Tag: Theory
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Women, capitalism, and the struggle against oppression – A Marxist critique of Silvia Federici
The communist movement has a proud legacy when it comes to fighting oppression, linking this struggle to the fight against class society itself. This is the tradition that International Working Women’s Day was based on, when it was first proposed in 1910. The Marxist position on oppression is often attacked, however. One of those who…
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Israel’s war on Iran – how would Trotsky have posed the question?
Following the US and Israel’s scandalous, unprovoked attack on Iran, we are republishing the following article, which was first written after the 12-Day War in June 2025. It remains every bit as true as then. As it explains, communists must be absolutely clear on one thing: this is a predatory, imperialist war waged to subjugate…
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Leon Trotsky: the class, the party and the leadership
We republish below Trotsky’s unfinished article The Class, the Party, and the Leadership, which examines the reasons for the defeat of the Spanish Revolution. Was this failure the result of inadequate leadership, or were the workers themselves not sufficiently “mature” to carry through a revolution? In this incisive text, Trotsky explores the dynamic relationship between…
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Alan Woods on Kautsky’s ‘Foundations of Christianity’
To mark the holiday period, we republish the following introduction by Alan Woods to a German edition of Karl Kautsky’s excellent text, The Foundations of Christianity. Originally published 23 September 2011, Alan outlines the significance of this work, and gives an overview of Kautsky’s historical materialist account of the origins of the Christian faith. Religion…
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of ‘The History of Philosophy’
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” (Lenin, What is to be Done?) A voyage of discovery The news of the publication of my book, The History of Philosophy, in Brazil was a moment of great satisfaction for me. It shows that the Brazilian section of the Revolutionary Communist International is being built…
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Leon Trotsky on organisational problems
The following are translations of excerpts from Trois points c’est tout by Fred Zeller (1912-2003). Zeller, who, at the time, was the secretary of the Seine (Paris) Young Socialists and a sympathiser of the Trotskyist movement in the mid-1930s, visited Trotsky in Norway at the end of October 1935. This was at the time when…
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Theses on the climate crisis
This document was first drafted and published on the 22nd of June 2020. Ever since, the climate crisis has only grown in intensity and, as the recent COP30 summit has shown, the ruling class remains utterly incapable of taking action to even slow the pace of this disaster. The analysis presented below remains an essential…
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The revolutionary lessons of Lenin’s ‘What is to be Done?’
We publish Rob Sewell’s introduction to Lenin’s 1902 pamphlet, What is to be Done? Rob explains the importance of this text, in which Lenin rebuked reformist and opportunist trends in Russian Social Democracy, and argued for building a committed party of professional revolutionaries to lead the working class to power. It bears huge relevance for…
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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin
The following article provides a timeless analysis of the process by which the world’s first workers’ state, the Soviet Union, was destroyed. This remains as essential a topic to understand for those who wish to revive the genuine Bolshevik traditions of Lenin, Trotsky, and the Russian Revolution. We bring to the readers’ attention the fact…
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What the Russian Revolution achieved and why it degenerated
108 years ago this week, the Bolsheviks led the Russian workers and peasants to power in Russia. The October Revolution of 1917 stands out as the greatest event in human history – the moment when capitalism was overthrown across one-sixth of the Earth’s surface, and millions of ordinary people took up the task of transforming…