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• Dialectical materialism – getting to grips with it!

  By Tony McMahon on February 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Dialectical materialism is an element of Marxist theory that scares many people but it’s really not that difficult to understand

• Communism and Islam – the Bolsheviks attempt an alliance

  By Tony McMahon on February 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last

• Marxism and Islamism – do they mix?

  By Tony McMahon on December 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Are Islamism and Marxism reconcilable or are they aiming for very different and contradictory outcomes? Tony McMahon investigates

• The woman who killed Trotsky (yes, really!)

  By Tony McMahon on December 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Ramon Mercader assassinated the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky but the key role of Ramon’s mother Caridad is often overlooked

• Are Brexit and Marxism compatible?

  By Tony McMahon on December 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Brexit and Marxism may seem to be incompatible but back in the 1970s, most socialists opposed European unity on a capitalist basis

• Eric Hobsbawm – historian and Marxist pessimist

  By Tony McMahon on December 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards

• The Falkands War – and the Marxist response

  By Tony McMahon on December 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Falklands War presented a dilemma for the political Left in the UK in 1982 including those on the Marxist left

• Chile – military dictatorship and monetarism

  By Tony McMahon on December 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In 1973, 46 years of democracy ended in Chile with a coup d’etat and a military dictatorship installed under General Pinochet

• The Portuguese Revolution of 1974

  By Tony McMahon on November 30, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy

• Polish Solidarity and Labour Students in 1982

  By Tony McMahon on November 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In 1980 at the Lenin shipyard in the Polish city of Gdansk – workers formed a new independent trade union movement they called Solidarity – Solidarność in Polish. But not everybody on the British Left welcomed this development with open arms.

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