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As David Cameron beat the war drum and Members of Parliament debated whether to commence airstrikes in Syria, Alan Woods – editor of www.marxist.com – discusses the Tory lies about the war, and looks at the scandalous behaviour of the Blairites towards Corbyn and their support for Cameron on the question of bombing.
Next week sees world leaders gather in Paris for the COP21 United Nations conference on climate change. In a recording from earlier this year, Shahrar Ali – deputy leader of the Green Party – and Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – discuss the capitalist causes of the climate crisis, and the way forward for humanity.
In these video and audio recordings, Alan Woods and Daniel Morley discuss the origins and factors behind the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, and the role of imperialism in creating this barbarity. How should workers and youth respond in the face of terrorism?
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.
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.
In this video from the International Marxist Tendency’s Red October weekend school, leading figures from the labour movement provide their analysis on the Corbyn movement, discussing how to defend the new Labour leader against the Tories, the Blairites, and the right-wing media, and how to fight for socialism in Britain and internationally.
In this talk from REVOLUTION 2015 – hosted by the Marxist Student Federation in London in June – Adam Booth, editor of www.socialist.net, explains the historical origins, evolution, and development of money, banking, and the modern financial system under capitalism. What is the socialist alternative?
In this video, Hamid Alizadeh – of the International Marxist Tendency and editor of the Iranian Marxist website www.mobareze.org – outlines the imperialist causes of war and poverty that are behind the current refugee crisis. Hamid explains how this refugee crisis is yet another demonstration of the crisis of European capitalism, and highlights how the instinctive response from workers and youth is for solidarity and internationalism, not racism, nationalism, and xenophobia.
In this video, Francesco Merli introduces a discussion on Marxism and the National Question at the recent World School of the International Marxist Tendency. Francesco analyses the origin of the nation state from a materialist perspective, and looks at the dialectical method that Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky took in approach to the question of nations, self-determination, and national liberation movements, in contrast to their peers in the First and Second Internationals.
On the 75th anniversary of Trotsky’s death at the hands of a Stalinist agent, we publish here a talk by Alan Woods – recorded at REVOLUTION 2015 – who discusses the life and revolutionary ideas of Leon Trotsky, the great Bolshevik leader and Marxist theoretician.
We publish here a video of a recent talk by Fred Weston – editor of www.marxist.com – recorded during the International Marxist Tendency World School 2015. In this introduction, Fred explains the background to the crisis in Greece, examining the contradictions at the heart of the European project, and looking at the way forward for workers and youth following the capitulation to austerity by the SYRIZA leadership.
In this video from the recent World School of the International Marxist Tendency, Alan Woods – editor of www.marxist.com – outlines the perspectives for world revolution, discussing the crisis of capitalism and the class struggles that have broken out in Europe, the Middle East, and the USA.