Marxists & Revolutionaries

21 August marks the anniversary of the death, in 1940, of the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky after being attacked the previous day by a Stalinist agent. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the […]

Esteban Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, sadly passed away on 16 June 2023. For many decades, Volkov courageously defended the ideas and historic role of Leon Trotsky. “Our director, comrade, and friend Esteban Volkov […]

This weekend marks the 55th anniversary of the capture and subsequent assassination of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia, writes Tony Saunois. Today, the image of Che Guevara is familiar to most people. A fashion statement […]

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first instalment of what would become Friedrich Engels’ famous pamphlet, The Housing Question. Niall Mulholland looks at this ground-breaking work and explains its relevance […]

On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt […]

This year marks the 81st anniversary of the assassination of the outstanding socialist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, by an agent of Stalin, on 21 August 1940. Last year, the CWI published a new book on his […]

The following article on the Paris Commune by V.I. Lenin  – a “verbatim report of a speech made by Lenin” – was published in the journal Zagranichnaya Gazeta, on 2 March 23, 1908. Lenin studied […]

Continuing our series of articles commemorating the 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, we look at the relevance of his important work, ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’, and […]