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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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We publish a talk by Alan Woods on the Marxists attitude to individual
terrorism, given at the Socialist Appeal day school in London late last
year. Of particular relevance following the assasination of Benazir
Bhutto in Pakistan recently, socialism must oppose acts of indiviual
terrorism - 'liberals with bombs' - because of the reactionary role
they play in the labour movement. Listen to part 1 and part 2.
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Hands Off Venezuela has produced new podcasts that will be available
monthly, containing news from Venezuela as well as the campaign's
activities around the world, extended features and music. Listen to the first four shows: Show 1 - Show 2 - Show 3 - Show 4
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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On Friday, December 7th, 2007, Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post
analysed the world's media biased coverage of the constitutional reform
referendum. Amongst those interviewed was Alan Woods, founder of Hands
Off Venezuela. Watch the video here.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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At the University of East Anglia recently Rob Sewell of the Socialist
Appeal gave a talk on the Miners strike in Britain 1984-5. The strike
was a culmination of the inevitable build up of tension between the
ruling and working class. In the post-war period the decline of British
imperialism had occured. The Tories of the 1980s were a rabid reaction
to that phenomenon, determined to destroy the organised labour movement
by taking on its most militant section, the National Union of Miners. Listen here to Part 1 and Part 2.
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By Fred Weston
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Fred Weston of the International Marxist Tendency, and editor of In
Defence of Marxism, talks on Leon Trotsky's theory of the Permanent
Revolution. This marxist concept constitued the main ideological
opposition to Stalin's theory of 'socialism in one country', which came
to be the dominant outlook of the Soviet bureaucracy, that grew out of
the isolation and degeneration of the young workers state. Part 1 and Part 2.
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By Linda Clarke
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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At a meeting in London in November 2007 Linda Clarke of the Socialist Appeal
talks about Marxism in relation to the national Question. Linda talks
about the history and evolution of the nation state, the meaning of
bourgeois nationalism, and deals with the particular circumstances of
the national question in relation to Scotland, Ireland and the position
of the Marxists during the Falklands war. Listen to part1 and part2.
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By Fred Weston
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution held a meeting at Cardiff University (Britain) on November 14, 2007. This
meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken
place in Venezuela over the last 10 years and to spread the message that is
coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the
21st century - socialism. Listen to Fred
Weston's introduction here and summing up here.
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By Mick Brooks
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Mick Brooks of the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board spoke recently
at a meeting organised by Socialist Appeal supporters in London on
Britain and the World Economy, looking in particular at the financial
panic that began in August. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Alan Woods talks to the ULU Marxist Society in London on the topic of 'Marxism
and Religion'. Alan explains the materialist conception of the world,
integral to the theory of Marxism, and contrasts it to the idealist
perspective that gives rise to religion. Alan explains the nature of
religion as a means of consoling the oppressed with a life after death,
the tendency of the church to break down along class lines, as well as
the trade union credentials of God. Listen to part 1 and part 2.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com and author of many books including Reason in Revolt and The Venezuelan Revolution: A Marxist Perspective, talks to the Oxford Brookes Socialist Society on the relevance of socialism in the 21st century. Listen here.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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In the first of a series of talks, Alan Woods adresses the Greenwich
branch of the Socialist Appeal on the need for Philosophy, especially
for those who are interested in the perspective of revolution. This
talk begins with the materialist pre-Socratics of Greece, where real
philosophy began, and the father of dialectics - Heraclitus. The
relevance to politics of having a philosophy is to explain the apparent
static reality of things, which is in fact a surface appearance that
conceals maturing contradictions. Part 1.1 and Part 1.2.
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