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.

Doch es hätte nicht so kommen müssen! In seinen Schriften analysiert Leo Trotzki die Gründe für den Aufstieg des Faschismus in Deutschland und Österreich und kritisiert die Politik der Reformisten und Stalinisten: Die Unterstützung des „kleineren Übels“ durch die SPD führte zum Sieg des „größeren Übels“. Gleichzeitig zeigte sich die KPD unfähig, die Masse der sozialdemokratischen Arbeiter zu gewinnen. Trotzki skizziert in diesem Band die Politik, die den Faschismus hätte verhindern können.

Heute steht der Faschismus nicht unmittelbar vor der Tür. Aber die bürgerliche Demokratie befindet sich wieder in einer tiefen Krise. Während historische Parallelen unzureichend sind, um die heutige Situation zu erklären, ist es für Revolutionäre unerlässlich, Trotzkis marxistische Methode zu studieren, um sie auf die heutige, neue Situation anwenden zu können.

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

Further revolutionary convulsions rocked Germany from 1919 to 1923. By this time, a mass Communist Party had been formed, but following advice from Zinoviev and Stalin, a classical revolutionary opportunity in 1923 was missed.

This was a blow, not only in Germany, but internationally. The German defeats served to strengthen the grip of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia. This resulted in zig-zags of policy between opportunism and ultra-leftism, which paved the way for the ‘Third Period’ with the Social Democrats regarded as the main enemy.

With the rise of fascism, Leon Trotsky described Germany in 1931 as “the key to the international situation”. “On the direction in which the solution of the German crisis develops will depend not only the fate of Germany herself (and that is already a great deal), but also the fate of Europe, the destiny of the entire world, for many years to come,” he explained.

Trotsky called for a United Front against fascism, but this was rejected by the Stalinists. This paved the way for the victory of the Nazis, leading to the Holocaust and the Second World War with its 55 million dead.

In this book, Rob Sewell argues that all this was not inevitable, and analyses those events, drawing out the lessons for today.

Basing himself on the most advanced material of the age, Marx was able to explain the mysteries that the classical economists were incapable of resolving. What is value? Where does profit come from? How are workers exploited? Why does the system face periodic crises?

Marx was able to answer these questions by analysing the main contradictions of capitalism. He was able to explain how the system would eventually reach its limits and enter into decline and demise.

Like other sciences, political economy has its own terminology, which can sometimes be difficult to digest. Those prepared to overcome such hurdles, however, will find that Marx’s Capital contains a veritable feast of ideas and a new way of looking at the world.

Written by authors from the Revolutionary Communist International, this book is intended to help guide readers through the pages of volume one of Capital. The aim is to bring out the main themes and ideas contained within Marx’s economic writings.

Understanding Capital allows us to understand the crisis-ridden world around us today – and, most importantly, how we can radically transform it.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways,” Marx famously asserted. “The point, however, is to change it.”

“Let there be no blinking the question. These are not the times to be nice about mere words: the fact is that there is but one mode of obtaining the Charter, and that is by insurrection.” – George Julian Harney

Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, they conducted a class war that at different times involved general strikes, battles with the state, mass demonstrations and even armed insurrection. They forged weapons, illegally drilled their forces, and armed themselves in preparation for seizing the reins of government. Such were the early revolutionary traditions of the British working class, deliberately buried beneath a mountain of falsehoods and distortions.

This book sees Chartism as an essential part of our history from which we must draw the key lessons for today.

Unter anderem in dieser Broschüre enthalten:

• Was ist marxistische Ökonomie? von Rob Sewell
• Lohnarbeit und Kapital von Karl Marx
• Kommt der Wirtschaftseinbruch? von Ted Grant
• Die organische Krise des Kapitalismus von Rob Sewell
• Marx, Keynes, Hayek und die Krise des Kapitalismus von Adam Booth
• Die Krise des Kapitalismus und der tendenzielle Fall der Profitrate von Rob Sewell