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Disagreements in the CWI RS began two years ago. Following weeks of arguments, disagreeing comrades (about half of the section) created a faction. For a short time the faction took the leadership of the section, but for simplicity we shall use the term “leaders” for those who remained in CWI, and the term “faction” for those who left. 
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Mason is portrayed, and portrays himself, as a “man of the left,” based largely on his membership in the group Workers Power in the 1980s.
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In an article on World War I, Lenin once remarked that, “Capitalist society is and has always been horror without end.” In discussing the early development of capitalism in his classic, Capital, Marx said that upon its arrival in history “capital ...
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Ben Peck speaks on the phenomenon of Jeremy Corbyn and the state of the class struggle in Britain.
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He's a democratic socialist. She's a capitalist. But they both love Denmark!
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The making and remaking of class
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Speaking at the recent World School of the International Marxist Tendency, Fred Weston discusses the Euro Crisis and its effect in Greece, looking at the rise ...
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Revolution is neither an act of will nor inevitable--it is the result of the interplay of material conditions and the actions of social groups and classes.
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Representatives of the Socialist Party of Great Britain explain how the party is working for the abolition of capitalism and the introduction of a classless society.
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Representatives of the Socialist Party of Great Britain explain how the party is working for the abolition of capitalism and the introduction of a classless society.
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This 2012 report by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North provides the critical theoretical and historical background to the events in Greece, where the pseudo-left Syriza has risen to state power and rapidly capitulated to the...
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In his essay, adapted from a lecture delivered in 2013, Varoufakis makes clear that he is neither a Marxist nor a revolutionary, but at best someone whose politics can be described as vaguely reformist. He is not a member of Syriza, but was chosen to represent the government precisely because of these views. He wants nothing more than to convince the ruling elite that they risk plunging the continent into an economic and political catastrophe and to advise them to take an alternative path.
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