The significance of the soviet form of organisation and what its legacy means for working class militants today.
Trotskyism in the 21st century.
Why are you so fed up?
Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world's first socialist revolution
Capital, invested in human labour power and machinery, proved to be the most effective means yet for one class to exploit another.
Marxists make a distinction between forms of government and the class nature of the state. We always ask, “which class interests are served by the state?”
Marx proved that exploitation is caused not just by the sharp practices of some bad capitalists, but is part and parcel of the profit system itself.
In all its forms there is only one answer to fascism. Mass working class action, at the earliest opportunity, to physically and morally smash the fascist organisations.
Only the overthrow of the profit system can create the conditions for the withering away of humanity’s psychological need for religious belief
"All history is the history of class struggle."
Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism?
“When right meets right, might decides.”
Alexandra Kollontai made three decisive contributions to revolutionary socialism.
"The sharp sword, the living flame of the revolution."
Philosophical materialism demonstrates why socialism is the necessary outcome of the capitalist crisis.
"Nationalisation, without compensation and under workers’ control."
Oppression is a fundamental, necessary part of capitalism, and can only be destroyed along with it.
Why don't we just say "workers"?
The art of the dialectic
Reformism begins by redefining the socialist goal - and ends by rejecting it altogether
The struggle for the socialist goal is not an optional extra but the glue that binds daily struggles together