Revolutionary work demands more than slogans, theories, or the repetition of formulas. Real progress requires grounding ideas in lived conditions and shaping strategies around the concrete realities faced by the people. There are several essential lessons for ensuring that political…
Category: Theory
Capitalist ideologues often speak of the “national interest” as though society is a single, harmonious community bound together by shared goals. Whether it is in discussions of foreign policy, economic “recovery,” or internal security, ruling elites insist that workers and…
The recent spate of the far right hanging or painting national flags throughout England has brought condemnation from everyone except other reactionaries. Everyone recognises the nationalist and racist intent of these actions but the response from the liberal centre and…
by Harry Haywood, 1978, source: Marxist Internet Archive Apart from our academic courses, we received our first tutelage in Leninism and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the heat of the inner-party struggle then raging…
If you hang around socialist spaces online, you’ll regularly see someone make a very earnest post asking for ideas about how to stop leftist infighting. This isn’t surprising. Seeing how divided the left is can feel troubling when we’re so…
Historical Materialism is the study of social development through the application of Marxist philosophy. Historical Materialism starts from the proposition that before people can create art, culture, science, or politics, they first have to produce for their material needs; that…
2023 11 02 Roadmap & Introduction This piece was written for some discord users who were curious about Anark’s video “Authoritarianism is bad actually“, which is in turn a response to Second Thought’s (JT’s) video “We need to talk about…
In this piece, I’m going to examine whether Momentum’s actions and strategy match up with its goal of instituting Socialism in the UK. I’m going to be harshly critical of the organisation at times. As someone who wishes to see…
YouTube channels can make a great addition to your politcal education, and act as a way to start bringing others around to socialist ideas. Here are 15 great socialist YouTube channels for you to consider: 1) Second Thought Second Thought…
“Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of…