Dialectical Materialism When we discuss the method of Marxism, we are dealing with the ideas which provide the basis for our activities in the labour movement, the arguments we raise in the discussions we take part in, and the articles we write.
International Women's Day (2001) The 8th of March is celebrated worldwide as International Women's Day. That day is quite well known by people in the developed countries although its origins are not so famous. If we are not careful we could end up thinking that it was established about twenty years ago by the United Nations who have adopted it as one of its many "humanitarian activities" and now present it as a day for celebration, without any political or militant content, the main idea being that "things were terrible but now we are more or less OK".
Workers' Health - a burden on the shoulders of the textile-garment industry The following article has been specially translated for In Defence of Marxism from the Vietnamese newspaper Lao Dong ("Labour") . It gives a remarkable picture of conditions in the Vietnamese textile industry.
