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Capitalism, Entertainment, and Creativity

Movies and video games are all-pervasive in our society, with a seemingly endless supply of them being pumped out each year. Despite the decade-long forecast of doom and gloom for the industry, the amount of […]

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Work, Capitalism, and Socialism

“It sounds good on paper, but socialism will never work, because if everybody gets everything they need whether they work or not, then there is no incentive to work at all!” This is one of […]

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Lessons of Chile 1973

We publish here a document written in 1979 by Alan Woods analyzing the history of the Chilean labor movement, the period of the Popular Unity coalition government of Allende, and the brutal Pinochet coup.

Happy First American Revolution Day!

Happy First American Revolution Day! The United States was born out of a revolutionary struggle against British imperialism. For the first time a colonial revolution threw off the rule of the most powerful military force […]

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Ted Grant's "Preparing for Power"

We reproduce here an excerpt from “Preparing for Power,” written in 1942, at the height of World War II, in anticipation of the radicalization and revolutionary wave that followed the war. In the end, capitalism […]

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Marx Was Right—Again!

A spectre is haunting the mainstream media—the spectre of Karl Marx. At one time, all capitalist media entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre.

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Now Available – Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary

Brand new from Wellred! Now available! Order your copy today! Proceeds from this book will help the IMT hire a new full-timer to expand the work of the Ted Grant publications project, currently producing Ted’s collected […]

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The Anniversary of the Death of a Tyrant

Josef Stalin died on this day sixty years ago. To mark this anniversary we are […]

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100 Years Since the Birth of Ted Grant

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ted Grant. Throughout the coming year, Socialist Appeal will feature articles, quotes, books, and booklets by our late comrade. We present here a brief biography of […]

The Dynamic History of U.S. Political Parties and Tendencies

The following interview, conducted in October 2012 by journalist Arash Azizi, was originally published in the Farsi-language journal Mehrnameh, the leading journal of humanities in Iran. In it, John Peterson gives a basic overview of […]

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Marxism and the Media

There is no doubt that the mass media is omnipresent, mediating every aspect of our lives. How one relates to and interprets the world is largely colored by how the media informs us.

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Ted Grant: A Brief Biography

Ted Grant was born Isaac Blank in July 1913 in Germiston, South Africa, near Johannesburg. He died near London, England in July 2006. We present here a brief biography of his life and work.  We […]