Podcast

In this talk at the Southampton Marxist society, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism and author of Reason in Revolt: Marxism Philsophy and Science – discusses the philosophy of Marxism – dialectical materialism – and its application to the world of nature and science. Modern science – from chaos theory to evolution – demonstrates the correctness of the Marxist, dialectical method.

Fred Weston, editor of www.marxist.com – website of the International Marxist Tendency – speaks at the UCLU Marxist Society in London, discussing the events and processes taking place in the Middle East, from the Arab Revolutions in 2011, to the civil war in Syria, and the latest developments with Iraq, ISIS, and the Kurds.

At a recent meeting of the Sussex Marxists, Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – discusses the events surrounding the Scottish referendum and analyses the question of independence and nationalism, putting forward a Marxist perspective on the way forward for workers and youth in Scotland, Britain, and internationally.

In this audio from the first meeting of the new term for the UCLU Marxist Society, Fred Weston – editor of “In Defence of Marxism” – discusses the nature of the capitalist system, how it works, why it goes into crisis, and what the alternative is: the socialist transformation of society, based on a democratic and rational plan of production.

In this recent talk at the Marxist Philosophy Day School, Socialist Appeal supporter Julian Sharpe discusses the “The Frankfurt School” of philosophy, providing a Marxist analysis and critique of the various ideas associated with the School, including those of Adorno and Marcuse.

In this video from the recent International Marxist Schoo 2014, hosted by the UCLU Marxist Society and the International Marxist Tendency, John Dunn of the Justice for Mineworkers campaign discusses the events of Great Miners’ Strike of 1984/85 and the lessons for the labour movement today.

In this video, recorded at the recent International Marxist School in London, Alan Woods – editor of www.marxist.com – speaks about the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, discussing the causes behind the Great War, the interests of the different imperialist powers involved, and the role of imperialism in world geo-political relations today.

In this talk from a 2014 Marxist Philosophy Day School, Daniel Morley looks at the question of consciousness from a Marxist perspective and analyses one of the most complex of phenomena in nature – thought itself: what is consciousness? How does it arise? Where do our thoughts come from? And how do the mind and the material world relate to one another?

We publish here a recording of Fred Weston, editor of www.marxist.com, who spoke at the LSE Marxist society about the new book “Capital in the 21st Century” by the French academic Thomas Piketty. Fred provided a Marxist analysis of the rising inequality we see in society today, explaining the inherent contradictions within capitalism that lead to growing profits and accumulation of wealth at one end, and growing misery and poverty at the other.

In this talk at the Southampton Marxist Society, Ben Gliniecki – from the Editorial Board of Socialist Appeal – discusses the questions of neoliberalism and globalisation, examining the historical development of capitalism from the invisible hand of the free market to the state of enormous multinationals and imperialism that we see today.