![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The situation in the Middle East - Fred Weston Fred Weston gives an overview of the situation in the middle east and the position of the International Marxist Tendency throughout the region. Keywords: Marxism; Class Struggle; Socialism; Israel; Palestine; Iraq; Iran; Lebanon; Syria; Communism Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - The Middle East part 2 - Fred Weston On the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq, the position of US imperialism in the Middle East is becoming untenable. The incursion of Turkish troops into Kurdish Iraq and the stravation blockade of Palestine makes an already difficult situation even worse. US imperialism and their supporters in Europe are facing a potentially devastating defeat. At the same time, the working class, denied access to the oil wealth, are starting to move... Keywords: Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan; War; Oil; Libya; Israel; Palestine; Egypt; Syria; Lebanon; socialism; marxism; communism Downloads: 3 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - The Middle East - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks to the ULU Marxist Society on the situation in the Middle East. Keywords: Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan; War; Oil; Libya; Israel; Palestine; Egypt; Syria; Lebanon; socialism; marxism; communism Downloads: 16 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The situation in the Middle East - Fred weston Fred Weson talks on the current situation in the middle east and the position of the International Marxist Tendency to the current conflagrations. Keywords: Socialism; Marxism; Middle East; Israle; Palestine; Iraq Downloads: 18 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW The Middle East - Fred Weston On the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq, the position of US imperialism in the Middle East is becoming untenable. The incursion of Turkish troops into Kurdish Iraq and the stravation blockade of Palestine makes an already difficult situation even worse. US imperialism and their supporters in Europe are facing a potentially devastating defeat. At the same time, the working class, denied access to the oil wealth, are starting to move... Keywords: Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan; War; Oil; Libya; Israel; Palestine; Egypt; Syria; Lebanon; socialism; marxism; communism Downloads: 139 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | June London Aggregate - The situation in Brazil - Fred Weston Fred weston provides an update on the current situation in Brazil, including the state of the occupied factories movement, to the Socialist Appeal London aggregate in June. Keywords: Brazil; Lulu; PT; Venzuela; occupied factories; freteco; CIPLA Downloads: 26 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | What's all the fuss about Venezuela? - Fred Weston Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution in Cardiff held a meeting at the University of Cardiff on Wednesday evening. This meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken place in Venezuela over the last 10 years, to debunk the myths about Chavez and the revolutionary process he is leading, and to spread the message that is coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the 21st century - socialism. Keywords: Venezuela; Cardiff University; socialism; Chavez; RCTV; capitalism; marxist Downloads: 34 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Audio File: 1968 - Year of Revolution part Italy part 2 - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks to the Socialist Appeal Day School on the events of the Hot Autumn in Italy in 1969, and the historical context that precipitated the event. Keywords: Marxism; Socialism; Marx; Engels; Lenin; Trotsky; Socialist Appeal; IMT; Italy; Hot; Autumn Downloads: 151 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Audio File and Report: Socialist Appeal Day School - 1968: Year of Revolution - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks to the Socialist Appeal Day School on the events of the Hot Autumn in Italy in 1969, and the historical context that precipitated the event. Keywords: Marxism; Socialist Appeal; IMT; Marx; Engels; Lenin; Trotsky; Socialism; Communism; Revolution; Italy; Hot; Autumn Downloads: 28 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Fred Weston On the situation in Brazil p2 - Fred weston Part 2 of Fred Weston apeaking to the London aggregate of the Socialist Appeal on the situation in Brazil. Keywords: Brazil; Cipla; Workers Control; Socialism; Marxism; Democracy Downloads: 109 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | What's all the fuss about Venezuela - summing up - Fred Weston Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution held a meeting at Cardiff University on Wednesday evening. This meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken place in Venezuela over the last 10 years and to spread the message that is coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the 21st century - socialism. Keywords: Venezuela; Chavez; socialism; revolution; Hands off Venezuela; Latin America Downloads: 96 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Cuba 