The weekend of the 21st and 22nd of April saw Socialist Appeal hold their annual National Conference. Delegates and visitors from all around Britain attended, including a high number of young people. On Saturday the Youth Commission met to discuss the past year and the tasks facing them in the next period.
Wellred bookshop has published, in three volumes, Trotsky's classic The History of the Russian Revolution. It is fitting that Wellred has issued the book on the 90th anniversary of these world-shattering events by one of its leading participants.
At the end of the Second World War the Labour Party was elected into office, a clear rejection of Churchill and his anti-working class policies. But the statements of the Labour leaders revealed that they intended to continue with capitalism. The British ruling class understood they could use these leaders, discredit them and then bring back the Tories. Ted Grant warned the Labour leaders that this is what would happen.
Socialists have always been opposed to all forms of discrimination, not only because it is unfair to a part of the working class, but because discrimination divides us as a class and weakens us as a result.
Our regular columnist Elmer Whitefeather is back and keeping us up-to-date with the broad, and the particular, political developments north of the border.
Video Interview with John McDonnell MP, who talks about his campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and how his policies differ from that of New Labour. John talks about Socialism of the 21st century, and the role of the Labour Party in workers’ struggle.
Michael Roberts takes a look at the role played by the US Federal Reserve Bank and what its chairman, Ben Bernanke, has had to say about the inequality of income in capitalist society.
Over the Easter period Channel 4 showed the film 'The Passion of the Christ' documenting the life of Jesus Christ. Here we re-publish the original review and critique of the film by Rob Sewell, which showed the revolutionary origins of Christianity.
Behind the term "private equity" hides good old "asset stripping". It is not about making things. It's about making money from money, buying up companies, stripping them and selling them off with a mountain of debt. Or to use a simpler term, it's capitalism.
Marxist International Review – Special Edition on China, now available!
25 years ago Thatcher exploited the crisis of the Falkland Islands to the Tory government's advantage. What position should the Marxists have taken? Here we provide an analysis by Ted Grant published at the time that answered this question.
Sacked Amicus Press Officer and deposed former editor of the Amicus Unity Gazette, Des Heemskerk, has won his tribunal case for unfair dismissal from his job in the union.