Poles Apart is the new video from the WSPUS’ companion party in the UK. It’s a filmed debate between a reform advocate for “Arctic Voice” and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The contention is if Global Warming can be constrained within capitalism.

It’s available via bit-torrent in 2 parts: Part 1 and Part 2 Its also available on youtube in 14 parts DVD copies should be available in North America soon…

The new World Socialist Review is available now. Issue 21 is a special issue focusing on Latin America.
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Final talk from the ‘Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made’ lecture series. Martov was an important socialist thinker and activist from the first two decades of the twentieth century, and I hope that readers will also take the time to check out the links below for further information about Martov and the period under discussion.

Further Reading on Julius Martov:

from the ‘Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made’ lecture series, the talk dates from Sunday 12 December 1982, and was held at the Prince Albert pub in Kings Cross, London.

A 1992 Chumbawamba song about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, “That’s how grateful we are” tells the story of the famous felling of a statue of Stalin in Budapest’s main square by workers. The irony being that the statue was dedicated as a thanks to Stalin by the “grateful workers of Hungary”.

News From Nowhere is the monthly 2 page newsletter of the WSPUS. Please download, print and distribute it in your town, work, school or union.

This month’s NfN: About the “Housing Bubble” …

News From Nowhere is the monthly 2 page newsletter of the WSPUS. Please download, print and distribute it in your town, work, school or union.

This month’s NfN: We choose “The Ballot Over The Bullet”

Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party - the SPC. In this issue they celebrate “100 Years For Socialism”

News From Nowhere is the monthly 2 page newsletter of the WSPUS. Please download, print and distribute it in your town, work, school or union.

This month’s NfN: “What do you mean, Freedom Isn’t Free?”

The purpose of this pamphlet is to show that the capitalist social system is a dynamic and not a static organization, having developed out of previous social systems. The historical role of capitalism was progressive insofar that the means of production, hitherto small and fragmentary in character, were welded into the gigantic productive organizations which we know today. The social powers of production are not under the control of society and the relations of production do not serve the interests of the producers, the working class. The social classes have been reduced to two, a propertyless working class forming the vast majority, and a property owning capitalist class, the minority. The relations of production are antisocial because the object behind production is not the satisfaction of social need but the amassing of profit and the accumulation of capital.

The trend of economic ‘globalization’ has been the focus of heated debate and protest in recent months. Bodies such as the World Bank, World Trade Organization (W.T.O.) and International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) are the subject of much criticism for their role in the globalized economy. Here we shall view the policies of these institutions within the context of the development of global capitalism since World War II. A study of the economic forces that lie behind globalization will demonstrate that we need to do more than simply call for the abolition of the World Bank, W.T.O. or I.M.F. There is, in fact, little scope for countering the negative effects of the global market economy within capitalism which is why we should seek an end to capitalism itself rather than somehow seek to reverse the tide of globalization.