To understand the fall of Afghanistan to Taliban rule which took place last year, we must understand the history of the 1978 Saur Revolution and why it threatened US imperialism. In this episode, Jorge Martin discusses the decades of imperialist meddling and how we can put an end to it.
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.
The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is a continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.
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.