Alan Woods speaking on the prospects for the world revolution at the recent World School of the IMT.

Jorge Martín, international secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign, is speaking on the Canadian Latin Waves radio programme about the Venezuela, Libya, the revolution in the Middle East and the movement in Wisconsin.

In the midst of the biggest strike wave in France since the mid-1990s, Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, addressed meetings of workers and youth in six French cities. This video (in English with French translation) was recorded at a packed meeting in Paris at the very end of the tour on the evening of the 16h - a day when millions of people were on the streets in France.

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.

Hear this recording from a public meeting held by Edinburgh supporters of Socialist Appeal on the ongoing economic crisis effecting millions of workers and poor people across the globe. Speaking were Fred Weston, editorial board of the website In Defence of Marxism, and Bayo Ogunrotifa of the Nigerian Marxists Campaign for a Workers Alternative.

This year marks the 90^th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International. Mick Brooks spoke at a recent Socialist Appeal Day School on the rise of the "world party of socialist revolution" under Lenin and Trotsky and its subsequent political and bureaucratic degeneration under Stalin.