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Theory articles

  • Theory / KKE leadership slanders international antifascist forum in Moscow

    The Greek party’s leaders continue to rebrand Trotskyite formulae as ‘Leninism’ to cover their inexcusable treachery at a pivotal moment in history.

    25 May 2025 , Youth Platform
  • Society / A class approach to the women’s struggle

    We must understand the history and class basis of women’s oppression, and build an organisation that facilitates their participation.

    30 Apr 2025 ,
  • Culture / Deepening party work in the cultural sphere

    The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one.

    27 Apr 2025 ,
  • British politics / Trotskyism – an imperialist, treacherous tendency

    Many, if not all, Trotskyite organisations are directly sponsored and promoted by the imperialist ruling class.

    27 Apr 2025 ,
  • British politics / Build the party of scientific socialism

    Only a party that follows Marxist dialectics and Leninist organisational principles can hope to lead the working class to liberation.

    27 Apr 2025 ,
  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • Congo / DR Congo under fire from M23 stooges

    Rwanda’s latest attack-dog offensive against Congo looks like an imperialist attempt to eliminate Chinese influence and re-exert control over Congo’s resources.

    1 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism

    Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.

    26 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Syria / The sad downfall of the Syrian government

    This is indeed a devastating setback for the long-suffering peoples of Syria and the wider region, but it is by no means the end of their liberation struggle.

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

    A racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism. Read the book they want to ban!

    31 Dec 2024 ,
  • Theory / Book: Trotsky(ism): Tool of Imperialism by Harpal Brar

    Unless the pernicious influence of this Trojan horse is rooted out, our movement will succeed neither in stopping imperialist war nor in overthrowing imperialist rule.

    10 Dec 2024 ,
  • Kenya / Message to Kenyan communists: Our struggle is one!

    The unfinished liberation struggle in Kenya has led to the outward semblance of independence without any real sovereignty.

    19 Nov 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The dead weight of old slogans: how Trotskyists justify their sell-out

    The Euro-American fake left are hiding behind 19th-century slogans that have no relevance to anti-imperialist struggles.

    31 Oct 2024 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Civil liberties / Role of the Labour government, and the workers’ necessary response

    The ruling class put Labour in power to try to manage the crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad.

    28 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / The Bolivarian Revolution: 25 years fighting imperialism

    Why the people voted President Nicolás Maduro and his PSUV government back into power.

    21 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

    How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

    10 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • World history / Josef Stalin on the Labour party and Nato

    ‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’

    5 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • France / The hollow ‘victory’ of France’s ‘new popular front’

    When is an antifascist not an antifascist?

    10 Aug 2024 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    How should Marxists approach union work? Which demands are most useful in developing workers’ class-consciousness?

    19 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • USSR / JV Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism?

    Josef Stalin’s decisive answer to the lies about October 1917 that Trotsky began to peddle straight after Lenin’s death in 1924.

    28 Jun 2024 ,
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

    20 Jun 2024 , Lalkar
  • Ukraine / On the essence of the Ukraine war and the lessons of Russia’s SMO

    What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

    17 Jun 2024 ,
  • Argentina / Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

    How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.

    28 May 2024 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / ‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain

    How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.

    29 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

    What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

    4 Apr 2024 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics or Class Politics?

    What are the origins of identity politics? And why are they so inimical to the working class’s struggle for socialism?

    20 Mar 2024 ,
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

    Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

    22 Feb 2024 , Lalkar
  • Georgia / Why reimagine Soviet Georgia?

    Despite 30 years of efforts to bury and vilify its memory, the resilience of communism remains undefeated.

    11 Feb 2024 , Monthly Review
  • Theory / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction

    What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?

    4 Feb 2024 ,
  • USSR / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time

    What are some of the key lessons we need to take from Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the coming period of rising revolutionary struggle?

    28 Jan 2024 ,
  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

    11 Nov 2023 ,
  • World / Joti Brar: How can workers learn the truth if everyone is too scared to tell it?

    We must respect the workers enough to believe they are capable of learning and we must create opportunities for them to do so.

