Could America go communist?
Class struggle is back on the agenda in the USA. Workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Apple, and elsewhere are beginning to organise and unionise. Workers and youth are becoming increasingly radicalised - lo...
30 Mar 202342min
Storming heaven: The Paris Commune
On 18 March 1871, the masses of Paris rose up and established the first ever workers' state, known as the Paris Commune. In this talk, Josh Holroyd covers these brief but heroic events, and draws out ...
21 Mar 202359min
Women, the family, and the Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution made colossal steps in the fight for women's liberation, far greater than any other movement - today or in history. In this talk, Natasha Sorrell discusses how the Bolsheviks ap...
8 Mar 202350min
Sovereignty and independence: The national question in Ukraine
We are often told that the war in Ukraine is being fought in defence of democracy and national self-determination. In this talk, Jorge Martin details the real reasons for the war, and the complex hist...
3 Mar 202359min
Profits vs peace: War and imperialism
Amidst the carnage of the First World War, Lenin characterised capitalism as “horror without end”. Today, the grim truth of that statement can be seen in the proliferation of brutal conflicts around t...
22 Feb 202355min
The 1925-27 Chinese Revolution and the role of Stalinism
From 1925 to 1927, the young Chinese working class waged a revolutionary struggle against the decaying order of the warlords and imperialists. Tragically, the errors of the Stalinist Comintern led to ...
15 Feb 20231h
Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution (Book launch)
Within the Irish Republican movement, there have always been two tendencies: one which sees the struggle for Irish liberation as solely a nationalist question, and another which correctly sees it as a...
10 Feb 20231h 6min
The 1930s Great Depression: Could it happen again?
The Great Depression was the most severe crisis of the capitalist system in the 20th century. In the years following the Wall Street Crash, industrial production in the West collapsed, and world trade...
8 Feb 202343min