50 years later - where is the revolution going? - Fred Weston Fred Weston speaks at a recent day school of Socialist Appeal how the Cuban revolution, starting out as a bourgeois democratic revolution, was forced to move against capitalism in order to achieve its aims, a brilliant confirmation of Trotsky's theory of the Permanent Revolution. He also looks at how Cuba resisted the pressures to follow the capitalist road as happened in the Soviet Union and China, undergoing a serious crisis in the process... Keywords: Cuba; revolution; Fidel Castro; Che Guevara; Batista; bourgeois; democratic; socialist; capitalism; Trotsky; theory; Permanent Revolution; Soviet Union; China; crisis; Chinese model; socialism; marxism; marxist; communism; communist; international marxist tendency Downloads: 223 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Audio File: 1968 - Year of Revolution part 1(1) - Fred Weston Forty years ago the world was experiencing upheaval on a world scale that hadn't been seen for a generation. In the US opposition to the war in Vietnam gathered momentum, as it did in Britain. In Pakistan revolution was on the order of the day, and in Czechoslovakia we saw the Prague spring and Soviet Invasion. In May there was the glorious rising of the French working class, that saw 10 million workers down tools in a general strike... Keywords: Marx; Engels; Lenin; Trotsky; Marxism; Socialism; Revolution; Italy; Hot Autumn Downloads: 53 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Fred Weston on the situation in Brazil p1 - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks to the London Aggregate of the Socialist Appeal on the current political situation in Brazil, and in particular the Occupied Factories movement. Keywords: Brazil; Cipla; Occupied Factories; Workers control; Socialism; Marxism; Democracy Downloads: 231 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - Marxism and the Black Struggle p1 - Fred Weston What is the most effective way of combating racism? Fred Weston, of the marxist.com editorial board, speaks at the Marxist Day School held recently in London on the effects of positive discrimination and the lessons for the labour movement, touching on South Africa and the struggle against apartheid and Brazil where today the Black Socialist movement is opposing racial legislation. Keywords: marxism; black; struggle; civil; rights; socialism; working; class; south; africa; nationalism; positive; discrimination Downloads: 267 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - The Middle East - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks to the ULU Marxist society on the situation in the Middle East Keywords: Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan; War; Oil; Libya; Israel; Palestine; Egypt; Syria; Lebanon; socialism; marxism; communism Downloads: 302 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Marxism and the Black Struggle - Fred Weston What is the most effective way of combating racism? Fred Weston, of the marxist.com editorial board, spoke at the Marxist Day School held recently in London on the effects of positive discrimination and the lessons for the labour movement, touching on the origins of racism, the Black question in the USA, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid and Brazil where today the Black Socialist movement is opposing racial legislation. Keywords: marxism; black; struggle; civil; rights; socialism; working; class; south; africa; nationalism; positive; discrimination Downloads: 173 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Fred Weston on Philosophy of Marxism - Fred Weston Fred Weston addressing the ULU Marxist Society on the philosophy of Marxism on 16 October 2008. Keywords: marxism; philosophy; in defence of marxism; fred weston Downloads: 215 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Permanent Revolution - Fred Weston FW on the Permanent Revolution Keywords: socialism; russia; marx; trotsky; stalin Downloads: 473 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Permanent Revolution - part 2 - Fred Weston FW on the Permanent Revolution - part 2 Keywords: socialism; stalinism; revolution; marxism; menshevism Downloads: 273 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The situation in the Middle East p2 - Fred Weston Fred Weston talks on the current situation in the middle east and the international marxist tendencys position throughout the region. part 2 of 2. Keywords: marxism; socialism; israel; middle east; palestine; lebanon; syria; iraq; iran; class struggle Downloads: 95 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | What's all the fuss about Venezuela? Summing up - Fred Weston Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution held a meeting at Cardiff University on Wednesday evening. This meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken place in Venezuela over the last 10 years and to spread the message that is coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the 21st century - socialism. Keywords: Venezuela; Hands off Venezuela; Latin America; Chavez; Bolivarian; Socialism; revolution Downloads: 51 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? p1 - Fred Weston With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading 