On our TV screens, in the newspapers, at school, in our workplaces and colleges we are bombarded with the ideas of the capitalist system. We are told equality isn’t possible, the working class don’t exist anymore, socialism is a thing of the past, and loads of other crap…

Read on and arm yourself with the knowledge to resist the lies.

 

The system that keeps us down

• The system we live in: Capitalism
• The birthpains of Capitalism
• We live in a class society
• What does exploitation mean?
• Ideas, culture and media under capitalism

What’s the alternative?

• What is Socialism?
• Is communism dead?
• Marxism or Anarchism
• What went wrong in Russia?

Marxist thinkers

• Lenin’s theory of imperialism
• Lenin: From a few marxists to a Mass Party
• Lenin: From war to revolution
• Karl Marx: Still relevant?
• Trotsky: From rebel to revolution
• Trotsky: The fight Against Stalinism
• Rosa Luxembourg: a revolutionary Life

The State

• The state: what is it and what’s it’s role?
• The Police: Only doing their job?
• Do we live in a democratic society?
• Lessons of Chile: reform or revolution?

Capitalism and War

• Is war inherant to capitalism?
• Capitalism creates war

Oppression and Resistance

• Women’s oppression and liberation
• Fight for sexual freedom
• Racism: not just a bad idea
• Racism: part of the capitalist system

The fight against fascism

• Where does fascism come from?
• How to fight fascism
• No Platform: what is is and why it works

Capitalism puts the planet under threat

• Cars: can’t live with them, can live without them?
• Drugs: The case for legalisation
• GM Foods: How to feed the world, or how to destroy it?
• Can capitalism stop climate change?