[Adam Booth, 21 November 2025 – originally published on marxist.com] The history of capitalism is littered with bubbles: periods in which over-excited investors pour their money into ultimately worthless ventures – from the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s, to the South Sea and Mississippi frenzies of 1720, to today’s cryptocurrency craze. The above examples are […]
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[Will Collins & Maya Khan, 26 November 2025 – originally published on marxist.com] In 1968, revolution broke out across Pakistan, overthrowing Ayub Khan’s hated military dictatorship. The national oppression of Bengalis within East Pakistan had produced a revolution along class lines. However, due to the failures of its leadership, the revolution was transformed into a […]
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[Josh Holroyd, 11 November 2025 – originally published on marxist.com] For two months the Islamist group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has maintained a fuel blockade around the Malian capital of Bamako. Despite attempts to secure supply routes by the Malian military, Islamist attacks on tankers transporting petroleum from Senegal and Ivory Coast (officially Côte […]
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[Jonathan Hinckley, 12 November 2025 – Originally published on marxist.com] On 29 October, thousands of Tanzanians came out across the country to reject intensifying repression and an election without an opposition. With chants of “We do not want CCM”, demonstrators, led by the youth, stormed and burned police stations, polling stations, and the properties of […]
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[Joe Attard, 10 November 2025: Originally published on marxist.com] Sudan is bleeding to death. Since 2023, at least 150,000 people have been slaughtered and 12 million displaced by a civil war between two counter-revolutionary armies, both committing atrocities, and each backed by various foreign powers eager for their slice of this mineral-rich and strategically important […]
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[Published on marxist.com: Adam Booth, 31 October 2025] The history of science is that of humanity’s quest to understand the workings of the universe, free from mysticism and supernatural forces. In this article, Adam Booth explores the revolutionary process by which scientific ideas advance, the link between developments in science and wider society, and the crisis […]
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[In Defence of Marxism, 24 October 2025] We are very proud to announce that The Communists Are Coming: a Visual Manifesto – a new, feature-length documentary produced by the Revolutionary Communist International – premieres today at 18:00 British time. The whole documentary will be available to watch on Youtube, chronicling the first year of the RCI and […]
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[Kenny Wallace, 23 October 2025 – originally published on marxist.com] China has surged ahead as the world’s premier industrial power. Not a day goes by without news of new technological breakthroughs made in China. This country, which only two decades ago was still mired in backwardness, is now engaged in a titanic rivalry with the […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com – 15 October 2025] In Defence of Marxism15 October 2025 The theory of permanent revolution stands alongside Lenin’s theory of imperialism as one of the most important contributions to Marxism since the deaths of Marx and Engels. Accordingly, in this issue of In Defence of Marxism we are proud to publish a number […]
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[Niklas Albin Svensson, marxist.com – 16 October 2025] The financial markets are booming like never before. After a few jitters in April as Trump announced his ‘reciprocal tariffs’, the stock markets have hit record after record. This at the same time as workers are being squeezed, government finances are in crisis everywhere, central banks are […]
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