Theory

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Several Palestinian parties have worked for the liberation of Palestine, therefore it is necessary to discuss the history of Palestinian resistance to understand the role of each organization. By Fabio Bosco The main Palestinian party is called Al-Fatah. Founded in 1958 by a group of young Palestinians including Yasser Arafat, the party stood for the […]

By Eduardo de Almeida Neto The significance of the war in Palestine has updated strategic discussions for the Marxist left. One of the most important updates that is called for is an understanding of this whole convulsive process within the framework of the program theory of permanent revolution. According to Lenin’s criteria for defining wars, […]

The recent massacre carried out by Israel in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank, has once again shown the violent and aggressive character of Israel in Palestine and in its treatment of Palestinians. It has also shown that the Palestinian people, especially the youth, do not give up and continue to […]

Nahuel Moreno said that Hugo Blanco was the greatest Trotskyist mass leader after Trotsky. And to this day this is still true. He was the undisputed leader of the Peruvian agrarian revolution, which was centered in the province of La Convención in the 1960s [1]. Throughout that process, he was part of our current and […]