Ireland: Solidarity with climate activists on trial!
Irish activists Orla and Zac are facing trial – and possible severe punishment – this week for protesting against government inaction over climate change.
Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle
Today is the anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain. But what did this mean? Here, Rosa Luxemburg looks at the question of women’s rights and how it relates to the class struggle. Read her thought here in women’s suffrage and class struggle. “Why are there no organizations for working women in Germany? Why do we hear so little about the working women’s movement?” With these questions, Emma Ihrer, Read more…
The Battle of Stalingrad – How the Soviet Union defeated the Nazis
Today markers the 79th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, with the surrender of German troops, a key turning point in the Second World War, where about 800,000 German and Axis troops were either killed or captured, including the entire German Sixth Army and its commander-in-chief – a shattering blow to Hitler. The Battle of Stalingrad was where that the might of the Wehrmacht was finally halted after a Read more…
NewVic strike continues: Students and workers unite!
Teachers at Newham Sixth Form college in east London are continuing their strike against overwork, management bullying, and academisation. Meanwhile, students are mobilising in support of staff. We must build the fightback to defend education. For over four weeks now, National Education Union (NEU) members have been on strike at Newham Sixth Form College in Plaistow, also known as NewVic. The college’s teachers and staff are striking over unacceptable working conditions; a Read more…
Lessons of Spain: intro by Ralph Lee and Ted Grant
Today marks 85 years since the Catalan Offensive, the tragic end of the Spanish Civil War. Here we republish an introduction to Trotsky’s pamphlet, “The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning” (1937), written by Ted Grant in collaboration with Ralph Lee while they were in the Workers’ International League: a predecessor to the International Marxist Tendency. Ted and Ralph’s introduction was praised by Trotsky himself in a letter to the WIL in 1938, which Read more…
Lenin’s Last Struggle
Today marks 98 years since Lenin’s death. To mark the occasion, we are republishing this article which was originally written to commemorate the Lenin centenary in 1970. The early symptoms of bureaucratic degeneration in Russia were already noted by Lenin in the last two years of his politically active life. He spent his last months fighting against these reactionary tendencies, leaving behind a vital heritage of struggle in his last letters and Read more…
Model Motion – Support the NUS walkout!
We encourage all Marxist Societies across the country to pass this motion. Students and workers: unite and fight!
The invasion of Gaza: what did it mean? – Part Two
The so-called Peace Process is dead. It will be not be revived until the Israeli army has done its bloody work in Gaza thoroughly. Ultimately, both Jews and Arabs must have the right to live in peace and control their own destinies in a homeland of their own. It is easy to state this aim, but not so easy to say how it can be achieved. In the concluding part of his Read more…
The invasion of Gaza: what did it mean? – Part One
On this day in 2009, Israel withdrew troops from a brutal offensive in Gaza. In the last 13 years, the situation for those in Palestine has gotten no better. The political tension of this event means we must understand it fully. Here, we look back on a 2 part article written at the end of the Gaza War. Just over one year after the Annapolis Conference that was supposed to produce a Read more…
Support the NUS walkout! Students and workers – unite and strike!
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called for a nationwide day of action this term, on 2 March, involving a student walkout at universities across the country, and a mass demonstration in central London. Students have faced a year of lockdowns, mental health crises, reckless decisions by university management, and eye-watering fees and rent. On top of this, we have a government that couldn’t care less about this situation, and who Read more…
Reclaiming the Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Saturday 15th is the anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg. In commemoration, we will be attending an online rally on the Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg. Here, there will be a Q+A with the author of a new book on Rosa Luxemburg. Here, we publish the introduction from the book explaining the key points. Rosa Luxemburg was born on 5 March 1871. Coincidentally, this was the same year that the workers Read more…
Twelfth day of Marxmas: Spanish Revolution
And on the twelfth day of Marxmas, we give to you a video on the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s. The Spanish Revolution and fight against fascism was a brutal battle taking place across Spain. Workers from other countries came out in solidarity, fighting in the international brigades.
