Marx Talks

Clash of empires: the USA versus China today - Tom Bramble

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:03:25 GMT

Marxism 2023

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The national question - Robin Laycock

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:02:52 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Chip wars: the cutting edge of imperialism - Omar Hassan

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:02:15 GMT

The tensions between the US and China have been steadily escalating under the Trump and Biden administrations. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of microchips, where the US has been making it increasingly difficult for China to acquire cutting edge equipment and knowhow. This matters because chips are vital to nearly every sector of the economy, from AI and telecommunications through to the military-industrial complex. At the same time, China is the biggest customer for the major US chip firms. This talk explored the implications of these various conflicts and contradictions for the future of the world system.

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Percy Brookfield: Australia's rebel parliamentarian - Duncan Hart

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:01:39 GMT

Marxism 2023

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The united front - Liam Parry

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:01:04 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Wobblies! The Australian Industrial Workers of the World - Jasmine Duff

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:19 GMT

The Industrial Workers of the World were one of Australia's earliest revolutionary organisations. Their iconoclastic, rabble rousing approach to organising workers gained them the trust of many thousands. This session looked at the rise and fall of the 'Wobblies' (as they were known.)

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Under the paving stones: May 1968 and the French Trotskyists - Erin Russell

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:59:34 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Crisis: the global economy today - Eleanor Morley

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:58:05 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Marx, Ireland and the colonial world - Moira Nolan

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:57:20 GMT

Marx has often been accused of a lack of interest in the questions of colonialism. This session refutes such claims by exploring Marx's attitude to the Irish question.

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What would a revolution look like? - Xavier Dupe

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:56:16 GMT

Marxism 2023

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100 years of Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness - Robert Narai

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:55:32 GMT

Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923, is primarily seen as one of the great works of Marxist philosophy. But Lukács was also a commissar in the failed Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 and a political leader in the exiled Hungarian Communist Party in Vienna throughout the 1920s. Along with labour leader Jenö Landler, Lukács led a faction opposing an ultra-left sectarian orientation represented by Béla Kun (at that time also associated with Comintern chairman Zinoviev, later aligning himself with Stalin). This session explores History and Class Consciousness and his work in the 1920s through the lens of this factional struggle and the degeneration of the Comintern, examining it as an attempt to reconstruct the theory and practice of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, understand the leading role the working class must play in the struggle for democracy in Hungary, and rebuild the Hungarian Communist Party along these lines.

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Big Brother at work & the surveillance state: how can workers rebel? - Alexis Vassiley

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:54:17 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Unions, the ALP and the ebb tide 1983-1996 - Josh Lees

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:53:27 GMT

Marxism 2023

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The Communist Party of Australia and the unions in the 1940s and 1950s - Grace Hill

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:52:29 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Gandhi, the left and Indian independence - Shovan Bhattarai

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:51:53 GMT

The ideas of Mahatma Gandhi have had a lasting impact on the left, from the civil rights movement of the 1960s right through to the movements against corporate greed and racism that are developing today. Many see Gandhi as the embodiment of politically-effective pacifism.The success of his nonviolent strategy, however, is largely a myth. This talk discuss' the relationship that Gandhi had to the Left and the debates between them in the context of a struggle for independence.

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Scenes from American Trotskyist anti-fascism 1930s-1940s - Vashti Fox

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:51:12 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Broad parties and revolutionary independence: summing up the debates - Mick Armstrong

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:50:25 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Bolsheviks, elections and party building - Jerome Small

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:49:30 GMT

Marxism 2023

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The Fatal Shore: why did the British colonise Australia? - Kyla Etoile

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:46:31 GMT

The dominant explanation for why the British colonised Australia is that their prisons were overflowing and they needed the space for transportation, but is that the whole picture? This talk will offer a Marxist explanation for the colonisation of Australia by Britain.

