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• 150 years of the Communist Manifesto
• 20 years since the invasion of Iraq the brutal legacy of imperialism
• 911 2001 US Suicide Bombing - Terrorism Aids Reaction
• A Curse Over The Balkans Nationalism and War in ex-Yugoslavia
• A house divided how Bolshevism and Menshevism first took form
• A most learned armchair fool Lenin versus the renegade Kautsky
• A Turn in World Politics
• Afghan Saur Revolution 1978 what it achieved how it was crushed
• An appeal for a rational discussion reply to Luis Oviedo
• An Unfortunate Document
• Art and the Class Struggle
• Attacks on Saudi oil facility and the changing landscape of the Middle East
• Audio Artificial intelligence and the nature of consciousness
• Audio Dialectical Materialism - the Philosophy of Marxism
• Audio History of Philosophy
• Audio Marxism and Darwinism
• Audio Marxism the national question and the nation state
• Audio Philosophy and dialectics
• Audio The Iranian Revolution and the question of the State
• Audio The Marxist Conception of History
• Audio The Marxist theory of the State
• Audio The National Question and Quebec
• Audio The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
• Audio The State and Revolution
• Audio The US hand in Venezuelas coup Hands off Venezuela interview
• Audio The War in Georgia and the National Question
• Blood and Gold the Spanish Conquest of the Americas
• Book Germany 1918-1933 Socialism or Barbarism
• Book Reason in Revolt Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science
• Book Thawra hattal nasr Revolution until Victory
• Book The Ideas of Karl Marx
• Book The Revolutionary philosophy of Marxism
• Book The Venezuelan Revolution A Marxist Perspective
• Book Understanding Marxs Capital A readers guide
• Book What is Marxism
• Brazil confronting American aggression without relying on Chinese imperialism
• British imperialisms role in the transatlantic slave trade
• Cameroon factional struggle conceals imperialist interests
• Cameroon the role of imperialism in anglo-francophone bloodshed
• Canadian imperialism stands back and watches coup unfold in Honduras
• Capitalism a history of horror without end
• Capitalisms economic singularities
• Capitalisms endless war against immigrants
• Chavistas march against imperialism what is the next step in Trumps coup
• China America and the Pacific
• Civilization Barbarism and the Marxist view of History
• Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
• Classics ABC of Materialist Dialectics
• Classics Anti-Dühring
• Classics Critique of the Gotha Programme
• Classics Dialectics of Nature
• Classics Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
• Classics On Authority
• Classics Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
• Classics Socialism Utopian and Scientific
• Classics The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• Classics The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State
• Classics The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
• Classics The Principles of Communism
• Classics The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
• Classics The State and Revolution
• Classics The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
• Classics Theses on Feuerbach
• Close to the Truth
• Coronavirus in Africa kick out imperialism
• Counter-revolutionary terrorist Luís Posada Carriles dead
• COVID19 in Africa To fight the virus fight imperialism
• Cuba Trumps threats constitutional reform and the economic situation
• Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases
• Demagogues and dictators what is Bonapartism
• Dialectical Materialism
• Dialectical Materialism and Science
• Disaster in the Balkans Stop the NATO bombing
• Dutch edition of Reason in Revolt out now - Preface
• El Isis a punto de ser derrotado mientras los imperialistas se preparan para la
• Engels and Human Development
• Engels was right
• Escalada de la agresión imperialista contra Venezuela - responder con medidas re
• Escalation of imperialist aggression against Venezuela respond with revolutionar
• Finland and Russia
• France reform the bourgeois police
• Frederick Engels 200 years since his birth
• Freedom and slavery the birth of capital
• From humanitarian aid to a nationwide blackout what next for Trumps coup in Vene
• From The Colonial Revolution and the Deformed Workers States
• From The Rise of De Gaulle and the Class Struggle
