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In this fourth – and penultimate – part of his series on the Marxist conception of history, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – traces the history of feudalism from its rise to its inevitable downfall in the age of the bourgeois revolutions.
Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, civil war has broken out within the Party. It is clear to many that a split, at some stage, is inevitable. Rob Sewell looks at the case of the 1931 National Government, when Ramsay MacDonald led a right-wing split from the Labour Party to unite with the Tories and Liberals.
In the second part of his introduction to the Marxist – that is, materialist – view of history, Alan Woods discusses the early stages of humanity and society, and discusses how class society and private property emerged on the basis of the development of the productive forces.
We publish here the first part in a serialisation of a new work by Alan Woods, which explains the Marxist method of analysing history. The ultimate cause of all social change is to be found, not in the human brain, but in changes in the mode of production.
30 years ago, beginning on 24th January 1986, print workers at Murdoch’s printing presses began a year-long strike. Along with the Great Miners’ Strike, it was one of the most militant episodes of industrial action in Britain during the Thatcher years. Jim Brookshaw, a print worker at the time, recalls his experiences of the struggle.
With the recent debates in Parliament about the bombing of Syria, as well as the upcoming EU referendum and the waves of protest internationally, the question of what a socialist foreign policy could look like are high on the agenda. What kind of policies should a Corbyn-led Labour Party be putting forward?
Christmas, we are told, is a time of parties, feasts, and the giving of gifts. So it would seem, as Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced that he would be giving away some $45 billion of his wealth. Such philanthropic gestures, however, raise an obvious question: where do rich donors get all this wealth from in the first place?
At the recent Red October 2015 event, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – gave a talk on Marxism and Art. We publish here some thoughts on the topic by Kit MacDougall of the Glasgow Marxists, based on the discussion at Red October.
To commemorate Armistice Day – 11th November – Alan Woods analyses the factors behind the First World War – “The Great Slaughter” – and discusses the revolutionary alternative to imperialism and war today.
In these extracts from “Year One of the Russian Revolution”, published in 1930, Victor Serge explains how the events of 1917 reflected the revolutionary forces within society and outlines the key role of the Bolshevik Party and its leadership in the October Revolution, which took place 98 years ago.
To commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, we publish here a short speech by Alan Woods on Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece “October – Ten Days that Shook the World”.