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The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism: Socialist feminist debates - Clare Francis

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:45:33 GMT

Marxism 2023

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From apostles to terrorists: the early revolutionary movement in Russia - Sarah Garnham

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:44:28 GMT

Tsarist rule in nineteenth century Russia consisted of brutal oppression and political repression. Attempts at liberalisation were farcical and the society was extremely backwards in comparison to most European countries. In this context emerged a layer of student revolutionaries drawn mainly from the nobility. They wanted a fundamental overturning of Russia's political and economic structures. Throughout the period from 1860-1880 they dedicated themselves to this task with tremendous bravery, creativity, integrity and daring. They began with propaganda work among the peasants, trying to stir them into action but, the failure of this strategy and the experience of extreme repression, led them to terrorism. The populism and terrorism of this time were ultimately hopeless, and were superseded by Marxism and working class organising in the following decades. However, this movement helped to build a revolutionary tradition in Russia. This talk will look at the strengths and weaknesses of this early revolutionary movement, and discuss the impact it had on the Bolsheviks and the two workers’ revolutions that swept Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Fascism - Luca Tavan

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:43:45 GMT

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Lessons from the global fight for abortion rights - Omar Hassan, Liz Walsh

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:43:00 GMT

The overturning of Roe vs Wade (and therefore the banning of legal abortion in much of the USA) sent shockwaves throughout the world and in Australia prompted a reinvestigation of our own abortion rights. This session will look at successful campaigns for abortion rights in a number of countries and ask how they might inform our own struggles.

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John Brown: abolitionist firebrand - Ryan Laws

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:42:18 GMT

History's forgotten heroes don't get much more radical than the legendary John Brown. Born during the time of the great revolution of the Haitian slaves, he believed he was "an instrument of God", raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation". He attempted to lead a slave revolt when he raided an armoury at Harpers Ferry - an act which help push the country inexorably toward the Civil War. But this was only the final act of a man who had committed his life to the destruction of slavery and an uncompromising hostility to oppression of all kinds.

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Paradise on strike: class struggle in the Pacific - Vinil Kumar

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:41:23 GMT

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Stalinism and Literature - Dougal McNeill

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:40:23 GMT

Stalinist counter revolution was experienced in all aspects of life, both in the USSR and in the global Communist movement. As part of the project of establishing political hegemony the Stalinist bureacracy sought to develop and enforce particular styles of cultural production. In literature the preferred style was socialist realism. This session will start by discussing debates that occurred in and around the Soviet Writers Congress of 1934 about the nature of proletarian art, modernism and socialist realism and conclude with an investigation of the politics of the Popular Front.

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Sounding the French Revolution: A Marxist tour of Classical Music - April Holcombe

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:39:36 GMT

Marxism 2023

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Understanding Stalinism and its impact - Liam Parry

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Marxism 2024

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From overthrowing a government to getting rid of capitalism: political and social revolutions - Ruby Healer

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Do revolutions have the potential to create an entirely new kind of society, or do they merely replace one type of government with another? There have been countless revolutionary moments in which mass movements toppled dictators and smashed powerful empires, but left capitalism fundamentally intact – Germany 1918; Portugal 1976; Egypt 2011 and many more. No revolution begins with millions of people simultaneously deciding to destroy the existing system completely, yet struggles like these can raise issues and questions which point the way to a socialist solution. This session will discuss how political struggles can undermine the broader capitalist system and make possible the total transformation of our social reality, as well as the obstacles to be overcome for such a transformation to take place.

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How the South African working-class defeated apartheid - Sandra Bloodworth

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

For almost five decades, racial segregation was enshrined and institutionalised South Africa. Apartheid was a system based on brutal racism which oppressed and exploited the majority of Black workers while maintaining the enrichment and rule of a white minority. This session will discuss what it took to overthrow apartheid - the heroic resistance within South Africa along with the solidarity of workers and student movements across the globe, as well as explore the broken promises and betrayals of the ANC.

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Fortress Europe: militarisation and border control - April Holcombe

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO – pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior – have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military budgets and inflows of combat-ready troops and cutting-edge hardware, looks forward to welcoming additional member states. This militarisation of Europe will only add further fuel to an increasingly unstable international system riven with political tensions. This talk will explore why European militarism is on the rise and the dangers it poses for the future.

