As the creator of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was a man who changed the world and translated the ideas of Marxism into reality.
Today, one hundred years after his death, the bourgeois historians continue to vilify and slander Lenin’s life and ideas. This book sets out to definitively answer these distortions, putting forward a defence of the real Lenin and the ideas he stood for. Given the ongoing capitalist crisis, his ideas are gaining an increasingly wide echo. In so many ways, Lenin is more relevant today than ever before.

Over two volumes, this book traces Lenin’s life and work, drawing on the colossal heritage left behind in his own writings. This book also features an appendix of Krupskaya’s writings on Lenin, a chronology, and over 250 images.

Volume Two spans from Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917 to his death in 1924. In this period, the working class conquered power in October 1917 and struggled to survive in a country racked by civil war and imperialist intervention. It ends with Lenin’s last fight against the emerging Soviet bureaucracy.

As the creator of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was a man who changed the world and translated the ideas of Marxism into reality.
Today, one hundred years after his death, the bourgeois historians continue to vilify and slander Lenin’s life and ideas. This book sets out to definitively answer these distortions, putting forward a defence of the real Lenin and the ideas he stood for. Given the ongoing capitalist crisis, his ideas are gaining an increasingly wide echo. In so many ways, Lenin is more relevant today than ever before.

Over two volumes, this book traces Lenin’s life and work, drawing on the colossal heritage left behind in his own writings. This book also features an appendix of Krupskaya’s writings on Lenin, a chronology, and over 250 images.

Volume One covers the years from Lenin’s youth to the February Revolution in 1917. These are the years in which Bolshevism took shape, from its theoretical beginnings among the first Russian Marxists to the Bolshevik Party’s experiences in the 1905 Revolution and the First World War.

Diese Broschüre enthält:
Der Kampf der Schüler in Spanien 1986/87 und die Rolle der Marxisten von Alan Woods
Artikel über die Schul- und Unistreiks 1987, 1996, 1998, 2009 und 2013 in Österreich
Artikel über das Bildungssystem im Kapitalismus

Der Fortgang der Philosophiegeschichte ist untrennbar mit der Entwicklung der Gesellschaft überhaupt verbunden. Derselbe geschichtliche Prozess schaffte auch die materiellen Grundlagen für die Überwindung der Klassen und der Errichtung einer neuen, sozialistischen Gesellschaft, in der kein Mensch mehr von einem anderen ausgebeutet wird.

Damit verwandelt sich die Philosophie von einer bloßen Betrachtungsweise in eine unersetzliche Waffe für den Kampf um eine revolutionäre Veränderung der Gesellschaft.

Das Buch möchte das Verständnis all jener heben, die die Welt verändern und die Ketten, die uns fesseln, sprengen wollen.

Mit Leitfragen, Leseempfehlungen und weiteren Texten von Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, W. I. Lenin und Leo Trotzki.

“The Bolivarian Revolution, if it is not to be reduced to an empty phrase, must mean the socialist revolution in Venezuela. And the working people of Venezuela must inscribe on their banner the aim of the Socialist United States of Latin America. That is the only perspective that can guarantee the final victory.”

The Bolivarian Revolution transformed Venezuela. The corrupt landowners had lands confiscated. Empty factories were expropriated. A mass programme of housing, education and healthcare was underway.

For the first time in their history, the Venezuelan working masses had a say in their lives. The revolution lit both a fire in their hearts and a beacon to the masses of Latin America. It was for this crime that Hugo Chávez attracted the ire of the “devil” in the White House.

Writing as these events unfolded, Alan Woods explains how the outright sabotage of the oligarchy, the pressure of liberal and reformist elements in the PSUV, and the crushing domination of US imperialism put a brake on the movement.

The Bolivarian Revolution remained incomplete. Had the movement been taken to its logical conclusion, with the abolition of capitalism and the expropriation of the oligarchy, the last quarter-century in Latin America would look profoundly different. Instead, the gains of the revolution have been undone, and US imperialism is once again licking its lips in anticipation of the oil and riches that lie beneath the continent.

This book serves not only as an analysis of the Venezuelan Revolution, but as an illustration of the internationalist duty of Marxists to explain and point to the way forward through events. Even more pertinently, lessons should be learnt from the limitations of the Bolivarian Revolution in order to arm a new generation of class fighters.

