On Thursdays, the MSF is putting out theoretical articles discussing different elements of Marxist theory. Read more here.
Last Thursday (22nd April) was the anniversary of Lenin’s birth. Read this article to learn more of his life and ideas!
What are the true origins of Christianity? This article looks at the reality of how this religion came about – from the standpoint of class forces and the material developments of society.
In recent weeks, the murder of Sarah Everard and the subsequent protests have once again exposed the brutality of the police. The mood on the streets shows that we have barely had time to process since the Black Lives Matter protests. More and more we are seeing the real role Read more…
“To alter the position of woman at the root is possible only if all the conditions of social, family, and domestic existence are altered.” (Trotsky, Women and the Family, p. 45.) Capitalism is in a blind alley. The crisis of capitalism on a world scale falls with special severity on Read more…
In recent years the struggle against gender oppression and sexual orientation-based discrimination has developed into mass movements in many countries. We have seen large-scale protests expressing anger and rebellion – that had been building up for years and decades – against an exasperating interference of a system that not only Read more…
This week’s #TheoryThursday deals with the question of what the state represents under capitalist society, how the working class can win power and the attitude Marxists should have towards bourgeois parliaments.
For most people, the word Philosophy will immediately bring to mind something like the image of a university seminar room full of intellectual types deeply engaged in high level discussion. It appears as something obscure, reserved for only the most knowledgeable people, and – more importantly – it appears as Read more…
We re-publish here an article written by our comrade Andy from Goldsmiths Marxists in 2017, which outlines the radical history of tenants’ struggles in Britain, from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. While the ideologists of capitalism maintain that we have come a long way since the days of slum tenements, the reality is that poor housing conditions are an everyday experience for many workers and youth and Britain. And, with the current housing crisis pushing many students into organising rent strikes up and down the country, there’s no better time to reflect on the lessons passed down to us from the struggles of the past.
Trotsky’s advice to young Marxists: “It is better to read one book and read it well; it is better to master a little bit at a time and master it thoroughly. Only in this way will your powers of mental comprehension extend themselves naturally.”
We republish here a transcript of Lenin’s speech given at the Third Congress of the Russian Young Communist League in 1920, which sheds light on what a communist education consists of, and how young revolutionaries should link their education to their practical activities.
Rob Sewell commemorates Engels’ 200th birthday, by looking at the vital contribution that he made to developing the ideas of Marxism, for which we owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.
Dialectical materialism is our “sharpest weapon”, as Engels explained, against the misery of class society.” Read our latest #TheoryThursdays article on Marx’s revolution in philosophy here!