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Disrupting the Australian war machine: lessons, strategies, tactics

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Jerome Small, Mick Armstrong, Yasmine Johnson

From the late 1960s a mass movement against the brutal US and Australian war in Vietnam shook Australian society. Thousands of radical students and young people resisted conscription and marched in the streets, linking up with workers who went on strike and refused to transport material for the war. This blazed a trail for other movements in the 1970s, 80s and 90s against the nuclear fuel chain, US bases, and the arms industry. With new wars and imperialist tensions building today, there’s a clear need for a new movement of resistance to the war machine, building on lessons from the radical movements of the past.

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Why only a revolution can win socialism - Eddie Stephenson

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:14:24 GMT

Marxists argue that a workers' revolution is necessary to overthrow capitalism. In the last decade, uprisings have broken out in Sudan, Chile, Algeria, Hong Kong, Myanmar and more. Many of these revolts began with specific demands about democracy, inequality, or opposition to military rule. In all of them, the social power of organised workers played an important role in threatening the status quo. But how could a revolution go further and dismantle capitalism?

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The Civil Rights movement and the struggle against Jim Crow - Chloe Rafferty

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:13:43 GMT

Marxism 2024

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What was the Communist Party of Australia? - Hersha Kadkol

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:12:47 GMT

For decades the Communist Party of Australia was the most prominent organisation claiming to build a left-wing alternative to the Labor Party. Thousands of working-class activists inspired by socialist politics joined the Communists and helped to build the party into a major force on the left. However the Communist Party was stained by all the problems of Stalinism: support for authoritarian dictatorships, a reformist practice combined with a sterile Stalinised “Marxism”, and a hostility to genuine socialism from below. Ultimately it proved to be a barrier, rather than an instrument, for the building of revolutionary politics in Australia. For those of us wanting to build a socialist movement today understanding what went wrong with the Communist Party is vital.

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Social class and fascism - Ella Marchionda

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:11:53 GMT

Fascism confronts us today not just as a dark chapter in twentieth century history, but as an emerging danger in our own times. It demands serious analysis, yet the explanation offered by mainstream thinkers is deeply unsatisfactory. Theorising fascism requires an understanding of the capitalist societies in which it emerges, the crises these societies produce and the class tensions inherent to them. This is the focus of the session.

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Why the Arab regimes are no friends of Palestine - Bella Beiraghi

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:11:13 GMT

Most supporters of Palestine tend to view the issue in nationalist terms, as a struggle with the Palestinians and the broader Arab world on one side, and the Israeli state and its western allies on the other. Yet any serious look at the situation today, or at the history of the 20th century for that matter, shows that the Arab states have done nothing to seriously challenge Zionism or its Western backers. This talk will explore some of this history, and explain why Arab elites are not simply unreliable allies, but are actually complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Fascism, Hindutva and the Modi government - Sagar Sanyal

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:10:33 GMT

Indian politics is dominated by the personality of Narendra Modi. Since his re-election in 2019, there has been a steady erosion of democracy and an increase in state and mob violence towards India’s 195 million Muslims. But Modi, and the government he leads, cannot be understood without looking at the growth of the powerful National Volunteer Organisation (RSS), an extra-parliamentary fascist movement of 4 million active members. The RSS is rooted in Hindutva, an extremist Hindu nationalist tradition which has had links with European fascism since the 1920s. This session will discuss the politics behind the rise of fascism in India today.

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Sexism, homophobia and transphobia - Shovan Bhattarai

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:09:51 GMT

In the period of industrial capitalism, the nuclear family structure was enforced on working class populations to ensure a stable working class to be exploited. While women’s oppression existed before capitalism, capitalism reshaped it and used new structures to enforce it. Capitalism also created conditions for identities outside of the accepted sexual and gender norms, and oppressed LGBTI people on this basis. Mass movements against oppression and class struggle have helped to improve the conditions of women and LGBTI people. However, gender-based oppression is still baked into capitalism. This session will explore how capitalism constructs gender and sexuality and how we can fight for women and LGBTI liberation.

