What are they for?

The origins, purpose and alternative to nationalist ideology

Bicentenary of Engels birth.

Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani

How Marxists explain the causes and consequences of unemployment under capitalism

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

Why are you so fed up?

Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world's first socialist revolution

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.

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?

"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