Last week saw the 2015 World School of the International Marxist Tendency, with around 270 visitors attending the Italian-hosted event from over 30 different countries, coming from as far and wide as Canada, Venezuela, South Africa, Morocco, and Pakistan. The school was testament to the enthusiasm and strength of ideas within the IMT.
Jeremy Corbyn has proposed the abolition of student fees and the reintroduction of maintenance grants for all students. Harry Bark, of the Leeds Marxists and Marxist Students for Corbyn, provides a socialist perspective on the question of free education and equality.
We publish here two recent letters that we have received from Socialist Appeal supporters in Coventry, which outline and explain the enthusiasm amongst workers and youth for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership campaign. As one comrade writes, Jeremy’s campaign and potential victory represents a “big step forward for our class”.
Following on from mass rallies in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Coventry in the past week, over two thousand people gathered in Camden, London, last night to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak about his alternative to austerity. It is clear that a new political movement is being forged, providing a point of reference for workers and youth.
Following on from the backing offered by Unite, FBU, RMT, and ASLEF unions, Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership has now also received the support of the CWU (postal workers) and TSSA unions, as well as that of UNISON, the big public sector trade union. The unions now need to mobilise all their members to vote for Jeremy.
Frank Cooper takes a detailed look at the scandal of blacklisting, in which thousands of workers and trade unionists have been left with a permanent scar on their employment record, due to a clandestine campaign of the bosses with the help of the capitalist state. But workers are now fighting back against the blacklisters.
In the second part of his analysis on the Greek Revolution and Civil War, Arturo Rodriguez examines the role of British imperialism and of the Stalinist leadership of the Communists. Written before the recent capitulation of the Syriza leadership to the demands of the Troika, Arturo looks at the tasks facing revolutionaries in Greece today.
Arturo Rodriguez of the Oxford Marxists looks back at the events surrounding the Battle of Athens, one of the most dramatic episodes of the Greek Revolution and Civil War over 70 years ago. With Greece once again in the midst of revolutionary developments, we analyse the lessons of 1944.
The labour movement was out in force at Tolpuddle, Dorset on Sunday 19th July, with an exuberant march and a greatly increased attendance. The highlight of the festival was a speech by Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing Labour leadership candidate, whose campaign and anti-austerity stance is rapidly gaining support.
Since last week’s barbaric terrorist attack in the Turkish town of Suruc, the situation in Turkey has dramatically escalated. Under the guise of joining the war on ISIS, Erdogan has launched a major military operation against the the PKK as well as arresting hundreds of Kurdish and Turkish leftist activists.
We are publishing here the introduction by Alan Woods to Felix Morrow’s Marxist classic Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain, which provides a brief analysis of the reasons for the defeat of the Spanish Revolution of 1931-37, while also drawing the lessons for today.
Steve Jones examines the Poliziottesco genre of Italian cinema, an all but forgotten period of film, which provides a vivid portrayl of the corruption, crime, and political scandal that gripped Italy in the 1970s.