Category Archives: History & Theory

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On 30 January 1968 the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the People’s Army of Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive against US and allied troops in South Vietnam. On the 50th anniversary of this key stage in that war, weContinue reading “Vietnam War: 50 years since the Tet Offensive”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The Daily Mail reacted with predictable hysteria when, in May 2017, John McDonnell stated: “You can’t understand the capitalist system without reading Marx’s Das Kapital.” When asked to immediately condemn his shadow chancellor, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused toContinue reading “Marx’s Capital at 150: an unequalled analysis and critique of capitalism, still relevant today”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. 50 years after his assassination “The centerpiece of Malcolm’s political project was to internationalize the condition of Black peoples in the United States.” Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America 21st FebruaryContinue reading “History: The political legacy of Malcolm X”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Clare Doyle reviews ’Eleanor Marx – A Life’ by Rachel Holmes Eleanor Marx was an extraordinary woman – youngest daughter of an extraordinary man, Karl Marx, and of Jenny, his lifelong partner through revolution and counter-revolution. Many socialists knowContinue reading “Review: ‘Eleanor Marx – a life’”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. An article written by LEON TROTSKY, exposing the hypocrisy of world powers towards national minorities and oppressed peoples, translated into English for the first time Continuing our series to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the firstContinue reading “Trotsky: ‘The national principle’”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Before 1914, the Second International resolved to act to prevent war… Before 1914, the Second International, grouping together socialist and workers’ organisations throughout Europe, resolved to act to prevent war. Once war had been declared, however, nearly all ofContinue reading “1914: The capitulation of the Second International”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest labor revolts in U.S. history: the strikes of the Minneapolis Teamsters in 1934. Led by socialists, this historic strikeContinue reading “History: Revolutionary US Teamsters”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. 40th anniversary of the founding of the CWI To mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Workers’ International on April 21st 1974 we are publishing here three items. The first is an interview withContinue reading “CWI: History of the Committee for a Workers’ International”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Martin Luther King moved from a position for a gradual reform of capitalism towards an understanding that more radical ideas were needed. "The size of the mobilization on that hot August day in 1963 was unprecedented; the upbeat, confidentContinue reading “US: “I have a dream” – 50th anniversary of the march on Washington for
jobs and freedom”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool Listen to the interview here Source: BBC