“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 […]
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 […]
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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Josef Stalin died on this day sixty years ago. To mark this anniversary we are […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The effects of the capitalist crisis are being felt at every level of society. As reported in a Time magazine article in April, this also includes the preservation of historical sites. As the cash-strapped European […]
Substituting elaborate conspiracies for the real, living class struggle does not help to clarify the true nature of capitalism or in ideologically arming the working class to end it once and for all.
In the post-World War II period, the Marxists were isolated and without mass forces. Under these difficult conditions, British Marxist Ted Grant understood the need to do long-term, systematic work in the mass organizations of […]
Those who still adhered to Marx’s view that the capitalist system contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction were looked upon as mere cranks—but the wheel of history has turned 180 degrees.
