This is a speakerscorner.net radio show by Heiko Khoo. The author was on the Berlin Wall the day it fell and lived in East Berlin at that time. Listen to sounds and speeches from the November 1989 demonstrations and interviews with eyewitnesses and participants of the movement.

A speech at the North European IMT Winter School in Berlin held in January 2009 on the Fall of the Berlin wall and the East German revolution by Heiko Khoo.

Tomorrow marks the 92nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution. For the first time the working class conquered state power and at least began the task of the socialist transfomation of society. Listen here to this meeting of the ULU Marxist Society where Fred Weston, editor of the website 'In Defence of Marxism' (marxist.com), speaks on the Russian Revolution and the founding of the Comintern.

The economic crisis that has gripped the world has shown us that capitalism as a system is a dead-end. A year into the recession what is the alternative to capitalism? Hear Mick Brooks making the case for socialism at a recent meeting of the ULU Marxist Society in London.

For Marxists the Chinese Revolution was the second greatest event in human history, second only to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Millions of human beings, who had hitherto been the beasts of burden of imperialism, threw off the humiliating yoke of imperialism and capitalism, and entered the stage of world history. The Marxists wholeheartedly supported the revolution, but they also warned that because the working class did not play the leading role, what would emerge would be a bureaucratically deformed workers’ state.

Marxism, or Scientific Socialism, is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In their totality, these ideas claim to provide a theoretical basis for the struggle of the working class to attain a higher form of human society - socialism. What relevance do these ideas, over 150 years old have to today's society? Alan Woods spoke at a recent meeting of the ULU Marxist Society in London on the relevance of Marxism today.