Audio & Video

The Revolutionary Communist International hosts a number of regular podcasts and streamed events for training the new generation of communist fighters around the globe. Click on the images and links below to check them out! At the bottom of the page and on the following pages, we include all marxist.com’s audio and visual material.

The Spectre of Communism

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A spectre is haunting all major podcast platforms… The Spectre of Communism podcast!

On this weekly podcast, leading comrades from the Revolutionary Communist International go into depth on topics ranging from revolutionary history and strategy to science, culture and questions of theory. This valuable tool is intended to arm our listeners with the ideas and arguments necessary to defend the principles of communism, to win others over to a revolutionary perspective, and to help our listeners master Marxist theory for themselves.

Against the Stream

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In Against the Stream, our weekly current affairs podcast, members of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International sit down to discuss the main events shaping global affairs. In an increasingly turbulent world situation, these discussions look behind the headlines of the mainstream press and the statements of politicians, to bring out the real processes and interests at play.

The World School of Communism

Every two years, the Revolutionary Communist International hosts a world school. Bringing together thousands of communists from all around the globe in person and online for a week of discussion on Marxist theory, these schools are crash courses for steeling revolutionaries in the ideas we need to bring down this system. All of these talks have been made available to stream online, making them a permanent and extremely valuable resource. Click on the links to catch up on the World School of Communism 2024, International Marxist University 2022, and International Marxist University 2020.

Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses the recent terrorist atrocities in Paris, the role of imperialism in giving rise to Islamic fundamentalism, and the socialist alternative to such barbarism.

On Armistice Day - 11th November - Alan Woods analyses the factors behind the First World War - "The Great Slaughter" - and discusses the revolutionary alternative to imperialism and war today.

7th November marks the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 (25th October in the Old Style Calendar), when the Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks lead the masses of workers, soldiers, and peasants to power in Russia.

In a special Bonfire Night talk at the Sussex Marxist society, Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com and author of Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science and Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution, discusses the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and its legacy.

In this talk from Revolution 2015 - hosted by the Marxist Student Federation in London - Adam Booth, editor of www.socialist.net, explains the historical origins, evolution, and development of money, banking, and the modern financial system under capitalism.

In this recording from 28th June 2015, Shahrar Ali - deputy leader of the Green Party - and Adam Booth - editor of www.socialist.net - discuss the capitalist causes of the climate crisis, and the way forward for humanity.

Jorge Martín speaking on Greece and the Euro crisis at the Revolution conference in London on 28 June.

With the deepening crisis of world capitalism and the decline of the power of US imperialism comes growing instability on a global scale. This explains the increasing number of diplomatic and military conflicts around the world, but also the growing class struggle and political radicalisation that goes with it. Listen to Fred Weston speaking on this and much more at the recent congress of the Canadian section of the IMT.

Since the end of April a militant movement of metal workers in the car industry in Turkey has been developing, with its epicentre in Bursa. Workers are fighting for better wages and conditions and for democratic trade union representation.

Fred Weston of the International Marxist Tendency speaks on the situation developing in Greece today. The discussion also covers the wider economic and political situation in Europe.