'Christianity - Capitalist or Communist?' debated Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister. He holds degrees in English Literature and Theology from Cambridge and Bristol and a Doctorate from Birmingham... Keywords: Christianity; Communist; Capitalist; Marxist; Fred; Weston; Dr; Peter; Hatton; Socialism; Kautsky Downloads: 538 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? p2 - Fred Weston With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading 'Christianity - Capitalist or Communist?' debated Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister. He holds degrees in English Literature and Theology from Cambridge and Bristol and a Doctorate from Birmingham... Keywords: Christianity; Communist; Capitalist; Marxist; Fred; Weston; Dr; Peter; Hatton; Socialism; Kautsky Downloads: 349 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? p3 - Fred Weston With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading 'Christianity - Capitalist or Communist?' debated Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister and Fred Weston, editor of www.marxist.com and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency. Keywords: Christianity; Communist; Capitalist; Marxist; Fred; Weston; Dr; Peter; Hatton; Socialism; Kautsky Downloads: 238 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - Christianity - Capitalist or Communist? p4 - Fred Weston With Christmas just around the corner we present the final meeting of the ULU Marxist Society, which celebrated the end of a successful first term of meetings by hosting a debate on Marxism and Religion. Under the heading 'Christianity - Capitalist or Communist?' debated Dr Peter Hatton, Methodist Minister and Fred Weston, editor of www.marxist.com and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency. Keywords: Christianity; Communist; Capitalist; Marxist; Fred; Weston; Dr; Peter; Hatton; Socialism; Kautsky Downloads: 233 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Iranian Revolution and the question of the State - Fred Weston Hear Fred Weston speaking to a recent meeting of Socialist Appeal in Edinburgh on the current Iranian Revolution. He also connects the movement against the Iranian regime with an analysis on the question of the state in a capitalist society. Keywords: Iran; Tehran; presidential election; anti-government; demonstration; protest; movement; rally; workers; masses; women; youth; Iranian elections; Iranian; revolution; Ahmadinejad; Islamic regime; Islamic republic; Mousavi; Supreme Leader; Khamenei; Rafsanjani; Khatami; Rezaei; clashes; Neda; police; Basij; Azadi Square; 1979; Shah; Tabriz; Shiraz; Isfahan; Sanandaj; Rasht; Arak; Sari; Ahvaz; Qom; clerics; Revolutionary Guard; Guardian Council; colour revolution; anti-imperialist; Khodro; car workers; Vahed; strike; general strike; kurdistan; student movement; 1999; labour; trade union; repression; state; capitalism; class; class society; class struggle Downloads: 186 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - The Russian Revolution and the Communist International - Fred Weston The Russian Revolution was the greatest event in human history. For the first time the working class conquered state power and at least began the task of the socialist transfomation of society. The Russian revolution acted as a beacon to the workers of the world, resulting in a wave of revolutionary uprisings internationally that lasted well into the 1920s and created the mass communist parties that came together in March 1919 to form the Communist (3rd) International... Keywords: Russian; Revolution; Communist; International; 1917; 1919; Marx; Engels; Lenin; Trotsky; Fred; Weston; IMT |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | FW - The Russian Revolution and the Communist International p2 - Fred Weston The Russian Revolution was the greatest event in human history. For the first time the working class conquered state power and at least began the task of the socialist transfomation of society. The Russian revolution acted as a beacon to the workers of the world, resulting in a wave of revolutionary uprisings internationally that lasted well into the 1920s and created the mass communist parties that came together in March 1919 to form the Communist (3rd) International... Keywords: Russian; Revolution; Communist; International; 1917; 1919; Marx; Engels; Lenin; Trotsky; Socialism; Communism; Fred; Weston; IMT |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Global Crisis! Global Fightback! - Fred Weston and Bayo Ogunrotifa On Saturday the 4th of July supporters of Socialist Appeal in Edinburgh and from a round the country met up at the Forest Cafe. The agenda for the talks was the economic crisis. The Speakers at this meeting were Fred Weston, the editor of the popular Marxist website In Defence Of Marxism and Bayo Ogunrotifa, a Nigerian Marxist from the group Campaign for a Workers Alternative, currently studying in Britain... Keywords: economic crisis; stock exchange; production; working class; fighting; fight; attacks; capitalist; class; capitalism; workers; Africa; socialism; socialist; marxism; marxist; communism; communist; Socialist Appeal; International Marxist Tendency; struggle Downloads: 168 |