Opening this year’s Marxist Summer School, Fred Weston – editor of www.marxist.com – speaks on the perspectives for world revolution, highlighting the tremendous mass movements in Turkey and Brazil, and discussing the role of the youth, who are increasingly being radicalised by the crisis of capitalism and the devastating effects of this crisis.
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