[Audio] Lal Khan in an interview with local radio in Antwerp This is an interview with Lal Khan for a local radio station in Antwerp (Belgium) made on January 11, 2008. Lal Khan, a leading figure of the The Struggle, the Marxist wing of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), talks in this interview about the history of Pakistan and the PPP, the 1968-69 revolution, Islamic fundamentalism, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the prospects for socialist revolution in Pakistan.
[Audio] Alan Woods on world perspectives 2008 Listen to Alan Woods delivering a speech on the world political and economic perspectives for year 2008 at a meeting of the leadership of the International Marxist Tendency on January 13, 2008. (The speech can be downloaded in one MP3 file or divided into 3 parts: 1 - ...
[Audio] Individual Terrorism and Communism We publish a talk by Alan Woods on the Marxist's attitude to individual terrorism, given at the Socialist Appeal day school in London late last year. Of particular relevance following the assasination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan recently, socialism must oppose acts of indiviual terrorism - 'liberals with bombs' - because of the reactionary role they play in the labour movement.
[Audio] The Marxist Conception of History The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. That is all written history. For the majority of human history man did not live in a class society. But with the development of technique came the production of a surplus of wealth over and above the means of subsistence. This produced a flourish of art, science and philosophy as part of the population was freed for the first time from the toil of everyday labour. Mick Brooks talks on the application of Marxist philosophy to the development of society.
[Audio] The Miners' Strike At the University of East Anglia recently Rob Sewell of the Socialist Appeal gave a talk on the Miners strike in Britain 1984-5. The strike was a culmination of the inevitable build up of tension between the ruling and working class. In the post-war period the decline of British imperialism had occured. The Tories of the 1980s were a rabid reaction to that phenomenon, determined to destroy the organised labour movement by taking on its most militant section, the National Union of Miners.
[Audio] The Permanent Revolution Fred Weston of the International Marxist Tendency, and editor of In Defence of Marxism, talks on Leon Trotsky's theory of the Permanent Revolution. This marxist concept constitued the main ideological opposition to Stalin's theory of 'socialism in one country', which came to be the dominant outlook of the Soviet bureaucracy, that grew out of the isolation and degeneration of the young workers state.
Video report of the 26th Congress of The Struggle Pakistan As we reported earlier, on 30 and 31 March 2007, the 26th national congress of The Struggle, the Marxist Tendency in Pakistan, was held. Here we provide a little taste of the congress, plus some fragments of Lal Khan speaking on Marxism on national television.
[Audio] Marxism, the national question and the nation state At a meeting in London recently Linda Clarke of the Socialist Appeal talks about Marxism in relation to the national question. Linda talks about the history and evolution of the nation state, the meaning of bourgeois nationalism, and deals with the particular circumstances of the national question in relation to Scotland, Ireland and the position of the Marxists during the Falklands war.
[Audio] What's all the fuss? - HOV Britain at Cardiff university Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution held a meeting at Cardiff University in Wales on Wednesday evening. This meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken place in Venezuela over the last 10 years and to spread the message that is coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the 21st century - socialism.
[Audio] Britain and the world economy Mick Brooks of the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board spoke recently at a meeting organised by Socialist Appeal supporters in London on Britain and the World Economy, looking in particular at the financial panic that began in August.
[Audio] Alan Woods on the Relevance of Marxism Today "The Relevance of Marxism Today", a talk given by Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, London 29 October 2007. Listen to the file here.
[Audio] Marxism and Religion Alan Woods talks to the ULU Marxist Society on the topic of 'Marxism and Religion'. Alan explains the materialist conception of the world, integral to the theory of Marxism, and contrasts it to the idealist perspective that gives rise to religion. Alan explains the nature of religion as a means of consoling the oppressed with a life after death, the tendency of the church to break down along class lines, as well as the trade union credentials of God.
[Audio] The Relevance of Socialism in the 21st Century Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com and author of many books including Reason in Revolt and The Venezuelan Revolution: A Marxist Perspective, talks to the Oxford Brookes Socialist Society on the relevance of socialism in the 21st century.
[Audio] The History of Philosophy Alan Woods adresses the Greenwich branch of the Socialist Appeal on the need for philosophy, especially for those who are interested in the perspective of revolution. This talk begins with the materialist pre-Socratics of Greece, where real philosophy began, and the father of dialectics - Heraclitus.
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