEMOS as a powerful force within Spanish politics.
Newly released figures show that the Chinese economy in 2014 experienced its lowest economic growth since 1990. Such figures illustrate the beginning of the end for China’s ‘miraculous’ boom, as the reality of capitalist crisis is seeping through to the world’s largest exporting economy.
The profile of the Marxist Student Federation is rising, with growing numbers in the universities being radicalised by events and looking for a way out of the crisis. The activities and impact of the Marxist societies on campuses across the country is now being noticed in the student press, with a series of articles in various student newspapers highlighting the work of the MSF.
At the beginning of January, 500,000 miners in the nationalised coal industry in India went on strike against governmental plans to privatise coal mining. This monumental show of strength is indicative both of the tensions within Indian society and the pressure that is being brought to bear on the leadership of the working class to put up a fight.