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.

The Workers' International League held its first National Marxist School over the weekend of June 13th and 14th. As part of the School, a public event was organized jointly with Hands Off Venezuela, to discuss the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the lessons for Latin America. Jorge Martin spoke on the Revolution and the lessons that revolutionaries can draw from it.

Fred Weston, Editor of "In Defence of Marxism" (www.marxist.com) gave a lead off on the crisis of capitalism, with particular emphasis on the situation in Europe. The event was an open meeting of the Communist Tendency of SYRIZA, which was held on Friday, December 20, at the CINE KERAMIKOS in Athens, held as a fringe meeting during the founding congress of the SYRIZA Youth. It was highly successful with over 100 attending.

In this video from the IMT World School 2013 Lal Khan, editor of the Asian Marxist Review, gives a speech about the economic, political and social situation in Pakistan and also about the work of the Marxists.

We here publish the video footage of the debate between Alan Woods - editor of www.marxist.com and author of "Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution" - and Orlando Figes - Professor of History at Birkbeck University and author of "A People's Tragedy" - on the true nature of the Russian Revolution, and what it meant for the people of Russia and the class struggle internationally.

Niklas Albin Svensson introduces a discussion at the World School of the International Marxist Tendency on the book "Russia: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution". He covers the history of Russia from the October Revolution to the restoration of Capitalism in the 1990s.

One of the great classics of Marxism is the book by Frederick Engels entitled 'The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State'. Engels applies the method of historical materialism to this earliest period of pre-history to uncover the past. Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, gives an introduction to the book and explains how class society came into existence.

At the recent Marxist summer school in London, Alan Woods - author of "Bolshevism: the road to revolution" - explores the ideas of Bolshevism and discusses the vital role of Lenin and Trotsky in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

We publish here two videos of the discussion about the Italian Hot Autumn of 1969 which took place at the World School of the International Marxist Tendency 2013 in Greece. The discussion was led off by Claudio Bellotti.

Alan Woods gave a speech at the 2013 World School of the International Marxist Tendency about Perspectives for World Revolution. He speaks about the lightning speed at which events like the mass movements in Turkey and Brazil or the second Egyption revolution are taking place. Due to the worldwide crisis of capitalism, similar events will happen in every country on the planet.

The crisis of Capitalism today affects all countries of the world. At the same time there is no prospect of recovery in sight. As many bourgeois strategists have been forced to admit, only the ideas of Marxism have been able to analyse and explain the situation. In this video Alan Woods explains the roots of the crisis from a Marxist perspective and the way out of the impasse.