• Georg Lukács the Dialectics of Nature and the free creation of history
• Greece and Macedonia Unite against our common enemy
• Haiti a people struggling for their destiny
• Haiti imperialist aggression against Bolivarian Revolution sparks mass movement
• Hands Off Venezuela condemns UK High Court decision on Venezuelan gold Its dayli
• Hands off Venezuela End imperialist intervention now
• Helgoland a quantum physicists crusade against Lenin
• Historical Materialism
• Honduras the weak dictatorship imposes itself but faces opposition from the mass
• How British imperialism paved the way for the Nakba
• How Lenin fought for workers unity in the prison house of nations
• How Lenin studied Hegel
• How the Communist International was built
• Imperialism is Rebuilding Iraq as a Graveyard
• Imperialism today and the character of Russia and China
• Imperialist powers refuse money to feed Yemen
• IMT rejects jail sentences for Catalan political prisoners
• IMT statement regarding US embassy and the workers struggle in China
• In defence of dialectics a critique of Maos On Contradiction
• In Defence of Hegel
• In Defence of Lenin a treasure trove of ideas
• In scandalous last minute decision Trump designates Cuba as state sponsor of ter
• Internationalist solidarity with Central American migrant caravan
• Introduction to The ABC of Materialist Dialectics
• Introduction to the Brazilian edition of The History of Philosophy
• Introduction to the new Mexican edition of Lenins Imperialism
• Introduction to the Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism
• Iran the killing of Qassem Soleimani oppose US imperialist aggression
• Iraq Horror without end
• Ireland Common History Common Struggle from an error of emphasis to opportunism
• Ireland The national question is a social question
• Isis close to defeat as imperialists prepare for war
• Israel Palestine Trumps Deal of the Century the Two-State Solution reduced to
• Italy Lenin lives The IMTs Year of Lenin successfully launched in Naples
• Kashmir coronavirus curfews and ceaseless repression
• Keynes capitalisms utopian and impotent oracle of doom
• Kosovo and the bombing of Yugoslavia - A new crime of imperialism
• Law and Marxism 800 years since Magna Carta
• Law and Marxism the state and the constitution
• Lenin 100 years on
• Lenin 100 years on new issue of In Defence of Marxism magazine out now
• Lenin and Internationalism
• Lenin between the revolutions the writings that led to October
• Lenin communism and the emancipation of women
• Lenin in a Year an indelible legacy
• Lenin in a Year In Defence of Materialism by Alan Woods
• Lenin in a year The Development of Capitalism in Russia 1899
• Lenin in a year The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government
• Lenin in a Year The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
• Lenin in a Year The Three Sources and Component Parts of Marxism
• Lenin in a year writings of a revolutionary
• Lenin Lives Attend the launch of our international campaign
• Lenin on the National Question
• Lenin on the national question an eternal treasure of mankind
• Lenin on the Third International a new era in world history has begun
• LeninLives IMT celebrates Lenin 100 years after his death
• Lenins April Theses rearming the Bolsheviks for power
• Lenins Imperialism understanding reality in order to transform it
• Lenins struggle against bureaucracy
• Lenins struggle against imperialist war
• Lenins transitional programme Perish or forge full steam ahead
• Lunacy in London or Starmers Washington disaster
• Malaysia 50 years of independence - Colonialism at the root of the national ques
• Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments
• Mariátegui and the Permanent Revolution
• Marxism and philosophy
• Marxism and Religion
• Marxism and the National Question
• Marxism and the national question in Scotland
• Marxism and the State
• Marxism and the Struggle Against Imperialism Third World in Crisis
• Marxism and the theory of Long Waves
• Marxism Keynesianism and the crisis of capitalism
• Marxism Materialism and Art
• Marxism money and inflation
• Marxism or anarchism - An open letter to thinking anarchists
• Marxism the State and the Tributary Mode of Production
• Marxism under attack after the 1905 revolution Lenin fights back
• Marxism versus Sectarianism reply to Luis Oviedo
• Marxism vs libertarianism
• Marxism vs Modern Monetary Theory MMT
• Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science - Introduction to the ebook edition of Rea
• Marxists and the National Question
• Marxs revolution in philosophy - Reflections on the Theses on Feuerbach
• Military strikes on Syria what does it mean
• Monopoly capitalism imperialism and the world economy
• Montreal Marxist Winter School 2024 in defence of Lenin
• Morality and the class struggle
• Moroccan regime supports the coup in Venezuela we say let the people decide thei
• Muddleheadedness More on the subject of annexations
• Myanmar Saint Aung San Suu Kyi and the hypocrisy of imperialism
• NATOs messy entry into Kosovo
• New balance of forces emerges after the war in Kosovo
• New biography In Defence of Lenin pre-order now
• New edition of Lenins Materialism and Empirio-criticism available now from Wellr
• Nigerian elections postponed due to imperialist meddling
• NO COUP NO WAR HANDS OFF VENEZUELA
• Obama Afghanistan and general McChrystal
• Obamas Middle East Policy Still Imperialist
• Of Marx mice and Alberto Garzón
• On Engels Origin of the Family
• On Marxism and the State
• On the significance of militant materialism
• Once more Kosovo
• One of the Secret Treaties
• One year after the Catalan Republican October a balance sheet and some conclusio
• Origin of the family In Defence of Engels and Morgan
• Pacifism As The Servant of Imperialism
• Pakistan The ever growing power of China
• Podcast Art culture and the Russian Revolution
• Podcast In defence of Lenin
• Podcast Lies about Lenin debunked
• Podcast SpyCops exposed fake boyfriends blacklisting police infiltration
• Podcast What is the state and how do we smash it
• Podcast Why we need a Communist International season FINALE
• Poland May School In defence of Lenin Leninism lives
• Preface to the new edition of Engels Dialectics of Nature
• Quantum physics dialectics and society from Marx and Engels to Khrennikov and Ha
• Reading guide Marxism and the European Union
• Reformism or Revolution 11 The state and revolution
• Reformism or Revolution 3 Dieterich and historical materialism
• Rekindling communism the significance of Lenins The State and Revolution
• Review In Defence of Lenin by Rob Sewell and Alan Woods
• Russia the nature of the Putin regime
• Scientific revolution and materialist philosophy
• Scotland - Socialism or Nationalism - A Marxist Analysis
• Second edition of Reason in Revolt published in Greek
• Secrets of Foreign Policy
• Serbia and Kosovo the Balkan powder-keg could flare up again
• Social-Chauvinists and Internationalists
• Socialism or barbarism read the editorial of issue 52 of In Defence of Marxism m
• Solidarność 1980-1981 a working class revolution
• Special envoy Elliott Abrams brute of US imperialism
• Statistics and Sociology
• Still More Lies
• Syria The battle of Aleppo a turning point in world relations
• Ted Grant France In Crisis
• Ted Grant National Question in Europe
• Ted Grant Neither India or Pakistan For a Socialist Federation
• Ted Grant Stalin Versus Marx
• Ted Grant The Generals Capture France Workers must resist
• Ted Grant The one weakness of the outstanding Scottish Marxist John Maclean
• Tensions over the Arctic imperialists race to grab the loot
• The Black Death the pandemic that changed the world
• The capitalist curve of development
• The crisis in the communist movement we need to go back to Lenin
• The Crisis of Cosmology
• The Decisive Role of the Individual in History
• The Demonic Ape A critique of the BBC 2 documentary
• The Eighteenth Brumaire a masterpiece of Marxism
• The Epstein class exposed how the ruling class rules
• The essence of revolutionary communism new introduction to the Classics of Marxi
• The Falklands War - 20 years later
• The fall of woman property oppression and the family
• The Foreign Policy of the Russian Revolution
• The German Peasants War a revolution to bring Heaven to Earth
• The greatest event in human history Lenin and the Russian Revolution
• The Ideas of Karl Marx
• The ideas of V Gordon Childe In defence of historical materialism
• The imperialists are bleeding the poor and the poor are fighting back
• The individual and the Marxist view of history
• The Kosovo Peace Talks in crisis Natos New Lies
• The Kosovo Pogrom and the Balkan Powder-keg
• The living nightmare of the civil war in Libya imperialism is responsible
• The Materialist Conception of History
• The myth of Maos anti-imperialism
• The Netherlands and the decolonisation of Indonesia
