Will there be a Third World War?
Ben Gliniecki outlines the possibility of a Third World War in our current day.
Imperialism and war
Comic Relief and the limits of charity
At best, humanitarian fundraisers are a sticking plaster over a festering wound. At worst, they are an active distraction from the real reasons behind global inequality and the need to radically transform society.
The Marxist position on immigration
The issue of immigration has been central to the Brexit debate. Unfortunately, some on the left have pandered to anti-immigration sentiments. Marxists must call for workers’ unity, organisation, and internationalism.
Will there be a Third World War?
One hundred years ago Europe was in the middle of a bloody world war. With tensions rising in the Middle East, the Korean peninsula, and the South China Sea – and given whose fingers are on red buttons all over the world – should we be worried about the possibility of a similar situation today?
Trotsky on the “United States of Europe”
We publish here two pieces written by Leon Trotsky – in 1917 and 1923 respectively – on the question of the “United States of Europe”. As Trotsky stresses, the only way forward for the working class of Europe is along the lines of a European-wide socialist revolution. As the capitalist European project unravels today, Trotsky’s analysis remains as relevant as ever.
Lenin and the National Question
In this article, first published in 2004, Rob Sewell deals with the important contribution Lenin made on the national question and how such a correct stand on this issue guaranteed the success of the Bolshevik Party in October 1917. The national question remains a key issue for Marxists in the current epoch of capitalist crisis.
Imperialism and the new Free Trade deals
The epoch of world growth fueled by globalisation is over. Two giant free trade deals are being thrashed out which would place the United States at the centre of its own strategically drawn up domain. But far from being a means to open up the world to a further intensification of trade and to liberate capitalism from its own fetters, these deals, engineered by US imperialism, represent protectionism masquerading as free trade.
Marxism and the Struggle Against Imperialism
It is nearly seven years since George Bush, the then president of the US, made his famous “New World Order” speech. This was in 1991. In the build-up to the Gulf War the main imperialist power on earth promised a world without wars, without dictatorships and, of course, a world firmly under the control of a single all-powerful world policeman–the US. After the fall of Stalinism, US imperialism really thought that the world would be firmly under their command and they would be able to dictate the destiny of each and every country. All conflicts in the world were to be solved through dialogue in a kind of “Pax Americana.” Now all these dreams have been reduced to rubble.