Theory & History
Picks this week
Theory & History
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: a struggle for genuine socialism
The Spectre of Communism
Class War in the USA: The Untold Story – Part One (1877-1938)
The Spectre of Communism
Class War in the USA: The Untold Story – Part Two (1938-2026)
Introduction to Marxism
The Spectre of Communism
Who was Karl Marx REALLY? – A reply to CrashCourse
The Spectre of Communism The Communist Manifesto Explained
World School of Communism 2026: The Power of Ideas How Marx Became a Marxist
Theory & History Why we are Marxists
Theory & History In defence of theory — or ignorance never yet helped anybody
The Spectre of Communism In defence of Lenin
The Spectre of Communism What is capitalism?
The Spectre of Communism Lies about Lenin: DEBUNKED
The Spectre of Communism
The case for theory: why communists should study philosophy
What is Marxism?
What Is Dialectical Materialism?
World School of Communism 2024
The necessity of a revolutionary philosophy
Theory & History
In Defence of Hegel
The Spectre of Communism
The Philosophy of Despair: Postmodernism Explained
Theory & History
The origins of class society
Theory & History
What is historical materialism?
Theory & History
“The Eighteenth Brumaire”: a masterpiece of Marxism
World School of Communism 2026: The Power of Ideas
Progress, Decline, and the Marxist View of History
Theory & History
The fall of woman: property, oppression and the family
World School of Communism 2026: The Power of Ideas
The Origins of Marxist Economics
What is Marxism?
What Is Marxist Economics?
The Spectre of Communism
What is capitalism?
Theory & History
Marxism vs libertarianism
Theory & History
In Defence of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value
The Spectre of Communism
How Marx became a Marxist
Revolution Festival 2020
The revolutionary ideas of Friedrich Engels
Theory & History
Marx versus Malthus: overpopulation or senile system?
Theory & History
Marx versus Bakunin
Theory & History
Lenin: 100 years on
The Spectre of Communism
In defence of Lenin
The Spectre of Communism
Imperialism in the 21st century – what Lenin would say today
The Spectre of Communism
Lenin’s crusade against imperialist war – lessons for today
Theory & History
What is Trotskyism?
Theory & History
Trotsky, 1905 and the Permanent Revolution
Theory & History
Trotsky’s struggle to rejuvenate the Bolshevik party
World School of Communism 2026: The Power of Ideas
Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For
The Spectre of Communism
Stalinism on TRIAL
The Classics of Marxism: Volume Two
Stalinism and Bolshevism
Theory & History
Stalin: 50 years after the death of a tyrant
Theory & History
Lenin’s Last Struggle
Revolution Festival 2022
The 1925-27 Chinese Revolution and the role of Stalinism
Revolution Festival 2021
Marxism vs Anarchism
Theory & History
Marx versus Bakunin
Theory & History
Marxism or anarchism? – An open letter to thinking anarchists
Theory & History
The struggle against reformism
The Spectre of Communism
Imperialism in the 21st century – what Lenin would say today
Theory & History
Lenin’s struggle against imperialist war
Video
What is imperialism?
Theory & History
1916: ‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism’
Theory & History
Marxism vs Identity Politics
Theory & History
The fall of woman: property, oppression and the family
Theory & History
Marxism vs. Queer Theory
Revolution Festival 2023
Race and class: Do we need a ‘Black Marxism’?
Theory & History
USA: Black Struggle and the Socialist Revolution
Revolution Festival 2025
Migration and borders: The communist position
The Spectre of Communism
The history of fascism: lessons for today
Theory & History
The menace of fascism
Theory & History
Democracy, Bonapartism and Fascism: lessons for today
World School of Communism 2026: The Power of Ideas
Is The World Going Fascist?
Theory & History
Marxists and the National Question
Revolution Festival 2022
The national question in Ukraine
The Spectre of Communism
Palestine: a communist perspective
Theory & History
How British imperialism paved the way for the Nakba
Theory & History
The history of Israel-Palestine to 1993
Theory & History
1922: ‘On the significance of militant materialism’
Theory & History
The Enlightenment and Spinoza’s revolutionary rationalism
Theory & History
Trotsky, 1905 and the Permanent Revolution
Theory & History
1918: ‘The Immediate tasks of the Soviet government’
Theory & History
1917: ‘The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution’
Theory & History
The history of Chinese Trotskyism
Theory & History
The myth of Mao’s ‘anti-imperialism’
Theory & History
Imperialism today and the character of Russia and China
Theory & History
The Spanish Civil War and the crimes of Stalinism
Theory & History
Time to exorcise the ghost of Franco
Theory & History
The Spanish Revolution Betrayed
Theory & History
The Spanish Revolution 1931-37
Theory & History
January 1933: How and why Hitler gained power
Theory & History
When the communists ruled in Bavaria
Theory & History
Germany 1921: The tragedy of the ‘March Action’
Theory & History
Figaro and the French Revolution
Theory & History
Cromwell’s commonwealth: building the kingdom of the bourgeoisie
Theory & History
The Civil War: America’s second revolution
Theory & History
Lessons of the Paris Commune
Theory & History
“The Eighteenth Brumaire”: a masterpiece of Marxism
Theory & History
The ‘June Days’ of 1848: The volcano of revolution erupts
Theory & History
The Paris Commune: triumph, tragedy and lessons for today
Theory & History
Lessons of the Paris Commune
Theory & History
How the Communist International was built
Theory & History
Why we need a communist international
Theory & History
Frantz Fanon’s ‘Wretched of the Earth’ – A Marxist critique
Theory & History
50 years since the Ethiopian Revolution
Theory & History
How French imperialism was defeated in Algeria
Theory & History
Trotsky, 1905 and the Permanent Revolution
Theory & History
Lessons from Greece
Theory & History
The history of Israel-Palestine to 1993
United States
What will communist America look like?
Theory & History
The Civil War: America’s second revolution
Theory & History
The First International: 150 years on
Theory & History
Marx versus Bakunin
Theory & History
Marx versus Bakunin: Fictitious Splits in the International
Theory & History
1918: Lenin versus the renegade Kautsky
Theory & History
Rosa Luxemburg – Reform or Revolution
Theory & History
The Zimmerwald Conference – the turning of the tide
Theory & History
How the Communist International was built
Theory & History
The struggle for world revolution – by Alan Woods
Theory & History
Why we need a communist international
Theory & History
Italy: battles in the Third International
Theory & History
Zinoviev and the Stalinist degeneration of the Comintern
Theory & History
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Theory & History
To Build Communist Parties and an International Anew
Theory & History
On the Founding of the Fourth International
Theory & History
‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ – reviewing a modern classic
Theory & History
Figaro and the French Revolution
Theory & History
Socialism
How communists would spend Elon Musk’s one trillion dollars
Joe Attard
What will communist America look like?
Laura Brown
Culture and Socialism
Leon Trotsky
The Soviet economy: how it worked… and how it didn’t
Adam Booth