[Audio] 1929 World Crash - Can it happen again? Yesterday Socialist Appeal editor Mick Brooks spoke to an audience of 40 at the ULU Marxist Society in London. Mick outlined the major developments of the economy in the last five years. He explained the reasons for the credit crunch and the collapse of major banks in the last few weeks.
[Video] Belgian socialist trade union leaders speak on their experience in Venezuela Listen to the interviews of two participants of the first Belgian official trade union visit to Venezuela. Speakers are Ronny Le Blon, union official and former spokesperson of the socialist oilworkers at the Total refinery and Bruno Verlaeckt, president of the Antwerp branch of the union.
[Audio] The War in Georgia and the National Question The war in Georgia represents yet another turning point in world relations. Like a heavy rock thrown into a lake it has caused waves that will affect the whole world. Overnight the overweening arrogance of US imperialism, which had learned to look complacently at the entire planet as its sphere of influence, was been dealt a hard knock from which it may not recover.
[Audio] VHeadline interviewed Alan Woods on the conflict in Georgia and the latest developements in Venezuela In the Wednesday edition of the VHeadline Venezuela Newshour, broadcast on the American Voice Radio Network (AVRN), John Sanchez and VHeadline editor Roy S. Carson interviewed Alan Woods on the recent conflict in Georgia, the current state of world relations and the latest developments of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.
[Audio] Marxism and Art In May this year Alan Woods spoke to a meeting of Socialist Appeal in London on the question of Marxism and Art.
[Audio] Alan Woods on Bolshevism Last month Socialist Appeal hosted a meeting in London with Alan Woods speaking on the history of Bolshevism. Here we provide the audio files.
[Audio] Marxist Economics Marxists approach economics from a particular perspective. We have to accept that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, the capitalist class. The overwhelming majority of people have no wealth. All in essence they have is themselves and their ability to work, which they have to sell on the open market. Marx called these people the proletariat. Steve Jones, of the Socialist Appeal editorial board, talks on the basics of Marxists economics.
[Audio] Marxism and the Black Struggle What is the most effective way of combating racism? Fred Weston, of the marxist.com editorial board, spoke at the Marxist Day School held recently in London on the effects of positive discrimination and the lessons for the labour movement, touching on the origins of racism, the Black question in the USA, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid and Brazil where today the Black Socialist movement is opposing racial legislation.
[Audio] The State and Revolution Jorge Martin talks on Lenin's The State and Revolution,which he completed just before the October revolution in order to arm the Bolsheviks ideologically for the tasks of state power. Lenin explains the historic necessity for the emergence of the state as a tool of class rule, and that the state grows as economic differentiation in society grows, requiring the supression of the oppressed majority by the priviledged minority.
[Video] Alan Woods speaking at the SIDOR steel plant Here we provide the video of Alan Woods speaking to the SIDOR workers in Venezuela (in four parts).
[Audio] World Perspectives 2008 The following is an audio recording of Alan Woods on World Perspectives which was recorded in April of this year at the National Conference of Socialist Appeal. We have clearly entered a new stage of the world crisis of capitalism, which is characterised by colossal volatility at every level. Perspectives are a guide to action, and therefore this particular contribution is very important in orientating Marxists to the likely developments which can unfold on a world stage.
[Audio] The Founding of the Fourth International This year is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International. The International was established by Leon Trotsky and his supporters in September 1938. As part of the commemoration of this event Rob Sewell draws out some of the key lessons and methods on which the Trotskyist movement was built during the 1930s. He also explains that while the Fourth International no longer exists in an organisational form, it continues for Marxists today in our theory, programme, method and approach.
[Audio] Reformism or Revolution? Alan Woods speaks on his forthcoming publication "Reformism or Revolution, Marxism and Socialism of the 21st century", (a reply to the views of Heinz Dietrich), at a crucial stage in the Venezuelan revolution, as the struggle unfolds between those who are trying to limit the revolution within the confines of capitalism and those revolutionary Bolivarians who are attempting to complete the socialist revolution.
[Video] Jorge Martin speaking in Minneapolis about the Venezuelan Revolution During his Hands Off Venezuela tour through Canada and the USA, Jorge Martin gave a speech at the Central Labor Union Council in Minneapolis on May 17.