Written by Alan Woods
Friday, 04 December 2015
The publication of the Mexican edition of Lenin’s Imperialism, could scarcely come at a more appropriate time. No book has ever explained the phenomena of modern capitalism better that this. All of Lenin’s predictions concerning the concentration of capital, the dominance of the banks and finance capital, the growing antagonism between nation states and the inevitability of war arising out of the contradictions of imperialism have been shown to be true by the entire history of the last 100 years.
Written by José Pereira
Friday, 04 October 2013
José Carlos Mariátegui was founder and general secretary of the Peruvian Socialist Party, set up in 1928, that later became the Communist Party. There is much mythology on the left about him. Here José Pereira puts the record straight explaining how this great Latin American Marxist, in spite of some errors, had reached the same general conclusions as Lenin and Trotsky on the fundamental questions facing the revolution in colonial countries. (First published in America Socialista, No. 6, August 2012)
Written by Jon Avis
Sunday, 25 March 2007
The slave trade inflicted tremendous suffering on millions of people. For the rising bourgeoisie, the slave trade played a pivotal role in the expansion of the global market and the creation of modern world capitalism. In the words of Marx, capitalism was born "dripping with blood from every pore."
Written by Leon Trotsky
Monday, 06 March 2006
In the 1930s Mexican president Cardenas came into conflict with imperialism because of several measures he introduced, including land reform and the nationalisation of the oil industry. In this conflict Trotsky emphasised that it was the duty of workers, especially in countries like Britain, to side with the Mexican people against the imperialists.
Written by Greg Oxley
Wednesday, 15 December 2004
After twelve years of upheavals, war, carnage and betrayals, the
revolution that broke out in 1791 in Saint-Domingue finally abolished
slavery and brought independence to Haiti. Its successive stages,
marked by numerous shocks and setbacks, were largely determined by the
ebbs and flow of the revolution in France.
Written by Pietro Di Nardo, in Naples, Italy
Wednesday, 15 January 2003
We are replublishing a 2003 critique of Toni Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire, which takes up the key ideas of the authors that are still fashionable among those who today wish to deny the essence of Marxism while at the same disguising themselves as Marxists.
Written by Dragan Drača
Saturday, 23 February 2002
During the four decades of "the building of socialism" in the former
Yugoslavia there had been formulated more economic theories of
socialism than in all the other self-proclaimed "socialist" countries
of Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Dragan Draca explains the bureaucratic
motives behind this to justify every U-turn in economic policy during
that period.
(February 23, 2002) This is the English version of the Serbo-croatian
original
ZABLUDE PROŠLOSTI
published by the Yugoslavian Marxist website
Pobunjeni
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