There’s a lot of debate going on in the various YourParty groups and on social media about whether YourParty should be overtly socialist or not. This is a very good and very important discussion for all of us to engage in. What is socialism? What do we all mean by Continue Reading
War
Ukraine war two years on – who are the winners and losers?
This article is based on Will McMahon’s introduction to the 19 February Talking About Socialism event which you can watch here. Between the last quarter of 2022 and March 2023 over 60,000 Ukrainian troops were given training in NATO countries, and accompanying military supplies, in preparation for the Spring Offensive Continue Reading
Yemen: Towards the Abyss
This article is based on the notes for an introduction given by Chris on 22 January which, along with the discussion afterwards, can be watched on YouTube: ‘Yemen: Towards the Abyss’ Nothing quite demonstrates the British government’s alleged commitment to containing the growing war in the Levant like slavishly following Continue Reading
Building TAS in 2024
This is a revised version of an introduction given by Will McMahon at the ‘Talking About Socialism – from a Marxist Point of view’ online discussion given on Monday 8 January 2024 to take account of events taking place in the following week Building Talking About Socialism – from a Continue Reading
Sunak, Shapps and Starmer beat the war drum
In a speech delivered at Lancaster House in London on Monday 15 January 2024, titled Defending Britain from a more dangerous world, UK Defence Minister Grant Shapps evoked the spirit of previous war-mongering Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to prepare the British public for war. War on many fronts. War that will Continue Reading
Palestine: The political background to Israel’s war on Gaza
This article is an edited version of a talk given by Moshé Machover to a ‘Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view’ online discussion on the subject, on Monday 13 November 2023. I will place present events in their historical context. As the General Secretary of the United Nations said, these events are Continue Reading
No money for war in Ukraine
Oppose GMB Motion 71 The British Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a federation of 48 trade unions, representing 5.5 million trade union members. The 155th annual TUC Congress (conference) takes place in Liverpool on 10-13 September 2023. A motion on the agenda from the GMB union (Motion 71) seeks to commit Continue Reading
Military spending accelerates
It will soon be reported that Bakhmut has fallen. With Russian bombs raining down, and GPS guided bombs destroying Ukrainian positions, Ukrainian forces will have little option but to retreat to a new front line having suffered, like the Russians, thousands of casualties. It is generally assumed that NATO and Continue Reading
In whose interest?
Coming from one of the leading figures on the British left, a Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 – 2020, John McDonnell’s recent article “The Ukrainian Question for Socialists” requires comment: all the more so because it argues that it is an inescapable conclusion that socialists Continue Reading
What is socialism?
Welcome to this Marxist website. Its aim is to promote Marxist ideas, analysis and discussion. Against the background of the failed experience of Corbynism in the UK and the rout of the socialist left inside the Labour Party, and with the development of a new wave of industrial working-class militancy, Continue Reading