Marxism, Lenin, Trotsky, Transitional Programme, revolution, socialism, left politics, environment, anti-racism, Che Guevara, communism, anarchism, libertarianism, Alexandra Kollontai, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Fourth International, Paris Commune, Chartists, Russian Revolution, James Cannon, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party.
Music
The Coup, The Clash, Dead Prez, Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, KRS1, Bob Marley, Gil Scott-Heron, Woody Guthrie, UB40, Asian Dub Foundation, Green Day, Chumbawumba, Paul Robeson.
Movies
Battleship Potemkin, Land and Freedom, Strike, Battle of Algiers, La Regle du Jour, Metropolis, Counterplan, City of God, Rocinante, Sea Coal, The War Game, Burning An Illusion, Fahrenheit 9/11.
Television
Books
What Is To Be Done?, Capital, Trotskyist Manifesto, Communist Manifesto, State and Revolution, Transitional Programme, The Permanent Revolution.
We are active revolutionaries committed to methods of struggle which empower workers. Our aim is a socialist society where production is geared to the needs of all, not the profits of a few. Such a society, unlike the old Soviet Union, must be under the direct democratic control of workers. We believe such a society will not come about without co-ordinated calls for action - a programme. We believe we need an international party to develop that programme and win the majority of workers to it. That party must be a model of the direct democracy we preach. As far as possible, we practise collective decision-making and adhere to Lenin's view of democratic centralism: complete freedom to criticise, but unity in action.
Capitalism is responsible for dividing us and oppressing minority groups. We utterly oppose discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, age or disability.
Just as capitalism exploits workers, so it plunders and pollutes the environment uncontrollably. We believe the very survival of the earth now depends on its overthrow.
We want to see the left rebuilt. We are therefore opposed to the sectarianism, opportunism, dogmatism, reformism and cynical contempt for democracy which prevails on the socialist left. We aim to help build a revolutionary international that workers can trust.
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Bare faced no nonsense thievery Going on under you nose A trillion dollars just to bail out the rich It’s gonna dig you deeper into your hole
The pretence of concern on their faces Turns to smiles behind the closed door They’ve just taken away your future Ad you won’t see that anymore
You just paid to decimate the poor You just sanctioned their next phase of war It was the only excuse they needed Your last piece of self respect conceded
Hey there buddy can you spare me a dime Can you offer some compassion to me? This dust bowl is choking my thought I used to think this was the land of the free How the hell did it come to this? Being slaves to money power and greed How did corporate killers and thieves Become the single self dominant creed
You just paid to decimate the poor You just sanctioned their next phase of war It was the only excuse they needed Your last chance to get off your knees conceded
So keep your love ones close And you debts to a minimum And God help the old folk Cos they’re rewriting the rule book Making new contingencies Of acceptable losses From future power obscenities
credit crunch fuel and food wars - it's time to get real people
When the lights go out What you gonna do when the lights go out no one to listen to you scream and shout It’s coming/It’s here How you gonna feel when the lines go dead and your Third World life stretches out ahead
There’s only so much bio fuel to burn and maybe we’ve already used it There’s only so much Planet Earth can take and we’ve well and truly abused it There was always plenty of wealth to go round but never in the hands of the greedy few who possess it Only enough stuff left for 2 billion 6 billion plus gonna be around to contest it
Bullshit words and empty deeds feed the doubt and plant the seed New demand gives way to new war targeting resources where our enemies are Feed you till you’re fit to burst make you hunger make you thirst Expectation is the key keeps you thinking that you live free Faced with recession faced with loss it’s easier to ignore the cost More tacit consent more Third World horror keeps you feeling safe tomorrow But soon enough when the wind turns cold you’ll have to face the lie you’ve been told You’ll fuck your neighbours and fuck your friends and this is where your humanity ends
Let us all help to speed the day when this wonderful earth and its rich resources are held im common for the benefit of all humanity.Fraternally yours for a Classless Stateless Moneyless Socialist/Communist society.
"In my inner life, not only during my school years but throughout my youth, nature and individuals occupied a lesser place than books and ideas. Despite my country bringing-up, I was not sensitive to nature. My interest in it and my understanding of it came in later years, when childhood and even early youth were far behind. For a long time people passed through my mind like random shadows. I looked into myself and into books, in which in turn I tried again to find myself and my future. "
From Leon Trotsky, My Life
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