• The new collection of Ted Grants writings are here and more relevant than ever
• The origins of class society
• The Origins of Our Species
• The Origins of the Family
• The relevance of Lenins Imperialism today
• The rise of the slave market in Libya and the hypocrisy of the EU
• The role of Slobodan Milosevic in the break-up of Yugoslavia
• The Role of the State and Social Democracy
• The role of the State in the Italian economy in the 1930s and beyond
• The Role of the State in the Space Race
• The role played by the state in the development of capitalism in Japan
• The slide to war have the ruling class gone mad
• The Spanish Revolution 1931-39 The National Question in the 1930s
• The state is more powerful than ever the view that big business alone shapes the
• The stinking hypocrisy of Trumps attack on Syria
• The struggle against reformism
• The Tet Offensive the turning point in the Vietnam War
• The Transitional Programme the method of Marxism in a time of crisis
• The Two Tactics of the 1905 Revolution a line is drawn between Bolshevism and Me
• The Ukraine
• The Vietnam War eye-opening documentary shows full horror of imperialism
• The Yugoslav inferno
• Top reads on the Ukraine conflict war and imperialism
• Trade unions in fascist Italy
• Trotskys struggle to rejuvenate the Bolshevik party
• Trump and Western imperialism hands off the Iranian protests
• Trump is going for regime change we say hands off Venezuela
• Ukraine Lebanon and the farce of national sovereignty
• US tightens the noose on Venezuela will the coup succeed
• USA how can the working class end police terror
• Venezuela 23 February the day they did not pass
• Venezuela coup in progress Guaidó proclaims himself president
• Venezuela declaration to the revolutionary people before the imperialist onslau
• Venezuela Failed Dialogue Foreign Threats and the Challenges Facing the Bolivari
• Venezuela imperialist pressure ramped up under guise of humanitarian aid
• Venezuela Maduro wins presidential election despite imperialist meddling what n
• Venezuela the counter-revolution raises its head stop the coup
• Venezuela the imperialist coup loses momentum and the government goes on the off
• Venezuelan presidential elections between imperialist aggression and economic cr
• Video 1917 Russian Revolution The Art of Insurrection
• Video Alan Woods interview Venezuela coup attempt and imperialist hypocrisy
• Video Crime Corruption and Capitalism the Crisis of the Bourgeois State
• Video Crisis and Capital Why Marx was right
• Video Dialectics from Hegel to Marx
• Video Dialectics science and nature
• Video Freedom and slavery the birth of capitalism
• Video From barter to Bitcoin what is money
• Video Idealism vs materialism mind and matter
• Video Keynesianism and the Post War Boom
• Video Marxism and science
• Video Marxist economics and the crisis of capitalism
• Video Marxist philosophy dialectical materialism
• Video Materialism and Dialectics in Ancient Greece
• Video Oppose the imperialist coup détat in Venezuela
• Video Origins of the Family Private Property and the State
• Video The fight against colonialism then and now
• Video The life and ideas of Lenin Marxist Student Federation school 2022
• Video The Marxist Critique of Postmodernism
• Video The Marxist view of history
• Video The Marxist view of history historical materialism
• Video The Origins of Marxist Economics
• Video The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism book launch with Alan Woods in NYC
• Video Workers control democracy and power
• War and revolution the case of Austria 1914-18
• Washington moves towards regime change in Venezuela
• Washington ups the stakes in ongoing attempt to overthrow Venezuelan government
• What is Bonapartism A reply to Révolution Permanente
• What is dialectical materialism
• What is historical materialism
• What is Marxism
• What is money
• What is to be Done How Lenin built a battle organisation
• What is Trotskyism Issue 51 of In Defence of Marxism magazine out now
• What makes us human
• What makes us human Questions raised by the discovery of Homo Floresiensis
• What was Lenins real position on the Ukrainian national question
• Where to Begin How the foundations of Bolshevism were laid
• Whos to blame for the crisis in Venezuela Can it be solved through negotiations
• Why Marxists oppose immigration controls
• Why we are Leninists
• Why we are Marxists
• Will the real Lenin please stand up A reply to the Morning Star