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8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant

August 19, 2020 senann

On 21 August 1940, the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky died after being attacked by a Stalinist agent the previous day. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the October 1917 socialist revolution in […]

Comment & Analysis

Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative

March 23, 2020 Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI

Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, […]

Ireland Republic

Socialists debate identity politics

February 29, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary

Featured article from February 2020 Socialism Today (Monthly journal of the Socialist PArty- CWI England & Wales. The relationship between fighting women’s oppression, identity politics, and the struggle for socialism is a feature of many […]

Chile

The Constituent Assembly and other questions arising from the recent uprisings in Latin America – Part 1

February 22, 2020 By Tony Saunois (Secretary of the CWI)

Part 1. 1. The explosive mass movements which have rocked Latin America, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and some other countries have opened a new chapter in the struggle against capitalism. These revolutionary movements all have […]

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‘In Defence of Trotskyism’ – New publication available from Socialist Books

December 27, 2019 socialistworld.net

Essential debates facing Marxists and the Left today – socialism and ‘identity politics’; the role and character of trade unions and the working-class movement; the national question; and the programme needed to overcome oppression, austerity […]

Economy

Capitalism: The system that ruins the world

December 21, 2019 Book review by Peter Taaffe, from the forthcoming edition of Socialism Today, No.235, to be published in the New Year

To meet an ever-growing questioning of capitalism since the crisis of 2007-08, the system’s defenders look to theoretically justify its continued rule. The latest effort is by the renowned former World Bank economist, Branko Milanović, […]

Theory

Socialism or pessimism? Paul Mason’s ‘Clear Bright Future: a radical defence of the human being’ reviewed

June 27, 2019 niall

These are complicated, contradictory times. The capitalist system is in crisis, unable to recover fully from the decade-long great recession. Mass revolt has erupted – the ‘Arab’ spring, protests in Latin America, Sudan, Algeria and […]

Theory

The striking relevance of Leon Trotsky’s ‘Theory of Permanent Revolution’

April 14, 2019 niall

The revolutionary movements shaking Sudan and Algeria, and mass upheavals in other parts of the neo-colonial world, underlines the relevance of Leon Trotsky’s ‘Theory of Permanent Revolution’. This is particularly the case for the international […]

Theory

The renewed relevance of Engels’ classic, ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’

October 6, 2018 niall

‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’ should be read and studied by socialists, worker-activists and young people interested in socialist ideas, as it greatly adds to our understanding of the roots of socialism and the tasks the […]

Theory

Leon Trotsky’s living legacy

September 21, 2016 senan

Review of “The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky”, published in the latest issue of Socialism Today

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