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November 03, 2025

Theory

107 years after the revolution that changed the world

By Wilson Honório da Silva, PSTU-BrazilPetrograd, early in the morning of October 26, 1917. "Lenin, standing (…), let his small shining eyes roam over all those present, while he...

Trotsky and the revolutionary passion for art and culture

Wilson Honório da Silva, of the PSTU’s National Education Secretariat On August 21, 2024, 84...

Peru: Fifty years fighting for the construction of a Revolutionary Party

It was during the national holidays (July 28 and 29) in 1974, that a...

Fed Rates and the State of the U.S. Economy

The U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) has just announced the interest rate policy it...

When Lenin Became Trotskyist

By: Francesco Ricci Bourgeois Revolution or Socialist Revolution? Since the beginning of the twentieth century,...

For a new Iranian Revolution

Iran and the USA have signed a nuclear agreement, following the election of the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. President Obama claimed this was his...

The universe is not dying!

  A terrible discovery was announced recently: our universe would presumably be dying! A study of more than 200,000 galaxies by astronomers from several...

Marxism Alive-New Epoch n. 6 is launched

The IWL-FI theoretical magazine, Marxism Alive-New Epoch, is now in its 6th issue, published in Spanish and Portuguese. Unfortunately it is not currently...

The foundation of the IV International is a historic victory of the working class

Copyright: Romerito Pontes This article was first published on the IWL-FI’s theoretical magazine, Marxism Alive n. 19, in 2009. Seventy years after the IV International was...

Who was Leon Trotsky?

His life Liev Davidovich Bronstein was born on October 26, 1879, in the Ukrainian village of Yanovka, Russian Empire. Jew, son of middle peasants, he...

Engels: The General of the Revolution

When Friedrich Engels died in August 5, 1895 in London, it could be read on the theoretical journal of the German Social Democracy,...

On “post-modern” idealism, deterministic materialism and the radical critique of Marx and Engels

Nowadays it is becoming common to claim that there is no such thing as truth; what would exist are merely interpretations, particular points...

Ta Thu Thau: Vietnamese Trotskyist Leader

In 1945, 70 years ago, Ta Thu Thau (great fighter against French colonial rule and the main Trotskyist leader in Vietnam) was shot...

History: The war for National Liberation in Vietnam and the agrarian revolution

Forty years ago, on May 1975, the American imperialism was defeated in Vietnam by the resistance of the Vietcong and all the Vietnamese people....

What Are the Origins of May Day?

This short article by Rosa Luxemburg shows the steps given by the working class in the world to create the First of May...

Decreasing of China’s growth is followed by an increase in working class struggles

The expectations were high when the Chinese government announced on April 14 the 2015 first-quarter growth figures of the country. Governments and banks...

Pietro Tresso (Blasco), Trotskyist militant and founder of the IV International

Pietro Tresso (Blasco) was born on the 30th of January 1893, in Magrè di Schio in the province of Vicenza, in Italy. In 1921,...

On the Ninetieth Anniversary of Lenin’s death: new aspects of his Testament

Lenin’s last struggle, the first battle against Stalinism In the Central Committee of October 6, 1922 Lenin was absent. Stalin presents a text that strongly...

IWL-FI TV launches its first program. Watch it now!

The first issue of our program shows interviews with IWL-FI militants, in which they explain the main events of the class struggle in...