School of Communism
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Building the revolutionary party
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our International has made huge advances in the past year. From our tremendously successful ‘Are You A Communist’ campaign, to our bold work in th...
How can the communists conquer the masses?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Communists place a great deal of importance on education and theoretical study, but that doesn’t mean we confine ourselves to small reading groups. ...
World revolution or socialism in one country?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the days of Marx and Engels, communists have understood that the struggle to overthrow capitalism is inherently international. This reflect...
Why we need a theory of history
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We communists have set ourselves the task of changing the course of world history. For that we need a theory of history, how it develops and changes a...
What is imperialism?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As capitalism developed, rich and powerful nations rushed to plunder and carve up the world into markets, colonies, and spheres of influence. In the p...
What is Capitalism? Introduction to Marxist economics
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the last analysis, economics – the means by which men and women produce and reproduce the means of existence – are the driving force of...
What is behind ‘right populism’ and how do we fight it?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing support for reactionary politicians like Trump and Le Pen, and parties like the AfD in Germany, have led to panic from the ‘serious’ bourg...
War and revolution: A Leninist approach
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
War is inevitable under capitalism. In fact, it is the direct consequence of imperialism. The struggle between competing nations for markets, fields o...
The struggle against oppression: working-class unity or identity politics?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Identity politics professes to unite oppressed people against their oppressors. But in reality, it merely distracts from the root cause of society’s...
The Russian Revolution: the greatest event in human history
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The October Revolution of 1917 was the first time in history that workers and peasants had taken on the bosses, landlords and capitalists and not only...
The necessity of a revolutionary philosophy
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many people have a dismissive attitude towards philosophy: no doubt informed by the pretentious rubbish taught in university classrooms. But the fact ...
The Bolsheviks in power
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas ‘the Bloody’ Romanov in 1917, the new revolutionary regime in Russia (led by the Bolshevik Party) began the m...
Lenin & Trotsky: what they really stood for
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lenin and Trotsky are the two outstanding figures of the Russian Revolution. Despite differences of opinion over the course of their lives, after the ...
How the Communist International was built
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian workers and peasants took power with the Bolsheviks at their head, but Lenin understood that socialism ...
How the Bolshevik Party was built
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Bolsheviks did not simply spring into being fully formed. The party was built painstakingly over the course of many years, chiefly by Lenin, to se...
Does communism mean bureaucracy?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The degeneration of the Soviet Union into a dictatorial parody of socialism, at the hands of Stalin’s counterrevolutionary clique of bureaucrats, is...
Did communism really fail?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are often told that the fall of the Soviet Union was incontrovertible evidence of the failure of communism.  This concerted campaign of slande...
Dialectics: the algebra of revolution
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In order to transform the world, we must first understand it. In this speech, the RCI’s leading theoretician, Alan Woods, explains dialectics: a rev...
Launch of the Revolutionary Communist International
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Communism is international, or it is nothing. This was clearly understood by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, who all recognised the necessity to unit...
Welcome To The School Of Communism
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In June, hundreds of revolutionaries from all over the world gathered in Italy for the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist Internationa...