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The Struggle for a Revolutionary Party Today
The protracted crisis of global capitalism which is developing at an increasing speed and tempo accompanies an unprecedented crisis in leadership and, partially, the organisation of the working class.
What Are the Causes of the Current World Capitalist Crisis?
Russia’s economic collapse at the end of August, one more broken link in the chain of international crisis, marked a qualitative turning point. Bourgeois strategists were at last forced to confront the stark reality facing them.
Britain: Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ and the Left
The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some of the initial enthusiasm. ....
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Marxism
Introduction to Marxism
who were Marx & Engels and what did they say? Reading about Marx -the Revolutionary, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Lenin), Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto (Trotsky), The Communist Manifesto, Chapters 1 and 2 (Marx & Engels)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. - Karl Marx
Phylosophy
How do Marxists understand the world?
Reading: Dialectical Materialism: the Foundation of Revolutionary Theory, The Preface to “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (Marx), The Materialist Conception of History (Engels), ABC of dialectics (Trotsky)
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. - Karl Marx
History
When the working class took power
Reading: The lessons of the Russian Revolution, The Lessons of October (Trotsky), Chinese revolution, Cuban revolution, Revolutions across the plant. A History of Pan-African Revolt, excerpts (CLR James)
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history." - Karl Marx
Stalinism
The Rise of Stalinism
How the Bureaucracy Seized Power The Nature of the Soviet Regime The Crisis of the Stalinist States
The isolation of the Soviet Union had enabled the bureaucracy to seize power. The party's commitment to revolutionary internationalism - defended above all by Trotsky – threatened the bureaucracy’s ability to consolidate their power and privileges. In 1924-5, it was therefore abandoned in favour of the ‘theory’ of building ‘socialism in one country’.
The State
The Marxist Theory of the State
Reading: The State and Revolution (Lenin), Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments? (Lenin), Social grants & police brutality, What is Bonapartism?
The state is the product and the manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. - Vladimir Lenin
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Political economy
Marxist economics
Reading: How is the working class exploited?, Introduction to Marxist economics, Capitalism’s Big Con: Understanding Marxist Economics (CWI), Value, Price and Profit (Marx), Capital, selected chapters (Marx)
A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. - Karl Marx
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour. - Karl Marx
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Permanant Revolution
Trotsky's ideas of Permanant Revolution and development of imperialism
Reading: What is the Theory of the Permanent Revolution, Results & Prospects (Trotsky), Lenin’s theory of imperialism, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin)
The democratic revolution grows over directly into the socialist revolution and thereby becomes a permanent revolution
National Question
Marxist aproach to Natioanl question
Reading: The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (Lenin), Reading 4: Draft Theses on the national and Colonial Questions (Lenin), Rosa Luxumburg views, What is the difference between Rosa luxumburg and Lenin. National question today.
Party
Revolutinary Party
Reading: The revolutionary party & democratic centralism – organising a Bolshevik party, Our Organising Principles, A Letter to a French Syndicalist (Trotsky), The Class, the Party and the Leadership (Trotsky), Tactics & Revolution, other selected articles (Lenin & Trotsky)
The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself. - Karl Marx
Program
Program of the Revolutionary Party
How can we win the working class to revolutionary socialism? Trotsky’s Transitional Programme (Trotsky), Founding the Fourth International, On the Radicalisation of the Masses (Trotsky), our program (CWI)
Neocolonial Revolution
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Neocolonial Countries
Reading: Africanism vs. Marxism, Class & Race: Marxism, Racism and the Class Struggle,Africanism vs. Marxism, The Third International After Lenin, selected chapters (Trotsky), African Socialism Revisited (Nkrumah) and other readings
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.- Karl Marx
History of the CWI
Debates in the CWI
(1) The Open Turn, 1991-92 (2) The Collapse of Stalinism, 1991-92 (3) The ‘Name Change’ Debate, 1996 (4) The Scottish Debate, 1998-2000
The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself. - Karl Marx
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