Wed Jul 09, 2025
July 09, 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,...

Special | Stalinism and Trotskyism: Reassessing their Legacies in the Face of Eastern European Upheaval

By Martín Hernández Originally published in Spanish in the magazine Correo Internacional no. 17, May 2017, 44-47. Translated by Dolores Underwood from this article When the...

 Pandora Papers: Paradise for Capitalists, Hell for the Working Class

The publishing of the Pandora Papers report is causing a lot of upheavals and, with different dimensions, may cause or deepen political crises in...

The World Economy: An Anemic and Troubled Recovery

Last August, the US economy created far fewer jobs than expected. For bourgeois analysts, this data and that of inflation have turned on the...

Introduction to the Thought of the Arab Marxist Mahdi Amel

Mahdi Amel was born in Lebanon in 1936, where he completed his secondary education. He then moved to France, where he obtained his bachelor’s...

Notes on the Evolution of the Industrial Proletariat 

Introduction Most of the left-wing currents put into question the strategy of the socialist revolution as well as the role of the industrial proletariat as...

Imperialism Failed to Fight the Pandemic

  When Marxists say that under the capitalist mode of production, humanity faces the question of “socialism or barbarism”, it is not an exaggeration or...

Some Thoughts on the Paris Commune

The 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune has given rise to many studies, books, comments and public enthusiasm. Much more than the hundred years...

Imperialism Has Created A Vaccine Apartheid

Lenin identified, among others, a distinctive characteristic of imperialism: “capitalism has transformed itself into a global system of colonial oppression and devastating financial strangulation...

Paris Commune 150: the Economics

Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune.  The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the...

Global Economic Trends After the 2020 Recession

2020 was a terrible year for workers around the world. The combination of the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918 and the...

The Two Phases of Communism

All activists who fight for a world without exploitation of man by man have heard of the two stages, or phases, to get there....

Revolution is a Process: Huey Newton on Revolutionary Strategy and Consciousness

Revolution is a Process  Huey Newton on Revolutionary Strategy and Consciousness By James Markin Founded in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) remains a shining light in...

A brief outline of the history of the IWL-FI

Introduction   We have been fighting, since the 40s, a long and difficult battle to build revolutionary parties with mass influence in all the countries and...

Engels and the Materialist Interpretation of the History of Women’s Oppression

Engels was born on 28 November, 200 years ago. In his homage, the International Workers League - Fourth International published a series of articles...