Learning the ideas that will change the world: review of fall Marxist schools
In October, dozens of communists gathered in Halifax, Quebec City, and Vancouver for a weekend of presentations and discussion aimed at deepening their understanding of Marxist theory.
Danielle Smith calls the labour movement’s bluff
This whole saga demonstrates something that Marxists have always explained: weakness invites aggression.
The meaning of the rise of China
China is clearly surging ahead in many ways, displacing US dominance in one field after another in a struggle for markets around the world.
The falling support for immigration and the Marxist approach
What are the real reasons behind changing attitudes on immigration? And how should Marxists engage with those presenting concerns about this question?
Alberta teachers: Defiance is the only way to win
The stakes are as high as they’ve ever been, for teachers and the entire labour movement. The only force that can stop Danielle Smith is the working class.
Chico Buarque’s ‘Construção’: Art against dictatorship
This is not just poetry — it is the reality of millions under capitalism: men and women who produce the wealth of society, but whose lives are treated as disposable.
What the stock market bubble can tell us about the state of the US economy
The whole picture illustrates the organic crisis of capitalism, that the system is at a dead end and can’t take society forward.
What is Trotskyism? Issue 51 of ‘In Defence of Marxism’ magazine out now!
The theory of permanent revolution stands alongside Lenin’s theory of imperialism as one of the most important contributions to Marxism since the deaths of Marx and Engels.
‘They must all go’: social unrest in Peru sweeps away coup leader President Boluarte
What began as youth protests against a pension counter-reform has quickly escalated into a political crisis of enormous proportions.
The CAQ goes to war with workers
With his party in disarray, Legault prepares to use his government’s dying breath for an all-out attack.