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.

Roberto Sarti, member of FalceMartello, talks about the economic and political situation of Italy, the elections of April, the congress of Rifondazione Comunista in July and the recent strike movement of the workers and the youth.

John Peterson, national secretary of the Workers International League, talks about the current crisis of world capitalism, the effect it has on the conciousness of the working people and political consequences for all the countries throughout the world.

Once again the Middle East is engulfed in the flames of war. Alan Woods explains at the IMT Winter School last weekend in Berlin the reasons for Israel's invasion of Gaza and analyses the wider implications for relations between the powers in the Middle East and on a world scale.

The part played by the Bolsheviks in the history of the Russian revolution of 1917 proves the importance of the role of leadership. The history of the Spanish revolution proves the same thing, but in a negative sense. In September Alan Woods spoke to the Socialist Appeal Northern Weekend School in Britain, which had as its general theme 'The Class, the Party and the Leadership', on those events which took place in Spain 70 years ago.

With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings on December 4th by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister, debated Fred Weston, co-editor of In Defence of Marxism and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency.

John Peterson, National Secretary of the Workers International League in the U.S., presenting at a forum on the Spanish Revolution at May Day Books in Minneapolis, MN on November 13th, 2008.

The International Marxist Tendency has produced a Manifesto which outlines the causes of the capitalist crisis and puts forward a programme of action for the international labour movement. At the end of November Alan Woods spoke to the ULU Marxist Society in London, where he presented the document.

If you missed the national conference of British HOV this year, you get another chance to experience it here. See the speeches made by Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary, Samuel Moncada, Venezuelan ambassador, John McDonnell, MP, Matt Wrack, FBU General Secretary and Jesus Pino, Revolutionary Front of Steel Workers.

The Spanish students' union, Sindicato de Estudiantes, held its conference between the 21st and 23rd of November. They made this video as a summary of their conference.

Jesus Pino, a representative of the Revolutionary Front of Steel Workers at SIDOR in Venezuela, visited Britain at the end of November 2008, invited by the Hands Off Venezuela campaign to attend its National Conference in London. The interview is in Spanish with English subtitles.

On December 4th, 2008, as part of the 40th anniversary of the 1968 students' movement and of the formation of the ESIME Struggle Committee (CLESIME), students and former students from different generations of fighters who belonged to the CLESIME, and members of the CLEP-CEDEP, unveiled a commemoration plaque in lecture hall 4 of the ESIME, which was also renamed as "Hector Jaramillo" Lecture Hall after one of the founders of CLESIME who disappeared after being kidnapped by the Army in 1969.

The U.S. has elected a new president, Barack Hussein Obama. Along with the dramatic turn in the economic situation, this marks a definite turning point in the history of the country and of the world. Big illusions have been created that Obama will provide “change”. What American workers have voted for is an end to policies that benefit the rich - but does Obama represent real change?

Here we publish some videos of the rally of the Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF) which took place on Saturday, November 29. Thousands of students from Kashmir and across Pakistan participated in the rally. The participants held banners with the statements like "No to privatization, yes to nationalization under workers' control", "Struggle continues till socialist victory!" and others in favour of socialism and against increasing unemployment in the present financial crisis.