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The fight for equal pay for women - Clare Francis

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:09:01 GMT

Equal pay for women was only made law in 1974. The systematic underpayment of women for the same work as men was an important profit-making mechanism for the capitalist class - one which they weren't willing to give up without a fight. This session will it look at the industrial militancy, defiance and rebellions led by working class women and men, which paved the way for legal wage equality in Australia.

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The roots of racism - Vinil Kumar

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:08:20 GMT

Racism is a crucial component of the capitalist system. Racism stems from the slave plantations of the Americas - as Eric Williams explained, “slavery was not born of racism—rather racism was the consequence of slavery.” Racism has persisted beyond the abolition of slavery- used to justify colonialism, exploitation of migrant workers, imperialism and more. This session will discuss the roots of racism, how it persists and how it can be ended.

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Nuclear imperialism: the destroyer of worlds - Liz Ross

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:07:53 GMT

Marxism 2024

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Narco-capitalism: a political history of drugs - Emma Black

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:06:47 GMT

From the opium wars of the 19th century to the opioid epidemic of the 21st, capitalism's drive for profit has driven addiction and dependency on drugs for centuries. At the same time, the use of drugs has been regulated and criminalised by the state, as a means of social control and a pretext for political repression. This talk will explore the relationship between capitalism and drugs.

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Socialists, Communists, Bundists and Zionists: Jews on the left in the 1930s - Janey Stone

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:06:02 GMT

The contemporary narrative of Jewish history is one of ghettos, pogroms, suffering, oppression – Jews as the eternal victims. But in the 1930s, Jewish political currents engaged with non-Jewish socialists in struggle: they fought fascists, engaged in tenants' strikes, formed defence groups, led mass demonstrations and linked up with the struggles of other oppressed groups. From New York to London to Warsaw, Jews engaged in class struggle and fought anti-Semitism as part of a wider left. Janey Stone, co-author of forthcoming book The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands, will look at the different political currents and how their strategies played out in this tempestuous decade.

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WWI and the struggle for an internationalist left - Mick Armstrong

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:04:27 GMT

4 August 1914 was a decisive turning point for the socialist movement. The capitulation of the majority of parties of the Second International to pro-war chauvinism exposed a fundamental division between reformists and revolutionaries. This talk will examine the developments in the socialist movement that explain the abandonment of an anti-war standpoint by the leadership of key parties such as the German Social Democratic Party. It will then focus on Lenin's role in attempting to develop a principled anti-war standpoint and lay the basis for a working class movement to end both the war and the capitalist system that breeds wars.

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High school rebellion: from the Vietnam War to the school strike for Palestine

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:03:38 GMT

Diane Fieldes, Eva Sutherland, Audra Hope

Despite being dismissed, patronised and subject to constant discipline, high-schoolers have always been at the forefront of fighting for social change and radical politics. The recent school strikes for Palestine were only the latest in a long line of protests, rebellions and uprisings against the system that have been led by students. This session will feature stories of high school rebellion from Eva Sutherland and Audra Hope, two organisers of the School Strike for Palestine, and Diane Fieldes, a veteran socialist activist who began protesting as a high-schooler during the Vietnam War.

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Killer cops, racist politicians and culture wars: anti-Indigenous racism today - Oskar Martin

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:02:54 GMT

Australia is a profoundly racist society: police continue to kill Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, land rights are overturned to dig up fossil fuels, the Liberals claim that Indigenous people get “unearned privileges” and that colonisation was “positive”, vigilante racists whip up attacks on Indigenous young people and the gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous people on income, health, education and housing endures. Meanwhile, the Labor party offers only symbolic recognition for Indigenous people, not structural change, and Labor state governments continue to lock up Aboriginal kids. This talk will explain why anti-Indigenous racism is still so common today, and what we can do to fight back against it.

