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.

We are publishing here a video of comrade Lal Khan in a debate with the leader of the fundamentalist party Jamat-i-Islami, Liaqat Baloch and a right wing analyst Javed Qureshi on Dunya TV in Pakistan. Defending the ideas of socialism and exposing the relationship of US Imperialism with fundamentalism, Lal Khan gives a detailed analysis of the current US Imperialist hegemony from a Marxist point of view. (In Urdu)

Hear this recording from a public meeting held by Edinburgh supporters of Socialist Appeal on the ongoing economic crisis effecting millions of workers and poor people across the globe. Speaking were Fred Weston, editorial board of the website In Defence of Marxism, and Bayo Ogunrotifa of the Nigerian Marxists Campaign for a Workers Alternative.

The "Red Festival" of the comrades of FalceMartello held in Bologna, Italy, closed on June 29. Here we provide a link to more videos, including debates with international visitors from France and Spain, and an interview with Alan Woods who spoke at the festival.

Hear Fred Weston speaking to a recent meeting of Socialist Appeal in Edinburgh on the current Iranian Revolution. He also connects the movement against the Iranian regime with an analysis on the question of the state in a capitalist society.

Millions of people marched through Tehran and several other cities in the last few days to protest Iran's disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest anti-government demonstration in Iran since the 1979 revolution. The revolutionary situation is unfolding in front of our very eyes. Hear Alan Woods speaking to a meeting in London on June 25, 2009.

Yesterday the Second Red Festival organised by the Marxist wing of Rifondazione Comunista, FalceMartello, ended. We will soon provide a report, but in the meantime a viewing of the videos produced by the comrades will give our readers a taste of the atmosphere that prevailed.

 

Hear Jorge Martín speaking to a recent meeting in London about the Iranian revolution. After describing the student movement and the turbulent events in 1999 - which we described at that time as the first shots of the Iranian revolution - and the new wave of labour and trade union movement of the past decade, Jorge analyses the meaning of the current events.

Millions of people marched through Tehran and several other cities in the last few days to protest Iran's disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest anti-government demonstration in Iran since the 1979 revolution. The revolutionary situation is unfolding in front of our very eyes. Hear Alan Woods speaking to a meeting in London on June 25, 2009.

Alan Woods gives a lecture at the Chelsea College of Art in London in April 2009. He deals with the important role art plays in revolutionary political movements and speaks about how art changes to reflect the social and political events of the time.

What is Socialism?

John Peterson, National Secretary of the Workers International and editor of Socialist Appeal, interviewed by Our World Today on the subject of "What is Socialism?". The interview covers many of the traditional arguments made against socialism and defends the banner of revolutionary Marxism.

Construction workers travel to London on May 6 to demonstrate against a new wave of exploitation. Workers gather outside London Olympics site as the sun rises, and later outside Parliament, to make their voices heard and to demand justice for all workers.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International. Mick Brooks spoke at a recent Socialist Appeal Day School on the rise of the "world party of socialist revolution" under Lenin and Trotsky and its subsequent political and bureaucratic degeneration under Stalin.

Visteon workers in Enfield, having been threatened with mass arrest by a court order, agree to leave peacefully under the recommendation of the union on April 9, 2009. Some workers feel that ending the occupation is a mistake, despite an agreement by the Visteon management to enter into negotiations.

Recently the Marxist society of the University of London Union met for a discussion on ‘Marxism and Darwinism’. The topic of this meeting was chosen in order to coincide with the recent exhibitions and publicity surrounding the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterwork, ‘Origin of the Species’ in November this year.