Listen to Alan Woods give the closing
remarks at the Marxist Summer School in London on June 19th 2011. As Lenin
said, without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary
movement. This is all the more relevant at the present time, where from
the bourgeois economists to the left and right reformists, all but the
Marxists are at a loss to explain the current capitalist crisis, and as a
consequence, how to proceed.
From this year’s Revolution Festival, Peter Kwasiborski, introduces Shostakovich.
Stalin’s bureaucracy waged a campaign of hate against artists who defied their narrow doctrine of ‘Socialist Realism’. Dmitri Shostakovich’s ‘Anti-formalist Rayok’ lambasts these cultural crimes, and defends the spirit of cultural freedom unleashed by the October Revolution.
Lenin and Trotsky stand as two of the most slandered men in history. Whether from the bourgeois, or from the Stalinists, their ideas are constantly misappropriated. Stalinists have spent a century trying to divide Lenin and Trotsky. But was there really any difference between their ideas? In this talk, Olivia Ruadh, RCP Central Committee member, explains the real legacy of Lenin and Trotsky
Whatever you think of the Russian Revolution, it transformed the 20th century. For us, this event is the greatest in human history. Where the masses not only entered the scene of history but took their lives’ into their own hands. This incredible event is rich in lessons for how to overthrow capitalism today.