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In this talk from last year’s Marxist Winter School, “Marx was Right!”, Alan Woods – author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution” and editor of www.marxist.com – discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917 and defends the October Revolution, led by Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks, against the lies and slanders of the modern day bourgeois historians.
In this talk from the Marxist Winter School 2013, John Pickard – former editor of the Militant newspaper and author of “Behind the Myths: the Foundations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” – discusses the Marxist view of history, based on the dialectical and materialist philosophy of Marxism.
Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism and author of “Reformism or Revolution” – speaks at the UCLU Marxist society, where he provides a Marxist analysis of World War One and discusses the possibility of world war today.
Rob Sewell – editor of Socialist Appeal and author of “In the Cause of Labour” – looks back at the Great Crash of 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression, and asks what lessons we can learn today in terms of looking at the current crisis of capitalism.
Daniel Morley of the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board discusses the philosophy of dialectics, which looks at the laws of change in nature, society, and thought, and contrasts the dialectical philosophies of Marx and Hegel.
In this talk hosted by the UCLU Marxist Society, Fred Weston – editor of www.marxist.com, discusses the ideas, life, and legacy of Nelson Mandela, analysing the history of South Africa and Apartheid, and outlining the perspectives for class struggle in the country today.
Adam Booth explains the Marxist theory of the state, and how these are different from anarchist and reformist theories.
In this recording from the IMT Winter School 2013 “Marx was right!”, Marie Frederiksen of the Danish Marxist paper Socialistisk Standpunkt discusses the questions of women’s oppression and liberation, and provides a Marxist analyses of the women’s question and the feminist movement.
In the opening session of this year’s International Marxist Tendency Winter School, entitled “Marx was right”, Jorge Martin – editor of America Socialista, the Spanish language magazine of the IMT – discusses the current crisis of capitalism and analyses the revolutionary movements that have broken out across the globe as a result.
We here publish the video footage of the debate between Alan Woods – editor of www.marxist.com and author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution” – and Orlando Figes – Professor of History at Birkbeck University and author of “A People’s Tragedy” – on the true nature of the Russian Revolution, and what it meant for the people of Russia and the class struggle internationally.
Over 70 attended the freshers’ week meeting of the UCLU Marxists, where Fred Weston – editor of www.marxist.com – spoke on the topic “What is Capitalism? What is Socialism?”, analysing why there is crisis today, and outlining the potential alternative under a socialist society.
One of the great classics of Marxism is the book by Frederick Engels entitled “The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State”. In this book Engels applies the Marxist method of historical materialism to the earliest periods of pre-history to analyse the past and uncover the origins of the institutions we see today. Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, gives an introduction to the book and explains how class society came into existence.