In Defence of Marxism http://www.marxist.com/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:51:47 +0000 MYOB en-gb Haiti: Prime Minister Henry resigns as regime collapses http://www.marxist.com/haiti-prime-minister-henry-resigns-as-regime-collapses.htm http://www.marxist.com/haiti-prime-minister-henry-resigns-as-regime-collapses.htm

A gang-led coup in Haiti has led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. US imperialism is scrambling to regain control of the situation and has organised negotiations to create a transitional council to take power. But with the Haitian state in utter disarray, the gangs are moving to solidify their control of the capital Port-au-Prince.

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Featured Haiti Americas ROOT Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:45:16 +0000
737 Max 9 blowout: Boeing gambles with human lives for profit http://www.marxist.com/737-max-9-blowout-boeing-gambles-with-human-lives-for-profit.htm http://www.marxist.com/737-max-9-blowout-boeing-gambles-with-human-lives-for-profit.htm

On January 6, 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were grounded after a door plug blew from one of the planes’ fuselages over Oregon during an Alaska Airlines flight. No passengers were seriously injured this time, but in at least three prior incidents, problems on Boeing planes ended in fatal disaster. Why? The Boeing bosses play dice with the lives of aircrews and passengers, all for the sake of profit. The reckless aviation giant’s history of missing or faulty parts, suppression of safety protocols, and utter negligence is only one symptom of a much larger decay in capitalist production.

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Featured Science & Technology World ROOT Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:04:29 +0000
How can we be free? A Marxist critique of "The Dawn of Everything" http://www.marxist.com/how-can-we-be-free-a-marxist-critique-of-the-dawn-of-everything.htm http://www.marxist.com/how-can-we-be-free-a-marxist-critique-of-the-dawn-of-everything.htm

The Dawn of Everything, by the anarchist anthropologist, David Graeber, and archaeologist, David Wengrow, has been widely promoted as a radical new vision of human history both in the mainstream press and on the left. In this article Joel Bergman subjects this work to a rigorous Marxist critique, and exposes the fatal flaws inherent in the authors’ idealist view of historical development.

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Featured History & Theory ROOT Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:11:51 +0000
What is to be Done? How Lenin built a battle organisation http://www.marxist.com/what-is-to-be-done-how-lenin-built-a-battle-organisation.htm http://www.marxist.com/what-is-to-be-done-how-lenin-built-a-battle-organisation.htm

In 1901, Lenin published his much awaited book, What is to be Done? This masterpiece of Marxist literature is an unparalleled handbook for anyone wanting to build a Bolshevik party, for anyone serious about the struggle to overthrow capitalism today. In this article, we explain what gives this book its enduring power, and why every communist should conquer this text today.

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Featured History & Theory ROOT Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:47:00 +0000
New report exposes 12 CIA bases in Ukraine: so much for national sovereignty! http://www.marxist.com/new-report-exposes-12-cia-bases-in-ukraine-so-much-for-national-sovereignty.htm http://www.marxist.com/new-report-exposes-12-cia-bases-in-ukraine-so-much-for-national-sovereignty.htm

A recent New York Times article, “based on more than 200 interviews, current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe” has laid bare some aspects of US imperialism’s intervention in Ukraine. It details a collaboration between the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence services stretching back to the aftermath of the 2013-4 Euromaidan movement, and continuing up to the present war, including the construction of 12 “forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border.”

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Featured Ukraine Europe ROOT Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:18:44 +0000