What we’re dealing with is value and price and I would remind you that the only way you can test the validity of Marx’s theories or the theories of any other economist is to apply the test as to whether they satisfactorily explain what goes on in the modern world. We should ask the question…

Lo que sucedió en París en marzo de 1871 debe haber parecido en ese momento una tremenda agitación política. El gobierno francés perdió el control de París durante unos meses a manos de un consejo municipal, o “comuna”, formado por republicanos extremos cuya bandera era la Bandera Roja y que proclamaban la Emancipación del Trabajo. De…

Karl Marx died on the 14th of March 1883. The work he did lives on. An enormous amount has been written about him as an individual and about his materialist philosophy; less has been written about his work on economics. His theory of surplus-value is still largely ignored. Of those few who have written on…

“Red Clydeside” first put itself on the map in the agitated years of the First World War. Since then, it has received plenty of examination. It has been portrayed as a possible revolution in the making; one that could have formed a link with the Bolsheviks and the Spartacists. The Clyde Workers’ Committee was the main body…

In opposition to the conventional notion that the present form of society has always existed, the Socialist points out that it has existed for not more than a few centuries, and was preceded by other forms of society. In point of fact, the life history of the human race is made up of a series…

Desde que Rusia invadió Ucrania a finales de febrero, la respuesta de Occidente (es decir, estados Unidos y aquellos estados protegidos por sus armas nucleares) ha sido declarar la guerra económica a Rusia. Podría ser correcto bajo el capitalismo, las sanciones son un arma que los estados poderosos pueden usar para tratar de imponer su…

Gran parte de nuestro planeta está sufriendo olas de calor y sequías con temperaturas récord y los expertos dicen que no se trata de incidentes aislados, sino de un presagio de eventos climáticos que serán cada vez más comunes en el futuro a medida que aumente el calentamiento global. Namrata Chowdhary, del grupo activista ambiental,…

“The human race is gradually learning the simple lesson that the people as a whole is wiser for the public good than any privileged class of men, however refined and cultivated.” Lewis Henry Morgan This is by way of being an invitation. We are addressing the young and enthusiastic members of left-wing organisations duped by the hot air of insincere politicians. We…

From the March 2004 issue of the World Socialist newsletter Borders – Who needs them? The Spanish word for a national border is La Frontera. Often these arbitrary partitions are emphasized with different types of walls meant to keep people out. Some contemporary examples are, for instance, the now toppled Berlin W all, and the current wall Israel is…

From April 2004 World Socialist newsletter   The Time for Socialism is Now When our ancestors left the safety and security of the trees for the vagaries of the plains, they were embarking on a long, subconscious, and often painful journey to attain mastery over the earth’s resources. The goal of countless millennia of sweat and endeavour,…