A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.

A programme of action published in the early weeks of the pandemic.

IN THE face of the Tories’ overwhelming parliamentary majority, it is to be hoped that Hegel’s dictum, “victory divides the victors” will quickly be confirmed. At present, however, it is the divisions on the Left that are more obvious. Perhaps in anticipation of this, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, AWL, presented a call for “Left […]

Jewish people face casual discrimination on a day-to-day basis within capitalist society. This continues a long-standing historical trend; we were forced to become money-lenders in Europe during the Middle Ages, leading to harmful stereotypes which persist to this day, such as that the Jews are a duplicitous people who are only interested in money and […]

Over 80 years ago, CLR James’ remarkable work, The Black Jacobins was published in London. Its author openly intended his book to “stimulate the coming emancipation of Africa”. And indeed it did, playing a part in developing a movement of young black intellectuals in London, who were paralleled by similar figures in Paris and New […]

Resolution on the oppression of trans people.

The internationalist left need to outline an alternative to Corbyn's nationalist Brexit project

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

What is it?

A trade union can function without its bloated bureaucrats. In fact it will only really function as a force for socialist change without them.

If the process of production inevitably produces a bit of extra value, and that extra bit comes only from what the workers contribute, why should the profits go into the pockets of the business owners?

Unlike pacifists – who reject all wars – socialists oppose some wars, support others and will be prepared to wage war against the capitalist enemy.