What is money? – Part One
What is money? Where does it come from? and what does it represent? Photo: Pictures of Money/Flickr What is money? – PartTwo What is money? – Part Three What is money? – Part Four
Read MoreElection 2016: America’s Most Unwanted
The champions of the free market never miss an opportunity to extol its virtues: peace, prosperity, efficiency, integrity, a wide range of freedoms, and let’s not forget: lots and lots of choices. If you work hard and play by the rules, you too can get ahead. However, far from the myth peddled by the free […]
Read More“Saint” Teresa of Calcutta: a fanatical stooge of the ruling class
Indeed, the saint-making business is thriving these days (in three years Francis has canonised 29 saints). Pope Francis has also been careful to varnish the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and its pantheon of saints with a gloss of social justice. Francis has attempted to paint his newest saint as a friend of the poor, […]
Read MoreTurkey: “Sloppy coup” serves as temporary lifeline for Erdoğan
Dramatic events shook Turkey yesterday as armed troops moved onto the streets of Istanbul and Ankara. They closed down the main airports and bridges while military jets were roaring very low above the cities. A coup was in the works.
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Britain: Two Labour Parties – The right wing is heading for a split
We are living in a period of sharp and sudden changes. The result of the British EU referendum was yet another such sharp and sudden changes. In a further dramatic turn of events yesterday the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party voted by a majority of 14 to 18 to allow Jeremy Corbyn […]
Read MoreTrotsky’s “Stalin”: Pre-orders launched! Order your copy today!
This year, Wellred Books has been working on the completion of a historic project. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence is the final unfinished masterpiece of the great Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Painstakingly restored over a ten-year period, this version will be the first to include all of Trotsky’s own words in full, […]
Read MoreBritain: Chilcot report rocks the Establishment
The Chilcot report into the 2003 Iraq war and how Britain was dragged into it has finally been published after a delay of seven years. It fell like a bombshell on the British political scene that was already reeling from the effects of the EU referendum.
Read MoreBrexit vote sends shockwaves across European Establishment
Yesterday, 23rd of June 2016, the people of Britain made a momentous decision. After 40 years as part of the European Union they voted to turn their backs on it. This decision has immense consequences for the future of Britain, Europe and the world.
Read MoreVideo Link -The Socialist Alternative to the European Union
In advance of the upcoming referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – explains the real motivations of the Stay and Leave camps, which are both dominated and led by reactionaries. The EU referendum is a fight between two wings of the Tory Party. Rather […]
Read MoreNew Zealand Perspectives 2016
This perspectives document should be viewed as an addendum to the 2015 document. As the general processes outlined in the previous document are apparent in the present situation. The New Zealand economy is still showing signs of weak growth of about 3% GDP per year in 2015. As previously explained the majority of the […]
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