In this talk at the SOAS Marxist Society, Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – looks at the growing gap between the rich and poor in society today, contrasting the analysis of Thomas Piketty – the French “rock star” economist – and Karl Marx as to why capitalism creates inequality and a concentration of wealth.
In this latest episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki outlines the economic basis of British imperialism and militarism today, and how communists can fight to overthrow imperialism.
50 years ago, after the long postwar boom, the world economy experienced its first truly global crisis. Falling output and spiralling inflation combined to devastate the working class. Today, capitalism faces similar turmoil. It must be overthrown.
In this podcast, Jack Tye Wilson explains Lenin and the Bolsheviks’ approach to the national question, the colonial revolutions, and the national question today, outlining the need for an internationalist class programme.