    3 Nov 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Mass non-cooperation urgently needed to help end Gaza blitzkrieg

    Workers have power to prevent Britain’s continued military, propaganda and logistical support for zionist massacres.

    1 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

    27 Oct 2023 ,
  • Theory / How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

    What is the impact of the anti-Marxian theory of the ‘imperialist pyramid’?

    1 Oct 2023 ,
  • Russia / What is happening in the Russian economy?

    Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning.

    8 Aug 2023 ,
  • World history / Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

    Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution.

    4 Aug 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

    What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?

    12 Jun 2023 ,
  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

    3 May 2023 ,
  • USSR / Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle

    Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.

    28 Apr 2023 ,
  • British politics / Eulogies for Sturgeon highlight the fraud of Scottish nationalism

    If the SNP is really a threat to British imperialism, why has its leader been treated as such a saint by the corporate media?

    26 Apr 2023 ,
  • Theory / Spanish communist Miguel Ángel on the war in Ukraine and our tasks

    The ‘leftism’ of certain organisations is as useful to imperialism as right-wing revisionism or reformism, and must be resolutely opposed.

    20 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

    Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

    6 Mar 2023 , Daily Worker
  • Theory / Lenin lives!

    Why do the workers need a communist party; and what should communists be doing that no one else can?

    9 Feb 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

    25 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

    Seven decades of revisionist rot are revealed in the anti-Russia stance being taken by so many communist parties today.

    4 Jul 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Disappearing context: West created and backed Ukrainian fascists for 85 years

    The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.

    25 Jun 2022 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Food and decolonisation

    How is it that war in Europe should threaten people in Africa and the middle east with starvation?

    16 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Kim Il Sung: 110 years since the birth of Korea’s great revolutionary leader

    Workers all over the world have much to learn from this great Marxist, whose birth is celebrated in the DPRK as the Day of the Sun.

    15 Apr 2022 , Lalkar
  • Russia / Who benefits by falsely labelling Russia as ‘imperialist’?

    There is a growing and disturbing trend for self-styled ‘communists’ to join the Nato bandwagon in denouncing ‘Russian imperialist aggression’.

    11 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Western presstitutes rediscover international law after 77 years

    Will this admission turn out to have been a massive own goal?

    1 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

    Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

    16 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Connecting Marxism with the masses is the number one priority of communists

    Individually and as a collective we must constantly reassess whether our effort is being wisely spent.

    7 Mar 2022 ,
  • USSR / The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

    What do we mean when we talk about bureaucracy? How did it manifest in the Soviet Union? What was done by Stalin and the Bolsheviks to counteract it?

    25 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 3

    Eclectic and utopian, the CPB’s programme is full of pious wishes but its authors don’t seem to have the first clue about the realities of the state or of class war.

    17 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Is inflation good for you?

    What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

    5 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Yanis Varoufakis and Diem25: erratic Marxism and consistent anticommunism

    It is scientific socialism that workers need, not plausible lies about how to ‘fix’ social democracy, the EU, and capitalist imperialism itself.

    3 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 2

    On every question of importance, the CPB has ditched Marxism in favour of servility to the imperialist Labour party.

    8 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

    ‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

    20 Oct 2021 ,
  • Theory / Book review: China’s Great Road by John Ross

    The battle between socialist and bourgeois ideas is not one in which workers can be neutral: on its outcome, humanity’s fate depends.

    1 Oct 2021 , Lalkar
  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

    What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?

    1 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • China / Greetings to the Communist Party of China on its 100th anniversary

    Throughout the last tumultuous century, socialism has scored victory after victory in China, fully justifying the people’s faith in its superiority.

    30 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

    The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

    2 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune

    150 years on, Marx’s vivid portrait of the world’s first working-class government still impresses with its ‘short powerful strokes of such clearness and truth’.

    18 Mar 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

    Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

    23 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?

