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Sarkozy is out! Now workers need to fight for their program

Celebrations on the streets, in the Place de la Bastille and across France, greeted François Hollande’s victory in the second round of the French presidential elections. The Socialist…

No sunshine for Eurozone as crisis returns

The Eurozone crisis is the main immediate threat to world economic stability and could spark another world-wide recession. Now the May 6 elections have added a new political…

200,000 students strike against Quebec fee hike

Students in Quebec have been on strike for three months against efforts by the government to raise university tuition fees. The strike, organized by a coalition of student…

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NATO summit in Chicago and the tasks of the anti-war movement

Once more into the breach! NATO and the war-mongers are coming to town. The rather…

Scars resulting from Gulf oil spill as grisly as ever

Two years after the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we can see…

Wisconsin recall presents great opportunities

Deep fissures have formed within the ranks of the labor movement in Wisconsin, as the…

US to give billions more to Afghan puppet regime, austerity for the rest of us

The history of the United States in the imperialist epoch – particularly after the Second…

May Day 2012 – an international display of strength against the 1%

Statement by Workers Power.…

Revolutionary Thinking

Trotsky on Dialectics

Leon Trotsky’s writings are a rich source of advice to activists about how to solve difficult political problems. Keith Harvey draws attention to his insights “The dialectic is…

The Leninist Party and Democratic Centralism

“The party is not an arena for the assertion of free individuality, but an instrument of the proletarian revolution.” Trotsky’s words from 1939 form the background against which…

Crisis theory and modern capitalism

As the profit system struggles to pull itself together, Colin Lloyd and Keith Harvey explain why mainstream economics is powerless to assist. “The business cycle is one of…

Sources and Components of Marxism

Scientific Socialism

What is the difference between socialism and communism? How can we get from a capitalist society with all its problems, divisions,…

Political Economy

What is political economy? Students of economics are usually taught their subject in isolation from politics and history, but for Marxists…

Materialist Philosophy

Marxist philosophy can sound complicated, but it is not at all. This article explains some of the basics. The Marxist method…