[Originally posted by International Marxist Tendency04 March 2022 – marxist.com] We publish here a document written in 2016 by the leadership of the IMT (now the Revolutionary Communist International) as part of a discussion about the role of imperialism today and the character of China and Russia. We think it can serve to clarify questions […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] We publish here an eyewitness account of the conditions faced by workers at one of the most important copper and cobalt producers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This account was sent to us by Maurice Odingo, the general secretary of the Comité de Kinshasa. It gives a crystal-clear view of […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] Ylva Vinberg – 16 July 2025 Trump is eyeing Greenland, Putin is strengthening Russia’s base on the archipelago of Svalbard, all the while embarking on new joint ventures with China in the Arctic region at large. The world’s top imperialist powers are vying to strengthen their positions in the Arctic, elbowing […]
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[Originally published at marxist.com] Ben Curry, 09 July 2025 The mass movement to bring down Ruto rose up once more on 25 June. Its sequel was planned for 7 July, with another peaceful day of protest under the hashtag #SabaSabaRevolutionDay. But the day didn’t end with a revolutionary victory. Millions have been stunned by the scale […]
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[Originally published at marxist.com] Ben Curry, 03 July 2025 On 25 June, the youth erupted once more onto Kenya’s streets. One year to the day after the struggle to stop Ruto’s Finance Bill 2024 culminated in spectacular scenes of the youth overrunning the parliament building, Gen Z is on the move again. The movement has picked […]
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[Originally published at marxist.com] Alan Woods, 27 June 2025 There was a time when international diplomacy was a relatively stable affair – undoubtedly complex, but at the same time fairly predictable. The great powers decided policy quite cynically, in line with their own national interests. While the moral standards of these decisions were frequently questionable, […]
Read MoreIn 1901, Lenin published his much awaited book, What is to be Done? This masterpiece of Marxist literature is an unparalleled handbook for anyone wanting to build a Bolshevik party, for anyone serious about the struggle to overthrow capitalism today. In this article, we explain what gives this book its enduring power, and why every communist should […]
Read MoreIt is hard to find a more slandered figure in human history than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Dictatorial, murderous, cynical, immoral. You name it, Lenin has been accused of it. This is done by just about every political current, from the conservative right wing to the liberals, the reformists, and the anarchists. Unfortunately, decades of Stalinist […]
Read MoreThis translation of an article originally published by Révolution (the French section of the IMT), provides an overview of the Paris Commune: its heroic rise, its tragic fall, and its lessons for revolutionaries today.
Read More“This is a rebirth, a renaissance!” These words, spoken by Alan Woods, leading theoretician of the IMT, encapsulated the mood at a recent meeting of our International Executive Committee (IEC) in Italy. A significant stratum of workers and youth are reaching out to grasp the banner of communism with both hands – we must turn […]
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