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Capitalism and cities: a critique of David Harvey's theory of urban development - Josh Lees

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:01:42 GMT

When it comes to a socialist analysis of cities, David Harvey is a towering figure, with decades of influential writing on the subject. He offers a searing critique of how our urban environments are shaped by the priorities of capitalism, and champions urban rebellions. However, his analysis rests on a problematic reading of Marxism and capitalist crisis, and an approach to anti-capitalist resistance which takes us away from working class struggle, in favour of more ill-defined and ultimately ineffective struggles over space. This session will offer a critique of Harvey and an alternative Marxist approach.

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Climate destruction and crisis: understanding capitalism and the profit motive - Lily Campbell

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:44 GMT

The relentless drive for profit which is a defining characteristic of capitalism is condemning the world to catastrophic environmental disaster. The competition, free markets and pursuit of profit that capitalism’s apologists tell us deliver optimal outcomes are threatening to destroy the planet on which the system depends. Those with the power to act won’t. This discussion looks at why capitalism does this, why it can’t stop and why we need a new system if we want environmental security.

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Auto-capitalism: a political history of cars - James Plested

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:59:55 GMT

It's estimated there are around 1.5 billion cars in the world today. Of the ten largest corporations of the world, three are car manufacturers and six are oil companies. There's no doubt about it – capitalism loves cars. Cars burden working-class people with debt, they mean we spend hours stuck in traffic just trying to get to work, they devour public space and poison the air. This isn't the fault of working-class people – private car ownership is promoted aggressively by the capitalist class, and cities are constructed to make cars necessary. This talk will look at the relationship of cars to industry, urban planning and social control.

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Prisons, police and parliaments: understanding the capitalist state - Liam Ward

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:02:55 GMT

Marxists argue that the capitalist state – parliament, police, the legal system, the education system and more – enforces the interests of the rich. This goes beyond corporate lobbying, political donations, racist policing or unequal laws – but is fundamental to the nature of the capitalist state. How to understand the state is one of the core debates in the socialist movement, and shapes socialist strategy: Is it possible to reform the system through parliament? Should socialists boycott elections? What does it mean to ”smash" the state? This session will engage with all these important questions.

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The Politics of Judith Butler - Emma Norton - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:21:41 GMT

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Sexism and Class in Australia Today - Louise O'Shea - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:20:36 GMT

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Parasites and collaborators: Understanding the Palestine Authority - Nick Everett - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:19:30 GMT

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Syria after Assad - Omar Hassan - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:18:38 GMT

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Does international law matter? - Owen Marsden-Readford - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:17:50 GMT

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Luxemburg: A libertarian alternative to Lenin? - Amelia Christie - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:16:58 GMT

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The Left and the struggle for Algerian independance - Vashti Fox - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:15:42 GMT

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How do we resist the new backlash against Indigenous rights? - Jordan Humphreys - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:14:25 GMT

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The weaponization of anti-Semitism - Daniel Taylor - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:13:35 GMT

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30 years of Socialist Alternative - history and perspectives - Mick Armstrong - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:12:22 GMT

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Nasser and Arab Nationalism - Mick Armstrong - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:11:12 GMT

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Australia: The Neighbour from Hell - Kaye Broadbent - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:59:58 GMT

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Foundations: Stalinism and its impact - Lewis Todman - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:59:09 GMT

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Foundations: Women's Oppression - Kelly Cvetkova - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:58:13 GMT

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Are We Living In Post Capitalism - Grace Hill - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:56:55 GMT

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The Destroyer of Worlds: The 80th Anniversary of the Atom Bomb - Ella Marchionda - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:56:01 GMT

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Into the mainstream: Understanding the Communist Party of Australia - Duncan Hart - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:54:58 GMT

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Torture, rendition and massacre: The War on Terror 20 years on - Cathy Lewis - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:53:46 GMT

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Australia as a 21st century military power - Sam Pietsch - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:49:47 GMT

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Radical intellectuals in the ivory tower? The limits of leftist academia - Deaglan Godwin - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:48:29 GMT

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Lord of the Rings - A Fascist Fantasy? - Luke Hocking - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:47:34 GMT

