Category : History and Theory

On 5 May it will be 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx. Around the world, the capitalist system

In the bourgeois media today, Afghanistan is portrayed only in relation to Islamic fundamentalism, jihad, warlords and drug cartels. While

The last two months have seen renewed worries about the economy. It was meant to be a period of optimism,

As millions in the US are looking for a way out of the impasse of the capitalist system, rooting ourselves

No other event in human history has been the subject of more distortions, falsehoods and fabrications the Russian Revolution. We

Over the past period, especially since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a systematic and vitriolic attack

In this talk from a recent Socialist Appeal day school, Alan Woods (editor of In Defence of Marxism) explores Trotsky’s

Capitalism is in its deepest crisis in its history. It is an economic, social and political crisis, which is now

Tsarist Russia was known as the “prison house of nations”. More than half of the its population was composed of