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Activists celebrate ‘buy nothing day,’ protesting agains
Full Marx / 11 August 2024
11 August 2024
Most currently popular arguments for degrowth describe a real problem without recognising its true cause – capitalism’s insatiable need to accumulate, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Full Marx / 29 July 2024
29 July 2024
Most phenomena have an explanation, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY, but occasionally ‘anomalous’ events have led to new scientific understanding
11 - social wage and the NHS
Features / 8 July 2024
8 July 2024
The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Farmer
Full Marx / 27 May 2024
27 May 2024
Marx and Engels’ concern with soil provides a focus for understanding the relationship between capitalism and the environment, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Full Marx / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
Statues and other icons can enforce power and domination but they can also help us challenge that power, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
11 - AI v workers
Full Marx / 22 April 2024
22 April 2024
The increased efficiency of any aspect of capitalism will not automatically lead to its collapse and transformation — avoiding the dangers and realising the potential of AI will involve struggle, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
jubilee debt campaign
Features / 18 March 2024
18 March 2024
Dependency theory reveals the ‘hidden skeleton’ underpinning capitalism today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Corbyn v Starmer
Full Marx / 1 March 2024
1 March 2024
For many Labour Party members, deciding whether to leave or stay will turn on the quality and politics of their local councillors and MP, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Arms trade exhibition
FULL MARX / 18 February 2024
18 February 2024
The arms industry is at the heart of capitalism today; we need to confront both, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
China considers itself a socialist country but has embraced
Full Marx / 28 January 2024
28 January 2024
Social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, distribution and exchange needs to include effective feedback mechanisms to ensure that output and demand are in balance, writes the Marx Memorial Library
Lenin
Full Marx / 15 January 2024
15 January 2024
Ahead of the forthcoming centenary of Lenin’s death, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at his major works and their significance
MASS TRESPASS: Protesters take to Dartmoor to oppose the (si
Full Marx / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
If anything, the demand to reform land ownership was stronger in the past. It is no less pressing today and it needs to go far beyond the ‘right to roam,’ explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Is this land really ‘our land?’
Full Marx / 10 November 2023
10 November 2023
A governing elite of land-owning, industrial, and increasingly finance capitalists owns what we might consider 'our' land — and our skies, seas and rivers are next, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Money Marx
Full Marx / 2 October 2023
2 October 2023
Financial deceit has long been a feature of British capitalism, even if this isn’t always obvious, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
outsourcing
Full Marx / 3 September 2023
3 September 2023
A whole host of damaging measures, from cuts to casualisation, outsourcing and raising the retirement age, are deployed for one reason: to fight the inevitable decline of profits, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
TO THE BARRICADES! Picture of the fights between revolutiona
FULL MARX / 27 August 2023
27 August 2023
Nationalism needs to be analysed in terms of its specific content and context in order to understand its nature, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The 1789 French revolution is often seen as the turning poin
Full Marx / 13 August 2023
13 August 2023
It may seem that Marxism’s promotion of internationalism and class coming before country means it opposes ‘the nation state’ — but the truth is actually one of pragmatic acceptance, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Features / 16 July 2023
16 July 2023
In their 100th Full Marx column, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY looks at how socialists have grappled with the direction and framing of working-class self-education over the last 200 years
A blackbird’s alarm call can be seen as an example of altr
Full Marx / 25 June 2023
25 June 2023
Humans are uniquely concerned with a ‘reason to live,’ so traditionally turned to religion. The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates whether science, and the science of Marxism, have offered new answers
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Full Marx / 4 June 2023
4 June 2023
Ultra-leftism is not a single set of ideas but a syndrome that always places political action or demands way ahead of what is achievable – often intentionally, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
PERFECTLY ILLUSTRATED: Unionised GMB workers rally outside t
Full Marx / 21 May 2023
21 May 2023
The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out
NO FANTASY: Co-operatives can be part of the normal running
Full Marx / 23 April 2023
23 April 2023
You remove the boss and the owners, leaving workers equal in management and production: job done? Not quite, but co-ops should not be casually dismissed either, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Is capitalism cyclical?
Features / 19 February 2023
19 February 2023
As long as we permit capitalism to exist, there will be cycles of development and decay, of gains and losses for capitalists, and of successes and failures for the working class, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Mannequin
Full Marx / 5 February 2023
5 February 2023
Human nature is not fixed; it has changed throughout history and will continue to do so, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY