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Theory articles

  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

    Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

    5 Dec 2019 ,
  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

    27 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

    15 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

    12 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • China / Chinese forum discusses humanity’s shared future

    Why is China so far ahead of the imperialist countries in its development of green technologies?

    5 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The only thing that unites us is class

    Socialists must avoid the trap of bourgeois identity politics if they are to make headway in uniting the working class against capitalism.

    7 Dec 2018 ,
  • Science and technology / Right to repair: a threat to monopoly superprofits

    Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism!

    28 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

    Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm?

    22 Nov 2018 ,
  • Working-class history / Marx 200: A brief overview of an extraordinary life’s work

    Why does Marx's name still strike fear and loathing into the hearts and minds of the bourgeoisie so many years after his death? What is the legacy that refuses to die?

    19 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Theory / What is the significance of dialectical materialism for science?

    Marxist philosophy is not a science above other sciences; it is an instrument of scientific investigation.

    31 Oct 2018 ,
  • Economy / Sanctions: a self-defeating weapon

    The tectonic plates of the world order are beginning to shift as a consequence of imperialist parasitism.

    1 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Trump’s trade wars

    US tariffs have increased the uncertainty in an already volatile system, and represent a new milestone in its aggressive policy towards China.

    2 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Trump and US capitalism in perspective – interest rates and the Federal Reserve

    The US government is rolling big in the capitalist casino.

    13 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx

    The founder of the modern proletarian movement who gave his life to furthering the science of class struggle.

    25 Apr 2018 ,
  • USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

    What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Culture / Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective

    Part 1. The times make the man: Shakespeare’s historical context

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Black and white, unite and fight!

    Racism is built into the system of exploitation, and will not be abolished until that system is replaced by socialism.

    1 Aug 2015 , Proletarian
  • World history / Review: Ten Mile Inn by Isabel and David Crook

    This seminal work continues to bring the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers.

    1 Oct 2012 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Communists and the struggle against imperialism

    In the present era of crisis and war, our movement must return to and unite around the profound truths contained within the works of our movement's founders.

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Mao Zedong on contradiction

    A masterly exposition of how to use dialectics to change the world, by the leader of the Chinese revolution.

    1 Feb 2009 , Proletarian
  • Theory / The dictatorship of the proletariat

    What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?

    1 Oct 2008 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Lenin on party building

    What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?

    1 Aug 2005 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Lenin’s What is to be Done?

    What is the role of theory in the communist movement? How should it affect the work we do?

    1 Feb 2005 , Proletarian
  • Theory / The three contradictions of imperialism

    As monopoly capitalist imperialism continues its inexorable decline, we can see the profound truth of Marx's observation that the system creates its own gravediggers.

    1 Oct 2004 , Proletarian

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  • Philosophy
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  • Anti-imperialism
  • Comintern
  • October revolution
  • Revisionism
  • Social democracy
  • WW1
  • WW2
  • Food industry
  • Inequality
  • Anarchism
  • The state
  • Anti-communism
  • Josef Stalin
  • Trotskyism

Theory video

  • Economy / Can the food crisis be solved?

    More than enough food is produced to feed the the whole of humanity, yet millions suffer from a chronic shortage of food. What is causing this contradiction?

    1 Jul 2019, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Anarchism or socialism?

    Why has no anarchist led a successful revolution? Why are their seemingly revolutionary activities ultimately so fruitless?

    29 Jun 2019, Proletarian TV
  • USSR / Grover Furr on the continuing revolution in Stalin-era history

    Exposing the psychological warfare that has been waged against workers under the banner of ‘Soviet studies’.

    21 Jun 2019, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?

    What was Trotsky’s theory of ‘permanent revolution’? What was his approach to organisation? And how have his theories become the tools of the capitalists?

    7 Jun 2019,
  • Theory TV / The Communist Manifesto

  • Culture / Shakespeare: bard of a rising class

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on the state and revolution

  • USSR / The fall of the USSR

  • Theory TV / What is Marxism? 2. Marxist economics

  • British politics / Workers for Brexit: why our party supported leave in the EU referendum

  • Divide and rule / Michael Parenti on the absurdity of IdPol oppression hierarchies

  • Divide and rule / The women’s movement in Britain

  • Divide and rule / Women’s liberation needs socialism

  • Theory TV / What is Marxism? 1. Philosophy

  • Theory TV / Trotskyism Q&A

  • World TV / The drive to war against Russia and China

  • Theory TV / Why do Marxists support the Syrian government?

  • Capitalist crisis / Economics 101: Capitalism

  • History TV / Tribute to Marx on his 200th birthday

  • Theory TV / Dialectical and historical materialism

  • Theory TV / The origin and development of class society and the state

popular content

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    Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

    Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

  • 2

    The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

  • 3

    The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

  • 4

    Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

  • 5

    Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

  • 6

    Royal Mail: high court bans the strike

  • 7

    Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

  • 8

    Dr Bob Gill: The NHS conspiracy

  • 9

    Grover Furr on the continuing revolution in Stalin-era history

  • 10

    One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

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