All Arguments for socialism subcategories:
Marxism keywords:
Filter by importance | All results
20 June 2018
1000 issues of the Socialist: A vital weapon standing in proud traditions
To mark the 1000th issue of the Socialist, which was launched in 1997, we interviewed Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary and former editor of Militant, the predecessor of the Socialist.
2 May 2018
200 years of Karl Marx: Marxist ideas more relevant than ever
Marx was born 200 years ago on 5 May. Together with Engels, he formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world
2 May 2018
Letters to the Socialist's editors including Liverpool 47 commemoration, Trotsky 1917, NHS tax and hairdressing.
11 April 2018
Striking analysis in heat of 1917 will deepen any reader's understanding
Non-fiction: Trotsky in 1917: 'Trotsky in 1917' is the most complete collection in English of some of the contributions of Leon Trotsky, one of the Russian revolution's key leaders alongside Vladimir Lenin, in that crucial year
14 March 2018
The Mexican communist and artist Frida Kahlo is to be immortalised as... a Barbie doll. This farcical, tone-deaf plan is part of US multinational Mattel's 'celebration' of International Women's Day.
18 October 2017
October 1917 reviews: 'More bright than any heaven'
The October revolution showed countless millions that workers have the power to stop exploitation and oppression. It's no surprise these events inspired marvellous documentary and artistic works. The Socialist revisits some of the classic accounts of 1917 - and comments on some more recent efforts to smear it...
18 October 2017
Russia, October 1917: When workers took power
The centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile - not mainly aimed at the February revolution, but at October
4 October 2017
Che Guevara 50 years on - revolutionary socialist and fighter
Many people identify with the legacy left by Che as a symbol of struggle, defiance, internationalism and a socialist world.
27 September 2017
Lessons of October new edition out now!
A new edition of Lessons of October, by Leon Trotsky, is out now from Socialist Books!
13 September 2017
Trotsky's "insightful and frank examination" of revolution out soon
New reprint - Lessons of October: "We met with success in the October revolution, but the October revolution has met with little success in our press."
9 August 2017
Marx's Capital at 150: an unequalled analysis and critique of capitalism
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."
26 July 2017
Russia 1917: how art helped make the revolution
Revolution in Russia swept away the dictatorial rule of the Tsar in February 1917. Then in October, led by the Bolshevik Party, a second revolution set up the world's first workers' state
12 July 2017
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Scrap the pay cap; keep guards on trains; responses to the 1 July anti-Tory demo, Homeland's poor politics; sickness stats; Poland and Trotskyism
12 July 2017
July Days 1917: battles with counterrevolution
Massive demonstrations involving nearly a million people erupted in Petrograd on 2-3 July 1917, in a colossal outburst of anger and discontent
6 July 2017
Lessons from the Russian revolution for LGBT+ struggle today
When the Soviet Criminal Code was established in 1922, male homosexuality was not included as a criminal act
17 May 2017
Barcelona May Days 1937 - a civil war within a civil war
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the 'May Days' in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Below is a reply to an article in the Observer on 7 May (both this and a shorter version were unpublished) by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe.
12 April 2017
Livingstone, Labour and anti-Semitism
The continuing battle over Ken Livingstone's Labour Party membership has shown how the issue of anti-Semitism has become an important part of the party's internal struggle.
29 March 2017
April 1917: how the Bolsheviks reorientated
Lenin's arrival from exile on 3 April 1917 turned the Bolshevik party upside down and changed the course of history.
8 March 2017
Why I joined: "I began to feel really exploited and to think about why"
I first heard about socialism from my mum when I was about 7 or 8. I remember being in the car and she had a Billy Bragg album playing. The Red Flag was on it and I asked her what it was about and what it meant and she sort of explained what socialism was.
1 March 2017
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Worse-off women; farm fiends; Trotsky and Poland.
Search entire database:
LATEST POSTS
13 Nov Leicester East Socialist Party: How revolution ended World War One
13 Nov Bristol North Socialist Party: Report from the Socialism 2018 event
14 Nov Leicester West Socialist Party: Environmental catastrophe - does socialism offer a way out?
14 Nov Salford Socialist Party: German Revolution and WW1 - 100 years on
CONTACT US
Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777
Email: info@socialistparty.org.uk
Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206
Regional Socialist Party organisers:
Eastern: 0798 202 1969
East Mids: 0773 797 8057
London: 020 8988 8786
North East: 0784 114 4890
North West 07769 611 320
South East: 020 8988 8777
South West: 07759 796 478
Southern: 07833 681910
Wales: 07935 391 947
West Mids: 02476 555 620
Yorkshire: 0114 264 6551
ABOUT US
ARCHIVE
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999