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Marxism and Climate Change

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]

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Friedrich Engels at 200: His Life and Work

Albert Kropf is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Many want to drive a wedge between Marx and Engels for their own interpretations of Marxism and socialism. There is no either or, but only both together. Let us take a look at this in a brief foray into the wild life of Friedrich […]

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Engels @ 200: A Revolutionary Thinker for a World in Turmoil

Katia Hancke is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago, yet as a thinker was profoundly radical and strikingly modern. While his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx resulted in many co-authored works, as well as extensive correspondence between the two in which they developed their ideas […]

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Thousands of Nameless and Faceless Heroes — the History of the Trotskyist Left Opposition

George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) . On 20th August 1940, Lev Davidovich (Leon) Trotsky was brutally murdered by one of Stalin’s henchmen. To commemorate his work and examine his ideas International Socialist Alternative is publishing a […]

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Trotsky: A Biography by Pierre Broué Reviewed

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Pierre Broué takes us on a historic journey that begins with Lev “Lyova” Davidovich Bronstein’s birth on a Ukrainian farm in 1879, the early struggle of his teenage years to understand Marxism and his enthusiastic attempts to organise the Southern Russian Workers’ Union during […]

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Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method

Lynn Walsh is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Eighty Years Since Leon Trotsky’s Assassination An updated version of an article first published by the CWI, predecessor of ISA, in 1980 (The CWI has since been renamed International Socialist Alternative (ISA)) On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal […]

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Keynesianism and the Crisis of Capitalism

George Martin Fell Brown and Tony Gong are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Is the Problem Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The current economic crisis may have been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but its roots lie in a deeper crisis of capitalism going back to the financial crash of 2008–9. This ongoing crisis lays […]

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Lenin — 150 Years Since His Birth

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary alias, Vladimir Lenin, was born in the city of Simbirsk, now known as Ulyanovsk, on Russia’s Volga river a century and a half ago. By the age of 30, he had earned the reputation as one […]

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The Revolutionary Ideas of Rosa Luxemburg

Eleanor Crossey-Malone is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). January 15th marked the 101st anniversary of the murder of the outstanding revolutionary socialist leader, Rosa Luxemburg. This article, first published by Socialist Party Ireland looks at her defence of both the fundamental ideas of Marxism and the necessity of revolutionary change against […]

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Russia January 1905 – “Bloody Sunday” – the start of the first Russian revolution

On January 9th 1905, hundreds of thousands of Russian workers flooded out on a massive demonstration in Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, to demand from the Tsar that he implement their demands. They were met by the Imperial Guard, who brutally shot into the crowds leaving over 200 dead, hundreds wounded and thousands under […]

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