The essence of revolutionary communism: new introduction to the 'Classics of Marxism'

Since December 2023, the right-wing Orpo-Purra coalition government of Finland has imposed a blanket ban on migration across its eastern border under the pretence of resisting Russian ‘hybrid warfare’. It maintains this brutal immigration policy with the collusion of the so-called Social Democratic Party (SDP), which has continued to expose its bankruptcy after it was booted from government in 2023 due to scandals and its implementation of austerity.

Wellred Books’ bestselling title The Classics of Marxism: Volume One is available in a brand new edition. Here we publish the introduction by Fred Weston – leading member of the Revolutionary Communist International. Fred highlights how, far from being relics of the past, the writings inside by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky are the most modern texts you can come across if you want to understand the nature of the capitalist system and how it can be overthrown.

This week, the turmoil in the Middle East reached new heights as Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran, targeting its military leadership and striking several of its nuclear facilities. This has since escalated dramatically with further attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliations against Israel.

For many outside Alberta (and Saskatchewan), the prospect of a referendum on Alberta’s separation from Canada is perhaps perplexing. But such a referendum in Alberta, which is likely to be held, is the logical conclusion of a long historical process that stretches all the way back to Confederation and how the Prairie provinces joined the Canadian federation.