Marxist Audio Archive

With the recent budget released by the Trudeau Liberals further increasing the already record deficit, the big question is "who pays?" Sooner or later someone has to pay - and you can be damn sure the bosses will try to make us pay.

This question, as simple as it sounds, has been at the heart of every major revolution. With capitalism in decline, the ruling class can only buy time, kicking the can down the road. But they cannot avoid the inevitable.

In this episode, Alex explores the question posed above and lays out the road to revolution against Canadian capitalism.

Listen to Fightback editor Alex Grant on Cheri DiNovo's "Left, Lefter, Leftist". This month: COVID, strikes, the need for a US labour party, and more!

Also listen on Cheri DiNovo's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/cheri-dinovo

Hamid Alizadeh, editor of In Defense of Marxism (marxist.com), speaks on the ideas of Hegel and the relationship to Marxist philosophy.

In this episode Fred Weston, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses how the Russian Revolution decriminalized homosexuality, and how this was eventually reversed by the Stalinist counter-revolution.

Following the October Revolution of 1917, the Third (Communist) International was setup to be a vehicle of international proletarian revolution. However, the International could not be conjured out of thin air, it had to be built through struggle against many different tendencies and ideas. In this talk, Fightback Editor Rob Lyon discusses the history of the Communist International, and what we can learn from it today. 

Canadian capitalism was founded and built on the brutal exploitation and colonization of Indigenous peoples. A study of this history also clearly shows that the continued oppression and suffering of Indigenous peoples today is inherently linked to the capitalist system, and points the way forward for emancipation through the fight for the socialist transformation of society.

In this episode, Fightback editor Rob Lyon discusses the Indigenous struggle and Marxism.

The October Revolution of 1917 created the most democratic regime in human history. Through the Soviets, power was in the hands of the workers and peasants for the first time in history. These gains however were later lost under Stalin.

So was the Soviet Union actually socialist?

Listen to Fightback editor Alex Grant on Cheri DiNovo's "Left, Lefter, Leftist". This month: should the Greens and the NDP unite into a single party? Should the left should support Biden in the US election? And more!

Also listen on Cheri DiNovo's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/cheri-dinovo

With the global crisis of capitalism and revival of class struggle everywhere, millions of workers and youth are looking for answers. It is therefore not surprising that there is a resurgence of interest in Anarchism along with the ideas of Marxism and socialism. In this talk, fightback organizer and editor Joel Bergman discusses the differences between Marxism and Anarchism, and asks What is the best method to fight against capitalism and for the creation of a new society?

The Doug Ford government in Ontario, Jason Kenney in Alberta, as well as the CAQ government in Quebec, share similarities with the experience of class struggle in Ontario in the 1990s. In 2018 Fightback editor Alex Grant spoke on the lessons of the 1990s for the struggles of today. This is a forgotten history that needs to be reclaimed by the movement against the vitriol of the right wing, and the apologism of the reformists and labour bureaucrats. Part 2 of 2.