Theory
Private credit: Wall Street’s best idea since subprime loans
It has been less than 20 years since the Great Recession. The paltry reforms that Dodd-Frank introduced have failed to stop Wall Street from finding ways to gamble with the wealth of society.
The Crisis of Chavismo and Social Catastrophe
This article is a synthesis that contains parts of articles published in Correo Internacional in 2017 and 2019, as well as articles published on the LIT-CI website in 2020. Within the polemics of the different left currents, they tend to discuss the policies towards Maduro’s administration, the Constituent Assembly, and/or imperialism. But, unfortunately, little is […]
Remembering the Naval Mutiny of 1946
The 19th of February 2026 would mark the 80th anniversary of the naval mutiny, the event which shook the British Raj to its core and made British rule in India impossible. The uprising of the mutinying naval ratings of the British Indian Navy was not one isolated incident, it was the culmination of the rising class consciousness of the people of India, and it was the culmination of the growth of class struggle in British India.
Hidden history of anti-imperialist & anti-fascist organizing in Minneapolis
Today's resistance in Minneapolis builds on a legacy full of lessons on how to fight fascism and organize a general strike
Venezuela: The “bolibourgeoisie”: a new bourgeois sector
The U.S.'s unjustifiable invasion of Venezuela and detention of Nicolás Maduro has unleashed an unprecedented crisis for Venezuela and the region more broadly. To better understand the political economy of the country and its history, we are publishing a special edition of our International Courier, including new and old pieces on the nature of Venezuelan politics, past and present.
The new policy of US imperialism toward Latin America
Trump's new "National Security Strategy" has begun with the kidnapping of Maduro. What's changed, and what's stayed the same in imperialist policy?
The legacy of Victor Berger and the Sewer Socialists
Victor Berger's legacy as a socialist leader is larger than his deplorable personal opinions on race. His party line set back the movement for decades, even if some of his accomplishments are laudable in isolation.
Big Tech’s plans can bankrupt the U.S. economy
If nationalized under workers' control, AI could be developed in a democratic, sustainable fashion and put to genuine use. But the pattern of investment going into AI right now under capitalism is plotting a course for a severe crash.
The Putin Regime and The Consolidation of a New Imperialist State in Russia
While less of an economic powerhouse than China or the U.S., Russia has nevertheless consolidated an imperialist economy led by its energy and war industries, which it has used to invade Georgia and Ukraine, as well as to prop up subservient regimes in Kazakhstan and Syria, at the same time as it grinds the screws of oppression and political repression inside its own borders. Russia's economy today is a case study in the principle of combined and uneven development.
107 years after the revolution that changed the world
By Wilson Honório da Silva, PSTU-Brazil Petrograd, early in the morning of October 26, 1917. “Lenin, standing (…), let his small shining eyes roam over all those present, while he waited, looking inattentive, for the long and noisy ovation that greeted him (…). When it was over, he simply said: “That’s all, comrades! Let’s get […]
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 years after his assassination, we celebrated the life and legacy of Leon Trotsky. The synthesis of his life and work is the unrelenting struggle against capitalist society, the rescue of the true Marxist tradition, the defense of the global and […]
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 group of young militants founded our party, the Socialist Workers Party (PST) in Peru. Now we want to commemorate the founding of the party by giving a brief history and a offering a balance sheet to take stock of the objectives […]
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 will pay for the Treasury bonds issued by the country [1]. These definitions of the Fed are always based on an assessment of the situation and dynamics of the country’s finances and economy and have a great influence on them. At […]
When Lenin Became Trotskyist
By: Francesco Ricci Bourgeois Revolution or Socialist Revolution? Since the beginning of the twentieth century, and especially after the blood-soaked Russian Revolution of 1905, the character of the future revolution in the land of the Tsars has been debated in the workers’ movement, even at the European level.(1) Three theories have been pitted against each […]
Nahuel Moreno: Old Memories Still Relevant Today
By Eduardo Almeida Neto Originally published in 201 in the special edition tribute on the 30th anniversary of his death, from Conversations with Nahuel Moreno. Buenos Aires, one afternoon in October 1985. In a discreet two-story house across from Centenario Park, the headquarters of the IWL were functioning. I was in the International Secretariat working […]
An Age of Barbarism
By Bill Hunter, 2005, on the invasion of Iraq and imperialist terror An Age of Barbarism: that is the true description of the epoch we are living through – the barbarism of a capitalist system in decline and decay. The 19th century began with the viciousness of the Boer war and its concentration camps. In […]


















