Obama’s victory and its significance On Tuesday 4 November 2008, Barack Obama, product of a broken interracial marriage and peripatetic childhood poverty, won the world’s most powerful office, the presidency of the United States of America, by promising the change that his compatriots crave.
Economic crisis: no escape under capitalism “Commerce is at a standstill, the markets are glutted, products accumulate, as multitudinous as they are unsaleable, hard cash disappears, credit vanishes, factories are closed, the mass of the workers are in want of the means of subsistence because they have produced too much of the means of subsistence, bankruptcy follows upon bankruptcy, execution upon execution.” (F Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, 1876)
CPGB-ML meets Vietnamese Party delegation Comrade Tran, of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Committee, explained the changes that have been taking place in Vietnam and the challenges still to be overcome.
Thieves fall out: crisis exacerbates inter-imperialist contradictions The world financial crisis is putting ever greater strain upon relations between the major imperialist powers. It seems that the louder they talk about coordinating their efforts to stem the flow of fresh disasters, the more poisoned their relations become.
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha Architect of socialist Albania, anti-revisionist fighter, and one of the great Marxist-Leninist heroes of the 20th century.
Theory The dictatorship of the proletariat What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?
