Adam Booth, writer for www.socialist.net, discusses the Marxist conception of history, based on the dialectical materialist method. Adam contrasts the materialist method of historical analysis against the idealist view of history, and explores questions such as the role of the individual history.
The struggle against South African apartheid is a source of inspiration across the world. However, the understanding of how it was overthrown is limited, especially in the West. With the struggle to free Palestine, this topic holds a particular importance, as many on the left explain their support for the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement on the lessons of South Africa. But what does this period really tell us about how our struggle today can be successful?
In this talk from Revolution Festival 2024, Fiona Lali explains the view of communists on this vital struggle.
The rule of the bourgeoisie was born in revolution against the feudal order, falsifying the preaching of gradualism and its supposed omnipotence. This epoch demonstrates just as the bourgeois order arose through violent upheaval, so too will its inevitable downfall.
The genocide of Palestinians over the last 2 years has become a lightening rod for all the accumulated anger in society. People have been exposed to the bombing of hospitals, videos of mothers pulling their babies from the rubble and the vile response from governments internationally – that Israel ‘has the right to defend itself’. Since October 7th 2023, millions across the world have come out to defend Palestine with demonstrations and encampments. It is clear that more is needed. The general strike in Italy has shown the way forward. Speaking at a meeting of the RCP in Central London, Fiona Lali lays out how the Palestine movement can be successful and the job of communists in achieving this.