The Lac-Mégantic tragedy, in which 47 people lost their lives following a train derailment, is 10 years old today. Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau’s recent documentary, Mégantic: ceci n’est pas un accident (“Mégantic: this is not an accident”), revisits the events and sheds new light on this huge scandal.

Esteban Volkov, grandson and last remaining physical link with the great revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has passed away at the age of 97.

Eighty years ago yesterday, the Third International came to an inglorious end. In 1943, without any democratic discussion, without consultation with the adhering parties or the rank and file, Stalin hurriedly dissolved the Communist International in a gesture to the imperialist Allies.

The US-led invasion of Iraq began 20 years ago. Since then, the country has been torn apart by war, sectarianism, and fundamentalism. To end the horror and barbarism of imperialism, we must fight for revolution and overthrow capitalism.

The International Marxist Tendency is proud to present the Winter 2023 edition of the In Defence of Marxism theoretical journal. The feature article in this issue takes on the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, which far from a ‘meeting of cultures’, was a brutal and bloody affair resulting in the extermination of millions of indigenous peoples. We publish the editorial by editor-in-chief Alan Woods here.

A new report in the journal World Development estimates that British colonial rule killed 100 million people in India in the span of just 40 years. While anti-communists falsely claim communism led to the deaths of 100 million people worldwide, capitalism caused the deaths of 100 million people in a single country within less than two generations.

Probably the most influential and popular politician in Quebec history, the entire political spectrum celebrates René Lévesque. From left to right, from the Liberals to the CAQ, from Quebec solidaire to the Parti quebecois, Lévesque is praised. For Marxists, the centennial of his birth is an opportunity to revisit and critique the ideas and career of the former premier.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. His policies of reforming the USSR ‘from above’, under the banner of glasnost and perestroika, represented an abortive attempt to maintain the privileges of the Stalinist bureaucracy, while also breaking through some of the worst logjams in […]

This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the “Maple Spring”, which represents the largest mass movement in the history of Quebec. This student strike mobilized hundreds of thousands of students before becoming a broader movement which brought down the hated government of Jean Charest. This picture stands in stark contrast to the sorry state […]

As the Russian army continues to shell the cities of Ukraine, the western press and politicians are doing their utmost to conceal the role of western imperialism in the disaster. Far from being a neutral party, the West have been provoking the conflict for their own imperialist reasons. As bombs and rockets fall on Ukrainian […]