    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

    22 Oct 2020 , Lalkar
  • Korea / Korean victory in the Fatherland Liberation War: 70 years on

    ‘Our people have inherited the heroic spirit of the generation who defeated the US-led gang in 1953 – a de facto confrontation between the rifle and the atomic bomb.’

    21 Oct 2020 , Lalkar
  • Theory / Friedrich Engels 200 years on

    ‘What a torch of reason ceased to burn; what a heart has ceased to beat!’ – Comrade Lenin’s tribute to one of socialism’s great founders.

    18 Sep 2020 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Statues and the crimes of imperialism

    It is widely accepted that the imperial powers committed terrible crimes in the past, but is the past really so different from the present?

    21 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The oil slump and its ramifications

    In attempting to retain domination over the oil market, Saudi Arabia has alienated its most important ally, supporter and protector.

    19 May 2020 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

    In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

    11 May 2020 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

    Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?

    26 Apr 2020 ,
  • Theory / Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

    What is behind the theory that language structures in the mind are inborn?

    24 Apr 2020 ,
  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

    Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

    5 Dec 2019 ,
  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

    27 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

    15 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

    12 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • China / Chinese forum discusses humanity’s shared future

    Why is China so far ahead of the imperialist countries in its development of green technologies?

    5 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!

    Progressive humanity continues to cheer the incredible achievements of the tiny island nation, made in the teeth of determined and unceasing imperialist aggression.

    14 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The only thing that unites us is class

    Socialists must avoid the trap of bourgeois identity politics if they are to make headway in uniting the working class against capitalism.

    7 Dec 2018 ,
  • Science and technology / Right to repair: a threat to monopoly superprofits

    Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism!

    28 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

    Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm?

    22 Nov 2018 ,
  • Working-class history / Marx 200: A brief overview of an extraordinary life’s work

    Why does Marx's name still strike fear and loathing into the hearts and minds of the bourgeoisie so many years after his death? What is the legacy that refuses to die?

    19 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Theory / What is the significance of dialectical materialism for science?

    Marxist philosophy is not a science above other sciences; it is an instrument of scientific investigation.

    31 Oct 2018 ,
  • Economy / Sanctions: a self-defeating weapon

    The tectonic plates of the world order are beginning to shift as a consequence of imperialist parasitism.

    1 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Trump’s trade wars

    US tariffs have increased the uncertainty in an already volatile system, and represent a new milestone in its aggressive policy towards China.

    2 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Trump and US capitalism in perspective – interest rates and the Federal Reserve

    The US government is rolling big in the capitalist casino.

    13 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx

    The founder of the modern proletarian movement who gave his life to furthering the science of class struggle.

    25 Apr 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / How can we stop imperialist war?

    If our unions take principled positions against British war crimes, we will have the backing we need to refuse to cooperate as individuals.

    12 Feb 2018 ,
  • USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

    What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / VI Lenin: Report on the tasks of Soviet power

    Speech by Lenin to the first meeting of the Petrograd soviet of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / VI Lenin: To workers, soldiers and peasants!

    Decree issued by the second all-Russia congress of soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies immediately after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / VI Lenin: The immediate tasks of the Soviet government

    Excerpt from the pamphlet by V I Lenin, written in April 1918.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / JV Stalin: The tasks of economic executives

    Excerpt from Stalin’s speech to the first all-union conference of leading personnel of socialist industry, February 1931.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Marx on Ireland: how colonialism abroad divides workers at home

    Two letters give Marx’s insight into the connection between the liberation struggle of the Irish and the British workers’ struggle for socialism.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Martin McGuinness: 1950-2017

    Irish revolutionary leader and working-class hero.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: So you want to be a hero?

    A reader puts some pertinent questions to any young person thinking of joining the armed forces.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Culture / Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective

    Part 1. The times make the man: Shakespeare’s historical context

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Why British workers need a Brexit

    Leaving the EU would undoubtedly weaken the ability of British, European and US imperialists to dominate the globe.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Black and white, unite and fight!

