BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - YouTube A Workers’ International Network meeting Sunday 19th June As part of our weekly programme of discussion meetings, over the next few months WIN will be running an occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals. These meetings are not intended to be dry academic seminars but dynamic collective inquiries into the lessons of our common … [Read more...]
What Was Stalinism?
by Roger Silverman (2003) Socialists today still find themselves under the dark shadow that Stalinism has cast over the history of the twentieth century. It is more than ten years since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Russia and Eastern Europe – overthrown in many cases by workers’ uprisings. These were hideous, corrupt, vicious regimes, and workers rightly celebrated their downfall as … [Read more...]
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE – 20 MAR 22
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE - 20 MAR 22 - YouTube Discussion introduced by Michael Roberts (Author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism and of the blog The Next Recession). The economic war between the US-led NATO group and Russia is hotting up alongside the real war in Ukraine itself. In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the US … [Read more...]
The Laws of Capitalist Crisis – Discussion
The Laws of Capitalist Crisis - Ed Bober leads off - YouTube WIN Sunday Discussion meeting 9th January 2022 … [Read more...]
The Struggle for Democracy
ED BOBER asks whether democracy can ever be compatible with capitalism and examines how a real workers’ democracy would operate Across the world, revolutions are breaking out against the ravages of neo-liberalism. In the past, demonstrators have demanded a change of government; today’s demonstrations are seeking ways of changing the whole system! Some spark sets off a … [Read more...]