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Labour’s class problem
What is the working class in Britain? That is a pretty big topic to cover, fraught with all kinds of ... -
The fight for a four day week
Labour's conference will debate a motion calling for a major reduction in working hours. URTE MARCH looks at the history ... -
The Popular Front: a warning from history
Whatever name they go by, popular fronts inevitable subordinate the interests of the workers to the need to maintain the ... -
Marxism: A is for Alienation
IT WAS a sunny day, so the foreman let us work outside, in the yard. We sat there hammering small ... -
B is for Bolshevism
Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world's first socialist revolution -
C is for Capital
Capital, invested in human labour power and machinery, proved to be the most effective means yet for one class to ... -
D is for Democracy and Dictatorship
Marxists make a distinction between forms of government and the class nature of the state. We always ask, “which class ... -
E is for Exploitation
Marx proved that exploitation is caused not just by the sharp practices of some bad capitalists, but is part and ... -
F is for Fascism
In all its forms there is only one answer to fascism. Mass working class action, at the earliest opportunity, to ... -
G is for God
Only the overthrow of the profit system can create the conditions for the withering away of humanity’s psychological need for ... -
H is for History
"All history is the history of class struggle." -
I is for Imperialism
Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism? -
J is for Justice
“When right meets right, might decides.” -
K is for Kollontai
Alexandra Kollontai made three decisive contributions to revolutionary socialism. -
L is for Luxemburg
"The sharp sword, the living flame of the revolution." -
M is for Materialism
Philosophical materialism demonstrates why socialism is the necessary outcome of the capitalist crisis. -
N is for Nationalisation
"Nationalisation, without compensation and under workers’ control." -
O is for Oppression
Oppression is a fundamental, necessary part of capitalism, and can only be destroyed along with it. -
P is for Proletariat
Why don't we just say "workers"? -
Q is for Quantity and Quality
The art of the dialectic -
R is for Reformism and Revolution
Reformism begins by redefining the socialist goal - and ends by rejecting it altogether -
S is for Socialism: the transition to Communism
The struggle for the socialist goal is not an optional extra but the glue that binds daily struggles together -
T is for Trotskyism
What is it? -
U is for Unions
A trade union can function without its bloated bureaucrats. In fact it will only really function as a force for ... -
V is for Value
If the process of production inevitably produces a bit of extra value, and that extra bit comes only from what ...