    Racism is built into the system of exploitation, and will not be abolished until that system is replaced by socialism.

    1 Aug 2015 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Time to face it: capitalism must go!

    Only a planned economy designed to meet people’s needs can solve the problems of disease, poverty, inequality, war and environmental degradation.

    3 Mar 2013 ,
  • World history / Review: Ten Mile Inn by Isabel and David Crook

    This seminal work continues to bring the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers.

    1 Oct 2012 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Communists and the struggle against imperialism

    In the present era of crisis and war, our movement must return to and unite around the profound truths contained within the works of our movement's founders.

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
  • Tunisia / Intifada in Tunisia and the fall of Ben Ali

    The long-awaited harbinger of a wider revolt against reactionary Arab regimes.

    1 Dec 2010 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Mao Zedong on contradiction

    A masterly exposition of how to use dialectics to change the world, by the leader of the Chinese revolution.

    1 Feb 2009 , Proletarian
  • Theory / The dictatorship of the proletariat

    What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?

    1 Oct 2008 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Letter to a comrade overcome by pessimism

    Living in an imperialist country, where the movement is weak and at a low ebb, it is easy to get discouraged or disillusioned with communist work.

    1 Apr 2006 , Proletarian
  • Zimbabwe / Book: Chimurenga! The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

    A vital lesson in the importance of solidarity with anti-imperialist national-liberation struggles.

    1 Aug 2005 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Lenin on party building

    What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?

    1 Aug 2005 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Save humanity: the ticking time bomb of climate change

    Even faced with their own destruction, the imperialists are incapable of doing anything to prevent a climate catastrophe.

    1 Apr 2005 , Proletarian
  • Theory / Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?

    What is the role of theory in the communist movement? How should it affect the work we do?

    1 Feb 2005 , Proletarian
  • Theory / The three contradictions of imperialism

    As monopoly capitalist imperialism continues its inexorable decline, we can see the profound truth of Marx's observation that the system creates its own gravediggers.

    1 Oct 2004 , Proletarian

Theory topics

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  • Anti-imperialism
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • Fascism
  • KKE
  • KPRF
  • Opportunism
  • Revisionism
  • Victory over fascism
  • WW1
  • WW2
  • WW3
  • Philosophy
  • Tenth congress
  • Women
  • Anticommunism
  • CPGB-ML
  • Socialist realism
  • Youth
  • Leninism
  • RCP
  • Social democracy
  • Trotskyism
  • Media lies
  • Theory

Theory video

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon episode 11: Bourgeois ‘stability’ or socialism?

    In an era of rising social discontent, more and more people are questioning what they used to believe was the ‘natural’ state of affairs.

    23 Apr 2025, Proletarian TV
  • Syria / How the left failed Syria

    Trade union and antiwar leaders in Britain facilitated the destruction of the middle east’s longest-surviving sovereign territory.

    3 Apr 2025,
  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 3: Building socialism

    Wiping out feudal and imperial control and laying the basis for a modern industrial economy, New China set the stage for the sovereignty and dignity of its people.

    18 Aug 2024, Proletarian TV
  • British politics / Ella Rule: ‘Proletarian revolution is our number one objective’

    For a revolution to succeed it must be led by a competent revolutionary party, closely linked to the masses and trusted by them.

    3 Aug 2024, Proletarian TV
  • World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Imperialism and war

  • Palestine / Ranjeet Brar: Palestine Catastrophe: from British mandate to al Nakba

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: the Sino-Soviet split

  • Theory / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The immortal legacy of VI Lenin

  • Greece / Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos: The crushing of the Greek revolution

  • Niger / Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

  • Divide and rule / Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill

  • Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin is still key to understanding imperialism and war

  • Theory TV / The global drive to war and the launch of the World Anti-imperialist Platform

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 4: The cultural revolution

  • Yugoslavia / British delegates in Belgrade: Nato is trying to expand the war in Europe

  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

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