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How the Fourth International fought World War Two

Montage by Diego Rivera to commemorate founding of Fourth International

Theory, History, Imperialist conflict and war 6 May 2025

As the anniversary of the end of World War Two is celebrated, the world’s leaders are again recruiting soldiers and arming them with horrific new weapons in preparation for new conflicts, and possibly yet another, even more brutal world war.
This article examines how Trotskyists worldwide struggled, ‘despite all hazards’, to build the slender forces of the Fourth International (FI), intended to assist the working class to overthrow capitalism, and the bureaucratic, Stalinist elite in the USSR and replace them by genuinely democratic, international socialism to end poverty and war forever.

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Speech delivered at the Grave of Karl Marx by Frederick Engels

History, Anniversaries, Uncategorized 14 March 2025

To mark the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, we republish the Speech delivered at his grave by Frederick Engels March 17 1883. From the archive, 14 March 2025 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone

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Karl Marx’s revolutionary ideas: The working class and struggle

History, Anniversaries, Uncategorized 14 March 2025

14 March 1883 Karl Marx died. In truth, the validity of Marx’s theory of class struggle has been borne out by the history of the working-class movement. Eddie McCabe Socialist Party Ireland first published in 2018, 14 March 2025 Without the labour power of workers, capitalists can’t make profits. The system can’t function. Of all

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Lumumba: why popular hero of Congolese independence was assassinated

Africa, History 5 March 2025

Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa and the world. By Michel Munanga PSL/LSP – Belgium. This article was first published 17 January 2021 Patrice Lumumba was initially drawn from that stratum of the Congolese population on which the Belgian colonizer relied

Malcolm X: Hard Lessons from his Life and Death

Workers' struggle and solidarity, Racism and fascism, Anniversaries, Socialist feminism 21 February 2025

By Drew Frayne, Socialist Party Ireland, 21 February 2025 Sixty years ago el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, known to the world as Malcolm X, was murdered. His life is a map of 20th Century racism, and resistance to white supremacy, in the US and across the world. The personal and political life of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, known

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Towards a history of revolutionary Marxism

Theory, History 6 February 2025

Part 1: Origins of the Left Opposition In coming weeks, PRMI will be publishing a series of articles on the history of the revolutionary movement following the victory of the Russian Revolution, covering the formation of the Fourth International and its post WW2 degeneration, leading up to our recent history. By Walter Chambers, 6 February

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