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In preparation for the In Defence of Lenin conference, and to commemorate Lenin’s life and ideas, we publish here a video of a walking tour around London – given by Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, as part of the Red October 2015 festival – of the places where Lenin and the Read more…
In preparation for the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation, where we’ll be discussing the life and legacy of Lenin, we republish this article from 1970 by Alan Woods. In the last active period of his life, Lenin was chiefly absorbed by the problems of the Soviet economy Read more…
In celebration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution and as part of our build up for the conference of the Marxist Student Federation next month we’re republishing here an article from 2014 by Rob Sewell of the International Marxist Tendency. Ninety years ago, on 21st January 1924, Vladimir Lenin, Read more…
Having secured for him his victory as Deputy Leader, Tom Watson has now warned everybody about the arm-twisting Trotskyist entryists in the Labour Party. Apparently the irony escaped him that the only other person in history to have complained about Trotskyist infiltration to this extent was Joseph Stalin. Yes, there Read more…
In these talks from the Marxist Student Federation National Conference 2016 “The Road to Revolution”, revolutionaries look at what demands Marxists should be raising in the Corbyn movement and beyond. Joe Attard of the KCL Marxist society and KCL UCU branch introduced the discussions by outlining the contradictions and crisis Read more…
This leaflet may be downloaded as a PDF here ================================================================================================ Join the Marxist Student Federation on Saturday 27 February when we will be part of the youth and student bloc on the CND demo to stop Trident. Assemble at Marble Arch at midday for a march to Trafalgar Square where there Read more…
As Labour Students and Young Labour prepare for conferences in February, at which policy will be decided and elections held (including for the position of International Officer), it is a good time to consider what kind of policies a Corbyn-led Labour party should be putting forward. For the first time Read more…
On 9 September 2015 Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch in British history. As this date approached, newspapers and programmes on the telly joyously compared Elizabeth’s reign to the reign of Queen Victoria. To celebrate this anniversary we were asked by the editors of the Wessex Scene, the student Read more…
2007-08 saw the beginnings of a world economic crisis unlike any other we have seen. Since the end of the Second World War there have been seven official recessions, but each of these was followed by a period of relatively fast recovery. This time the situation is different though. There Read more…
by Mordecai Levi, Cambridge Marxists What is now my principal task? To reveal the truth.” – Leon Trotsky speaking in Mexico, January 30th 1937. The events of October 1917 are the greatest in all of human history. For the first time since 1871 – when the Paris Commune was put Read more…
by Eoin Breathnach and Gavin Jackson, Leeds Marxist Society The past two decades have witnessed a barrage of propaganda against Marxism and its revolutionary heritage.Since the collapse of Stalinism – not socialism, but a monstrously deformed caricature of Marxism – from one front to another the mainstream media, universities, Read more…
(A letter to the Kiev comrades. From Pravda, May 31, 1923. Translated for this volume from Collected Works, Vol. 2 1, by Marilyn Vogt. From: Problems of Every Day Life by Leon Trotsky.) Dear Comrades: You complain that you have not been able to read even one-tenth of the Read more…
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