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The apologists of capitalism constantly assert the myth that ‘the working class no longer exists’; that ‘we are all middle class now’. In fact, the working class has never been stronger. What is missing is revolutionary leadership.
Socialist Appeal comrade Nicholas Baldion is amongst the contenders for this year’s John Moores Painting Prize – the winner of which will be announced later this week. We spoke to Nicholas about his artistic work and his communist politics.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile, when General Pinochet and the military – backed by US imperialism – overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Revolutionaries must fully absorb the lessons of these tragic events.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Sarah Vedrovitch discusses the United Front, a tactic adopted by the Communist International to connect the communists to the broader working class.
The Dublin Lockout began 110 years ago, when the bosses joined forces to smash militant trade unionism in Ireland. Socialists today must learn from the inspiring example of James Connolly and Jim Larkin, and build a revolutionary leadership.
In 1963, activists in Bristol organised a mass campaign against discriminatory employment practices on the city’s buses. Decades later, racism in the workplace remains rife. To fight oppression, we need militancy, organisation, and class unity.
In this talk, Jack Tye Wilson provides a Marxist response to Stalin’s “theory” of ‘socialism in one country’, and outlines the disastrous consequences of the Comintern’s abandonment of internationalism.
21 August marks the anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s death, following an attack by a Stalinist agent. This article by Alan Woods, originally published in 2000, commemorates this revolutionary titan who preserved the authentic traditions of Marxism and Bolshevism for future generations.
As part of his unfinished notes on the Dialectics of Nature, Friedrich Engels wrote an insightful analysis of the material factors that drove the evolutionary development of mankind. We publish here an introduction to this fascinating text.
An ongoing inquiry into accusations of extrajudicial murders by British Special Forces in Afghanistan shines a light on the crimes of western imperialism. The fight for justice must be a fight to overthrow this entire barbaric system.
Critics of Marxism often suggest that scientific socialism paints a mechanical view of history, without any role for individuality or free will. Daniel Morley discusses the question of necessity and chance, and the need for revolutionary leadership.
In the third part of our podcast series on the lessons of the Communist International, Thomas Soud covers the ultra-left mistakes made by the young forces of communism, and how Lenin and the Comintern corrected this “infantile disorder”.