Under the most difficult and dangerous conditions, Spanish workers launched a strike wave, which, in its intensity and duration, has no parallel anywhere. There was nothing remotely like this in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy or Salazar’s Portugal. This was a genuine revolution, which could and should have gone far further than it did. If it did not finally succeed, that was no fault of the working class. The Spanish revolution of the 1970s was shamefully betrayed by the leaders of the communist and socialist parties, who entered into an agreement with former fascists in order halt the movement in its tracks.

Alan Woods participated personally in the last phase of this struggle and was a witness to some of its most decisive moments. Using a wealth of documentary material from the time and also new interviews with key participants in the events, he tears away the thick veil of lies, myths and half-truths to reveal what actually occurred.

With new struggles and challenges on the order of the day in Spain and the rest of the world, it is the duty of all conscious workers and revolutionary youth to study the lessons of the past as a necessary precondition for victory in the future. This book is an important contribution to a necessary learning process and is obligatory reading for anyone who is interested in the struggle for socialism today.

From his earliest youth in South Africa Ted Grant dedicated his life to the struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Moving to Britain in 1934 to seek new horizons, within a decade he had become the leading theoretician of the Trotskyist movement.

The book deals with the launch of the Fourth International and Ted’s battle to defend the ideas of Trotsky, which brought him into conflict with the leaders of the International after the Second World War. It explains the important theoretical questions and debates of this period and it outlines Ted Grant’s important theoretical contribution to Marxism.

Ted was the founder and theoretical inspirer of the Militant Tendency, which Michael Crick once described as the fifth political party in Britain. The book traces the rise and fall of Militant. It provides a fascinating insight into a subject that remains a closed book to most political analysts even now. This is a truly amazing story of a truly amazing man, told with style, colour and wit. At the end you will feel that you have known Ted Grant all your life.

Alan Woods’ new book sharply criticizes the ideas of reformist writers like Dieterich, who assert that socialism can be built simply by carrying out reforms within the confines of the capitalist system while maintaining the structures of the bourgeois state apparatus.

Reformism or Revolution explains that it is impossible to reform capitalism, that it is necessary to build the revolutionary party, mobilize the working class, dismantle the bourgeois state apparatus and nationalize the key levers of the economy.

The book also explains and defends the views of Marxists on: Philosophy and Science, Historical Materialism, the English and French Revolutions, Marxist Economics, the Economics of Socialism of the 21st Century, the question of Socialism vs. Stalinism, the State and Revolution, the Permanent Revolution, the Future of the Cuban Revolution, the Venezuelan Revolution and more.

On the bicentennial of his birth, Karl Marx’s ideas are more relevant than ever. While he is perhaps best known for his writings on economics and history, anyone who wishes to have a fully rounded understanding of his method must strive to master dialectical materialism, which itself resulted from an assiduous study and critique of Hegel.

Dialectical materialism is the logic of motion, development, and change. By embracing contradiction instead of trying to write it out of reality, dialectics allows Marxists to approach processes as they really are, not as we would like them to be. In this way we can understand and explain the essential class interests at stake in our fight against capitalist exploitation and oppression.

At every decisive turning point in history, scientific socialists must go back to basics. Marxist theory represents the synthesized experience, historical memory, and guide to action of the working class. The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism aims to arm the new generation of revolutionary socialists with these essential ideas.

The book contains:

• Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx
• Marx’s Revolution in Philosophy by Alan Woods
• Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin
• Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy by Friedrich Engels
• The Fundamental Problems of Marxism [Extract] by Georgi Plekhanov
• Anti-Dühring [Extract] by Friedrich Engels
• Dialectics of Nature [Extract] by Friedrich Engels
• Critique of Hegel’s Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole by Karl Marx
• Philosophical Notebooks [Extract] by V.I. Lenin
• Philosophical Notebooks [Extract] by Leon Trotsky
• England and Materialist Philosophy by Karl Marx
• The German Ideology [Extract] by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Materialism and Empirio-criticism [Extract] by V.I. Lenin
• Reform or Revolution [Extract] by Rosa Luxemburg
• History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk [Extract] by Leon Trotsky
• In Defence of Marxism [Extract] by Leon Trotsky
• The Class, the Party and the Leadership by Leon Trotsky
• Dialectical Materialism and Science by Leon Trotsky
• Radio, Science, Technique and Society by Leon Trotsky