How class struggle changes the world: sections A7 to B5

A7. Why capitalism produces crises and unemployment.

"A gallop of industry, commercial credit and speculation finally, after breakneck leaps, ends where it began - in the ditch of a crisis... The overwork of some becomes the condition for the idleness of others."

Socialism Utopian and Scientific section III [1].

Where does capitalism come from? What other social and economic forms have there been in history? Why is capitalism only a transitory stage of development?

Communist Manifesto [2] sections I and III.


B2. Stalinism is not a form of socialism, but the opposite of socialism.

Working-class socialism versus "state socialism".

The Lies Against Socialism Answered [3], from We Stand For Workers' Liberty [4]

"What Marx and Lenin meant by socialism" by Karl Kautsky. [5]


B3. Why must we build a revolutionary party?

What is special about the revolutionary party, as compared to other political parties?

Why must we build a revolutionary party? [6] from We Stand For Workers' Liberty [7]


B4. Why trade-union work is central for us.

Why does the working class organise in trade unions? Why is trade-union work central for revolutionaries, even when the trade unions are conservative? What do we do in the trade unions?

Three excerpts from Marx on trade unions [8]

Reading from AWL dayschool on trade unions and socialism [9]


B5. Transforming the labour movement, independent working-class political representation, and the Labour Party

Reading from AWL dayschool on Marxists and the Labour Party [10]