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Raw Originals: Marxist Theory

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314 articles

• "The Eighteenth Brumaire": a masterpiece of Marxism
• #LeninLives: IMT celebrates Lenin 100 years after his death
• 150 years of the Communist Manifesto
• 9/11 2001: US Suicide Bombing - Terrorism Aids Reaction
• [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 Venezuela's coup: Hands off Venezuela interview
• [Audio] The War in Georgia and the National Question
• [Book] Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism
• [Book] Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science
• [Book] Thawra hatta’l 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 Marx’s Capital: A reader’s guide
• [Book] What is Marxism?
• [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
• [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] Why we need a Communist International – season FINALE!
• [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
• [Video] Alan Woods interview: Venezuela coup attempt and imperialist hypocrisy
• [Video] Dialectics, science, and nature
• [Video] Dialectics: from Hegel to Marx
• [Video] From barter to Bitcoin: what is money?
• [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 d'état in Venezuela!
• [Video] Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State
• [Video] The fight against colonialism: then and now
• [Video] The Marxist view of history
• [Video] The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism: book launch with Alan Woods
• A Curse Over The Balkans?: Nationalism and War in ex-Yugoslavia
• A house divided: how Bolshevism and Menshevism first took form
• 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
• Blood and Gold: the Spanish Conquest of the Americas
• Brazil: confronting American aggression without relying on Chinese imperialism
• British imperialism’s 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’s economic singularities
• Capitalism’s endless war against immigrants
• Chavistas march against imperialism: what is the next step in Trump's coup?
• China, America and the Pacific
• Civilization, Barbarism and the Marxist view of History
• Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
• Close to the Truth
• Coronavirus in Africa: kick out imperialism!
• Counter-revolutionary terrorist, Luís Posada Carriles – dead
• COVID–19 in Africa: To fight the virus, fight imperialism!
• Cuba: Trump's 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 guerra
• Engels and Human Development
• Engels was right!
• Escalada de la agresión imperialista contra Venezuela - responder con medidas revolucionarias
• Escalation of imperialist aggression against Venezuela: respond with revolutionary measures
• 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 Trump's coup in Venezuela?
• 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: “It’s daylight robbery!”
• Hands off Venezuela! End imperialist intervention now!
• Helgoland'': a quantum physicist’s crusade against Lenin
• Historical Materialism
• Honduras: the weak dictatorship imposes itself but faces opposition from the masses
• 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 Mao's '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 terrorism”
• 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 Lenin’s Imperialism
• Introduction to the Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism
• Iran: the killing of Qassem Soleimani – oppose US imperialist aggression
• Iraq: Horror without end
• Ireland: The national question is a social question
• Ireland: ‘Common History, Common Struggle’ – from an error of emphasis to
• Isis close to defeat as imperialists prepare for war
• Israel & Palestine: Trump’s “Deal of the Century” – the “Two-State Solution” reduced to absurdity
• Italy: Lenin lives! The IMT’s ‘Year of Lenin’ successfully launched in Naples!
• Kashmir: coronavirus, curfews and ceaseless repression
• Keynes: capitalism''s 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 and Internationalism
• Lenin between the revolutions: the writings that led to October
• 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”
• Lenin, communism and the emancipation of women
• Lenin: 100 years on
• Lenin: 100 years on – new issue of "In Defence of Marxism" magazine out now!
• Lenin’s ''Imperialism'': understanding reality in order to transform it
• Lenin’s struggle against bureaucracy
• Lenin’s struggle against imperialist war
• Lenin’s transitional programme: “Perish or forge full steam ahead”
• Lenin’s ‘April Theses’: rearming the Bolsheviks for power
• Lunacy in London, or Starmer’s Washington disaster
• Malaysia: 50 years of independence - Colonialism at the root of the national question
• 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 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)
• Marxism, Keynesianism, and the crisis of capitalism
• Marxism, Materialism and Art
• Marxism, money, and inflation
• Marxism, the State, and the Tributary Mode of Production
• Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science - Introduction to the ebook edition of Reason in Revolt
• Marxists and the National Question
• Marx’s 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 their own destinies!
• Muddleheadedness (More on the subject of annexations)
• Myanmar: ‘Saint’ Aung San Suu Kyi and the hypocrisy of imperialism
• NATO's 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 Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-criticism: available now from
• Nigerian elections postponed due to imperialist meddling
• NO COUP! NO WAR! HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!
• Obama, Afghanistan and general McChrystal
• Obama’s Middle East Policy: Still Imperialist
• 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
• Origin of the family: In Defence of Engels and Morgan
• Pacifism As The Servant of Imperialism
• Pakistan: The ever growing power of China
• 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 Haven
• 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 Lenin''s ''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’
• 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
• 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 essence of revolutionary communism: new introduction to the ''Classics
• 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 Ideas of Karl Marx
• The ideas of V. Gordon Childe: In defence of historical materialism
• The Kosovo Peace Talks in crisis: Nato's 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 Mao’s ‘anti-imperialism’
• The Netherlands and the decolonisation of Indonesia
• The new collection of Ted Grant’s writings are here, and more relevant than
• The origins of class society
• The Origins of Our Species
• The Origins of the Family
• The relevance of Lenin’s "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 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 new world order is wrong
• The stinking hypocrisy of Trump's 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 Ukraine
• The Vietnam War: eye-opening documentary shows full horror of imperialism
• The Yugoslav inferno
• The ‘Two Tactics’ of the 1905 Revolution: a line is drawn between Bolshevism and Menshevism
• Top reads on the Ukraine conflict, war and imperialism
• Trotsky’s 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?
• 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 onslaught, we must go on the offensive!
• Venezuela: Failed Dialogue, Foreign Threats, and the Challenges Facing the Bolivarian Revolution
• Venezuela: imperialist pressure ramped up under guise of “humanitarian aid”
• Venezuela: Maduro wins presidential election, despite imperialist meddling – what next?
• Venezuela: the counter-revolution raises its head – stop the coup!
• Venezuela: the imperialist coup loses momentum and the government goes on the offensive, but where does that leave the people?
• Venezuelan presidential elections: between imperialist aggression and economic crisis
• 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 Lenin's real position on the Ukrainian national question?
• Where to Begin? How the foundations of Bolshevism were laid
• Who’s to blame for the crisis in Venezuela? Can it be solved through negotiations? A response to Gabriel Hetland and “The Nation”
• 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
• “A most learned armchair fool”: Lenin versus the renegade Kautsky
• “The greatest event in human history”: Lenin and the Russian Revolution
• “Trade unions” in fascist Italy