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Guerillaism and Trotskyism in the 1960s - Rebecca Barrigos - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:45:54 GMT

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The strikes that made International Working Women's Day - Liz Ross - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:45:05 GMT

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Year of fire: The Soweto Uprising - Ella Gutteridge - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:43:56 GMT

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Jabra Nicola and Palestinian Trotskyism - Josh Lees - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:42:25 GMT

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Beneath the Stones: 1968 Student Rebellion - Madi Curkovic - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:41:06 GMT

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A History of socialist electoral projects in Australia - Corey Oakley - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:39:57 GMT

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What is the socialist approach to Parliament? - Liz Walsh - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:06:05 GMT

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Star Wars: Capitalism In Space - Danica Rachel - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:01:17 GMT

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Socialist Strategy: The General Strike - Kath Larkin - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:59:37 GMT

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Marxism and War - Chloe Rafferty - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:52:16 GMT

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Whiteness and the working class: A Marxist Response - Vinil Kumar - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:50:29 GMT

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Identity Politics in movements today - Shovan Bhattarai - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:46:10 GMT

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Capitalism and sexual objectification - Sarah Granham - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:23:07 GMT

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Israel and the USA - who controls who? - Oula Shihan - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:21:06 GMT

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The enemy of my enemy: campism - Eleanor Morley - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:20:02 GMT

Given the US domination of the world system, some on the left claim that any nation that opposes the US - such as China, Iran and Russia - should be supported when they clash with Washington. This approach, known as campism, is often associated with an attempt to paint these nations as socialist or, in some way, progressive. This talk will discuss the historic roots of campism and why anti-imperialist leftists should reject it. Recommended Reading: Confronting the Stalinist legacy by Corey Oakley in Marxist Left Review Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism by Dan La Botz China and the U.S. Left - A Dialogue Between Critical China Scholars and Spectre

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The rise and fall of the Arab spring - Naomi Farmer - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:17:52 GMT

The 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa started in Tunisia and spread across the region as far east as Bahrain on the Arabian Gulf. They shook and overthrew decades-long repressive monarchies and presidencies and opened up the possibility of social transformation. Yet, within a couple of years, the uprisings had been snuffed out as a result of both repression and their political weaknesses. What lessons can we learn from these uprisings and their defeat? All are welcome to reflect on and analyse these momentous events. Recommended Reading: Ten years since the great Arab revolutions by Omar Hassan in Red Flag Marxism and the Arab revolutions by Sandra Bloodworth in Marxist Left Review

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Balfour to 1948: The Foundations of Israel - Yasmine Johnson - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:15:30 GMT

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A new era of fascism? Understanding the far-right threat - Robert Narai - Marxism 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:45:07 GMT

The far right is on the march everywhere. Donald Trump and his MAGA coterie now command the world’s most powerful and violent state. Across Europe, parties with historical links to 1930s fascist parties are surging in France and Germany, are on the verge of taking power in Austria, and currently rule Italy and several other Central European countries. Pogromist violence directed at migrants erupted in the United Kingdom last year and Nigel Farage’s Reform party is now surging in the polls. Narendra Modi’s BJP party both commands the Indian state and a paramilitary organisation of millions. Are we witnessing the birth of a new era of fascism? This session will draw on the revolutionary Marxist tradition and the historical experience of fascisms past in order to understand the unique and terrifying threat the far-right poses in our present—and what we can do today to fight and ultimately defeat them. Recommended Reading: *‘No-one saves us but ourselves’: we have to resist the far right in Red Flag* *The many faces of fascism by Ruby Healer in Red Flag* *For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right by Thomas Hummel in Tempest Magazine* *Disaster Nationalism Is The New Fascism by Richard Seymour in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung* *Living in ‘Late Fascism’: an interview with Alberto Toscano in The Majority Report* *The Authoritarian Disposition: Capitalism, Liberalism, Fascism by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R Webber in Spectre Journal* *Post-Fascism: Fascism as Trans-Historical Concept by Enzo Traverso in Crisis and Critique* *Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today by Alex Callinicos in International Socialism Journal*

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