📖 🚩 OUT NOW: In Defence of Marxism 53 🚩📖
LATIN AMERICA: AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Featured articles:
🇻🇪 🚩 A balance sheet of the Venezuelan Revolution
🇲🇽 🎨 Mexican Muralism: Art born of revolution
🌎 🔥 Trotsky: Excerpts on Latin America
📉 💵 Why did the Wall Street Crash happen?
This issue explores why Latin America's revolution remains unfinished: from a critical look at the Venezuelan Revolution and the limits of reformism, to the powerful link between art and class struggle in Mexican Muralism.
Also featuring insights from Trotsky and the Fourth International, plus a Marxist explanation of the 1929 crash — connecting past crises to today’s world.
Order your copy today — marxist.com/magazine
#marxism #communism #revolution #latinamerica #imperialism
📕📢 BOOK LAUNCH: The Venezuelan Revolution – A Marxist Perspective
🚩 This revised and expanded edition completes this classic text of the Revolutionary Communist International.
🌎 In a period when much of the left sank into pessimism after the fall of the USSR, Chávez and Chavismo lit a beacon for the workers of Latin America. His defiant stance towards US imperialism – and towards the ‘devil’ in the White House – won him mass support from the workers and poor of Venezuela.
🔍 One of the few people who understood this process was Alan Woods, who wrote prolifically as events unfolded, defending the Bolivarian Revolution and explaining the road ahead. These articles form this text which, as such, is both a record of events and a case study in the role Marxists must play internationally when revolution erupts.
This edition includes:
- 📄 A new introduction by Jorge Martín on the forces behind Chávez’ rise, the development of the Bolivarian Revolution and the counter-revolution which followed Chávez' death
- 📰 Three additional articles, including “Where is the Venezuelan Revolution Going?”
- 🖼️ A full-colour photo insert, timeline and glossary
We are proud to republish this text as the definitive Marxist guide to the Venezuelan Revolution — its achievements, contradictions and lessons.
#communism #chavez #venezuela #history #revolution
🍿 It has been almost two months since we debuted our new, feature-length documentary, The Communists Are Coming – A Visual Manifesto. The film has been screened across four continents and gained 40.000 views on YouTube, driving a flood of write-ins from young revolutionaries inspired to join our ranks ✊
⚒️ Catch it on YouTube if you haven’t already, and share it far and wide! 🚀 🚩
🔗 Link in bio
#communism #movie #documentary
Three supporters of the Awami Action Committee in Hunza, who were arrested last week during a police crackdown at a peaceful sit-in, have now been released. While this is an important victory, the legal case against them has not been cancelled, leaving them threatened with future persecution by the authorities.
In addition, Ehsan Ali’s petition in the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court to suspend his name from the infamous Fourth Schedule – an ‘anti-terrorism’ measure that placed him under continuous surveillance – has been dismissed. This is an outrageous move that would continue to suppress Ehsan Ali’s legitimate right to dissent, even once freed.
We will continue to campaign tirelessly for the release of Ehsan Ali and the imprisoned leaders of the AAC. We will not stop until all of these activists no longer face persecution and suppression, whether in jail or in the streets.
#FreeEhsanAli #HandsOffTheAAC
🌍 Trump is in Beijing. He thinks he has gone to negotiate from a position of strength, but in reality he is negotiating from a position of weakness.
🎙️ In this week's Against the Stream, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín break down what the Iran war has done to American power and what it means for the rise of China, and what it reveals about the deeper historical decline of US imperialism.
📉 How did we get here? Is China just better run, or is something more fundamental going on? And is the decline of American imperialism actually a good thing for the working class of the world?
✊ New episodes of Against the Stream every Thursday at 6pm GMT on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
#usa #china #trump #communism #podcast #politics #news
A textbook argument against communism is that, although it may sound nice, it is fundamentally “against human nature”. But what even is ‘human nature’?
Daniel Morley from @revolutionarycommunists breaks down this and more in the series 'The ABC's of Marxist philosophy' – available in full on YouTube 🤓💻
#philosophy #marxism #materialism #dialectics
🚨🗓️ Mark your calendar!
On June 4th we will organise another international day of action to free our comrades in Gilgit-Baltistan. Our last one played a crucial role in getting our comrades released back then — and with your help, we’ll make this an even bigger success!
#FreeEhsanAli #ReleaseEhsanAli #HandsOffTheAAC
20 years ago, Chavez spoke to a mass rally of 5,000 youth organised by the Marxist tendency. His message still resonates today.
Hace 20 años, Chavez habló en Viena en un acto con 5.000 jóvenes organizado por la tendency marxista. Su mensaje sigue resonando.
Sarah Woolley, general secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU) in Britain, has endorsed the Free Ehsan Ali campaign! ✊
Want to help free our comrades in Gilgit-Baltistan? You can do so by signing the petition at / ✍️
#FreeEhsanAli #AwamiActionCommittee #GilgitBaltistan
Kommunistiske folkeskoleelever til demo mod Tesfayes lovforslag om fysisk magtanvendelse 🚩✏️💥
I går den 8. maj stod vi i RKP sammen med de danske folkeskoleelever og @danskeskoleelever for Christiansborg imod Mathias Tesfaye og SVM-regeringens lovforslag om fysiske indgreb i folkeskolen mod eleverne ✊
Der er bred enighed om, at fysisk magt ikke er vejen frem for at forbedre folkeskolerne. Det er en dårlig løsning på de problemer, de selv har skabt. Folkeskolerne er blevet presset af den ene nedskæring efter den anden. Uanset om man er folkeskoleelev, lærer, vikar eller pædagog, er det den nedskæringspolitik, der er blevet ført fra Christiansborg, som smadrer vores folkeskoler.
I Revolutionært Kommunistisk Parti nægter vi at acceptere regeringens angreb på folkeskolerne og velfærden.
Til de rige er der skattelettelser. Til folkeskoleelever er der intet❗
Penge til bomber og oprustning har politikerne mange af. Men til folkeskolerne har de ingen❗
Er du enig? Organiser dig i RKP og kæmp for en folkeskole som både lærere og elever har lyst til — fri for fysiske indgreb, nedskæringer og pres fra politikerne.
✊ Ned med Tesfayes lovforslag!
✊ Ned med regeringens nedskæringer på folkeskole!
🚩 Bøger, ikke bomber!
🚩 Kampen for socialisme!
#folkeskole #demonstration #socialisme #kommunisme #revolution
