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.

This audio file, recorded on the 11th June at the Socialist Appeal London aggregate, hears Rob Lyon talk on the National Question in relation to the current and historical situation in Quebec.

The debate in Venezuela about socialism and property relations in particular can benefit from the experience of workers' control in factories like Sanitarios Maracay and Inveval. This is a video interview screened on VIVE TV, where Gonzalo Gómez interviews workers from Sanitarios Maracay. (in Spanish)

A few days ago, Alan Woods was interviewed by the BBC 4 radio programme PM about Venezuela. Although parts of the interview were cut, it is is significant that a Marxist was able to speak on the Venezuelan Revolution, socialism and Hugo Chavez since this was broadcast in prime time, between 5pm and 6pm. The full radio programme can be listened to here but we compiled a 5 minute mp3 file of the part where Alan is speaking.

Este es un fragmento de video de 10 minutos mostrando a Alan Woods en la televisión venezolana. Alan desenmascara el mito de que el hay que construir el socialismo gradualmente, y responde al argumento de los reformistas de que de lo contrario la democracia estaría amenazada. Por el contrario, el propio Chávez ha hablado de la necesidad de una "revolución dentro de la revolución" para contrarrestar a la burocracia.

After the first video on the struggle at Sanitarios Maracay, a factory in Venezuela under workers' control, Hands Off Venezuela has produced a second video showing how the workers are holding a workers' assembly and how they discuss and vote on issues such as nationalisation. Topics covered include the previous boss's acts of sabotage, logistics of workers' control and socialism of the 21st century.

Este es un fragmento de video de 11 minutos mostrando a Alan Woods en la televisión venezolana. Alan habla de la amenaza de contrarrevolución en Venezuela y se opone a la noción de que la revolución es irreversible. En la medida en que las palancas fundamentales de la economía sigan en manos privadas la oligarquía puede volver. Alan Woods está en firme desacuerdo con las ideas reformistas expresadas por intelectuales tales como Heinz Dieterich.

Este es un fragmento de video mostrando a Alan Woods en el canal de TV de la Asamblea Nacional. Alan discute sobre su libro Razón y Revolución, y explica desde un punto de vista marxista qué es la revolución, qué significa el socialismo y cómo se puede evitar el surgimiento de una burocracia.