by Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels 175 years ago, on February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published, opening the eyes of the world to ideas that would threaten the political basis of bourgeois society. A bombshell when it came out, it contains the germ of many key Marxist ideas and for the first time, […]
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Tony Wilsdon is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a fundamental work that should be required reading for all socialists and those seeking to understand underdevelopment in countries today when inequality between rich and poor countries is dramatically exacerbated by global crisis. This is especially true as the […]
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Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today. In recent years millions of young and working-class people have engaged in protests against […]
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This article is republished from the archives of ISA. Increasingly commentators say that the strike wave affecting several countries, and the level of inflation eating away at workers’ wages are reminiscent of the 1970s. We republish an article from 1971 by Ted Grant, then a member of the CWI — predecessor of ISA. The Tory […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The Transitional Program and Method Report from a session at ISA’s International Cadre School, where hundreds of socialists from around the world discussed key questions for socialists and the working class as a whole and our task in building a movement for a […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of ISA’s International Executive. In the first of a two-part article Per-Åke Westerlund looks at the rise of Chinese imperialism and what it means for building international workers’ solidarity against international capitalism China becoming the workshop of the world was the main driver of capitalist globalisation of the last decades. […]
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Florence Custance was a teacher, feminist, labour militant, Marxist educator and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Canada. Born in England in 1881, Custance was trained as a school teacher and came to Canada as a young woman. In Canada she was active in labour and feminist struggles. She was one of […]
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Sarah Moayeri, Flo Klabacher, and Brettros are members of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). One hundred and fifty years ago, Rosa Luxemburg (Rozalia Luksenburg) was born in what is now Poland, the daughter of a Jewish timber merchant. The young Rosa became politically active at an early age; at 16 she joined the revolutionary circle […]
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Massimo Amadori is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (ISA in Italy). Antonio Gramsci is certainly one of the most popular Marxist thinkers, and is considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. In recent years, his ideas have been particularly studied and appreciated by the Latin American left, as they look to the […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Book details: The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2020 John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, developed these […]
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