Marx Engels Institute

Carlous Garrido, founder and editor of Midwestern Marx, joins us again.  

This time we are discussing his new book "The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism". 

Outro music is 'John Browns Body' as performed by Jim Knable

Kit Klarenberg returns to the progreamme to talk about his recent article for Mint Press News which covers the collapse of the US trained and quipped Afghan army. 

We take in the levels of delusion within the government of Ashraf Ghani, the enormous fraud carried out by many "contractors" and the similarities to Ukraine. Along the way we also take in the Balkan wars and how the Bosnians were manipulated and then discarded by US imperialism.

Be sure to follow Kit on twitter 

Outro Music is 'The Banner of the Party' performed in the five languages of Socialist Yugoslavia

Performed by the Choir and Orchestra of Radio Novi Sad in 1977

Composer: Oskar Danon (1948)

This is the first episode of what will be an ongoing series entitled 'Intrduction To Marxist Leninism'.

In this series I will be introudcing the key concepts of the Marxist-Leninist worldview by studying some classic texts from the great revolutionary thinkers of the last 200 years.

In this first episode I look at the 1913 work by Lenin 'The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism'. It is one of the best introductions to Marxism ever written and much can be learned from studying it.

Apologies for the sound quality on this reording as it was done whilst travelling and I had to use both phone and laptop to do so due to the laptop being rather deficient.

Outro Music is 'Glory to You, Great Soviet Union!' 

Performer: All-Union Radio Choir and Orchestra 

Composer: Alexander Kholminov 

Lyricist: Yuri Kamenetsky 

Episode Artwork is 'V.I.Lenin' by the Soviet Estonian Artist Elmar Yanovich Kits

Capitalism requires it's political superstructure to be continually refreshed and reorganised to reflect it's need to find new ways to attack the working class. This is where the need for commodified rebellions comes in.

In this programme I look at why this need arises and how the commodified rebellion has become a key part of bourgeois strategy in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Music for this episode is 'Lenin Gave Us Light' a song from Soviet Moldova 

Episode image is from a 'UK Uncut' protest in 2011 which serves as an effective example of a commodified rebellion

In this weeks internview I speak with CPGB-ML Vice Chair Joti Brar about her recent visit to Caracas. We talk about the unfolding revolutionary process that is going on there, the masses continued support for a socialist future and their building of workers democratic organisations.

We also discuss the recent meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform held in Caracas and the declaration made by those parties attending.  

Outro Music is 'La Hora Del Pueblo' A song of the PSUV

In this interview episode I speak with Angie Jones from the Youtube channel 'Terf Talk Down Under' about the recent protest staged by feminists in Australia against men being granted access to women only spaces, the perils of 'self ID' and much more. We talk about Angies political background within the Australian feminist and left movements, the growth of gender ideology in Australian public institutions and why she and other feminists saw the need to take a stand against it. We also cover the chaos that followed the recent protest in Melbourne, the appearance of a group of Nazis and the lies told by Victorian PM Dan Andrews and opposition leader John Pesutto about Angie herself and protest.

Be sure to follow Angie on twitter @angijones

With the shotgun wedding of UBS and Credit Suisse along with the US governments intervention over Silicon Valley Bank another banking crisis may be upon us. But is this a new crisis or a renewal of an older one that began back in 2008? In this episode I explore why the need for US imperialism is to either find follow Andrew Mellons old advice to "liquidate capital, liquidate labor" to purge the system or to find new places to wage aggressive imperialist wars, or possibly both. I also look at why they have been constrained from taking the extreme actions the system requires thus far.

Outro music is The Hymn of the Paris Commune

In this episode we are joined by International Relations specialist Tara McCormack to talk about Britain, foreign policy and the always interesting topic of the rottenness of the British state.

In a wide ranging coversation we cover the Shamina Begum case, the Manchester bombing of 2017, the Ukraine war, the war on terror and much more! So enjoy an excursion to perfidious Albion with two of it's disgruntled residents.

Be sure to follow Tara on twitter

Episode outro is 'Song of the Leaders' by Roy Bailey

Episode Image is the best visual metaphor for the decline of British imperialism