Tensions are reaching boiling point in Zimbabwe, with the Army stepping in earlier this week and putting President Robert Mugabe under house arrest. It is clear that a power struggle is taking place to succeed the ageing dictator. Ben Morken in South Africa analyses the volatile situation opening up in Zimbabwe.
In this rally from the recent October Revolution festival, speakers from the British labour movement explain the lessons of the Russian Revolution and discuss the turbulent situation facing workers and youth in the UK today.
The United Nations’ annual climate change summit, COP23, is drawing to a close in Bonn, Germany. But, as Joe Russell explains, such summits have been shown to generate little other than a lot of hot air. Decisive, radical action is needed. To combat climate change, revolutionary change is needed.
Earlier this month, Corbyn’s Labour Party tabled a motion to lower the voting age to 16. Unsurprisingly, the Tories (who have almost no support amongst teenagers) opposed this. Thomas Soud of the Warwick Marxists outlines why the voting age should be lowered – but also why voting alone is not enough. Above all, we need to get organised.
Thousands of students marched through central London today to demand “free education now”. With Corbyn promising to abolish fees, and with the current Tory government in crisis, the prospect of free education has become a tangible possibility within our generation’s reach.
Tomorrow, Wednesday 15 November, there will be a demonstration in London calling for free education. Marxist Students will be there and we hope as many people as possible will be able to come along too. We want to see free education, full living grants for all students, and an end to education cuts.
Gordon Brown has released his autobiography, entitled My Life, Our Times. In this, and in other recent interviews, the former prime minister has acknowledged the failings of his government and that of New Labour more generally. Unlike the out-of-touch Tony Blair, Adam Booth writes, Brown has sensed which way the wind is blowing politically in Britain.
Continuing our series of articles and videos celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, answers the myths and distortions put forward by bourgeois academic and historian Orlando Figes in his recently re-released book, A People’s Tragedy.
We continue our week of articles and videos celebrating the centenary anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution with this video talk by Alan Woods.
No other event in human history has been the subject of more distortions, falsehoods and fabrications than the Russian Revolution. We publish here Alex Grant’s list of the 10 biggest downright lies about Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the 1917 October Revolution – and the truth behind the myths.
The battle between the Spanish state and the Catalan independence movement is not over. We publish here two articles about the fight for a Catalan republic: the first, an analysis by comrades in Lucha de Clases (Spanish section of the IMT); the second, a report by Jorge Martin about the huge general strike seen in Catalonia on this week, on 8th November.
From the beginning, the regional Labour leadership in Wales has been firmly against Jeremy Corbyn and the programme that he stands for. As a result of their Blairite approach, the Welsh Labour leaders have risked losing the party’s support amongst workers and youth in Wales. Maciej Krzymieniecki from Swansea West CLP looks at the changes needed in Welsh Labour if it is to offer a way forward for ordinary people.