The politics of Marxism including party organisation and ideology
It’s a massively neglected historical topic and one that will fascinate anybody with an interest in Marxism. How Trotskyism grew in the United States, intervening in trade union disputes, falling out with pro-Stalin communists, fighting fascism, and having many run-ins… Read More ›
Forty years ago, I was engulfed in the heady politics of Liverpool as the city fought a vigorous campaign against the Thatcher Tory government. Spearheading that campaign, adding ideological rigour, was the Militant tendency, a Marxist-Leninist organisation of which I… Read More ›
During the 2024 American president election, Democrats and others on the left decried the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, as a fascist. However, some socialist theorists and commentators have criticised the loose use of this word – warning that when the… Read More ›
Increasingly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, we have seen violent protests by predominantly white men from lower income backgrounds adopting racist and xenophobic views and manipulated by social media bots, often originating in the United States and… Read More ›
Hamas is not a progressive organisation and yet some on the Left support it – why?
Unlike the sectarian politics of Republicanism and Loyalism, the Marxist analysis of the Troubles in Northern Ireland emphasised the class division over religion
The ideas of Karl Marx were a mix of German philosophy, English economics and French politics so very Euro in its ideological composition
Marxism Explained 