For over 80 years, an entire industry distorted the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. While Trump renews the charge against communism, the republication of Alan Woods and Ted Grant’s ‘Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For’ could not have come at a better time.

War always accompanies periods of revolutionary turmoil like our own. The coming period will include inter-imperialist wars, national wars, civil wars, and class wars. Communists must be theoretically prepared to make sense of this maelstrom.

Once again, the crisis of the prison system is back in the headlines, following Burnham’s early prisoner release fiasco. With intense overcrowding, staff morale in crisis, and a probation service at breaking point, this situation is intractable under capitalism.

Marx and Engels didn’t develop their ideas in a vacuum. They built on centuries of philosophical development, including the revolutionary ideas of the English materialists. Georgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas HobbesGeorgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke challenged religious explanations of the world and helped lay the foundations for modern science and, ultimately, Marxism.

Fuelled by geopolitical shocks and the breakdown of globalisation, the world capitalist system is wracked with instability and uncertainty, which is itself contributing towards the economic crisis. What does this mean for the class struggle?

Around 70 years ago, the Mau Mau Uprising was under way. To suppress this movement and hold back the tide of Kenyan independence, the British imperialists committed unimaginable atrocities. These crimes were hidden for decades and, to this day, the struggle against imperialism in Kenya continues.