Education
The materials in this guide will give you a broad understanding of Marxist politics, philosophy and economics. They will also help you to start learning how to apply Marxist science to the problems workers face in Britain toady. They cannot be exhaustive, and should not be considered the end, but only the beginning of your education.
Foundation course: our beliefs and values outlined
Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement. (VI Lenin, What Is To Be Done? 1901)
Video: Theory and practice (an introduction by Harpal Brar, chairman of the CPGB-ML)
Red Youth statement of aims: We Want Freedom
Each one, teach one: build the red bases! (Red Youth)
Video: Join the struggle! (speech by R Brar)
Video: Revolution in Britain (speech by H Brar)
Video: Serve the people – join the CPGB-ML (speech by P Mercia)
1. A Marxist political understanding outlined
The three sources and three component parts of Marxism by VI Lenin, 1913
Video: The Communist Manifesto (presentation by R Brar)
The principles of communism by F Engels, 1847
K Marx and F Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
Video: Class society and the state (presentation by J Brar)
Video: The state and revolution (presentation by H Brar)
JV Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism, 1924
VI Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917
F Engels, Anti-Dühring [Part 3], 1977
F Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884
2. Marxist philosophy
Video: Dialectical materialism (presentation by R Brar)
Video: Darwin, Marx and materialism (presentation by G Cremer)
JV Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1938
On contradiction by Mao Zedong, 1937
On practice by Mao Zedong, 1937
The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man by F Engels, 1876
G Plekhanov, On the Role of the Individual in History, 1898
F Engels, Anti-Dühring [Part 1], 1877
F Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, 1886
G Plekhanov, The Development of the Monist View of History, 1895
VI Lenin, Materialism and Emperio-criticism, 1908
Religion is the opium of the masses
Lenin on Religion (selected articles)
K Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1843
3. Marxist economics
Video: Economics 101 – capitalism (presentation by E Rule)
Value, Price and Profit (K Marx), 1865
A Leontiev, Political Economy – a Beginner’s Course, 1936
F Engels, Synopsis of Capital, 1867
K Marx, Wage Labour and Capital, 1847
F Engels, Anti-Dühring [Part 2], 1877
K Marx, Capital, Volume 1, 1867
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
Video: Imperialism and war (presentation by H Brar)
Video: Udham Singh and Bhagat Singh (poem by G Cremer)
Video: Fight for Queen and country? (speech by H Brar to the Durham Union)
Video: Flowers and famine (speech by M Hassan)
Video: Water in Gaza (speech by M Zaytoun)
VI Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916
H Brar, Imperialism – Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism, 1998
H Brar, Imperialism and War, 2008
The capitalist economic crisis of overproduction
Monopoly capitalism staring into the abyss, Lalkar, March 2016
Which way forward in the economic crisis? CPGB-ML statement, March 2009
Economic crisis: no escape under capitalism, Proletarian, December 2008
Video: food crisis (presentation by E Rule)
Video: Capitalism can’t save the planet (speech by H Brar to the Oxford Union)
Video: Capitalism has failed (speech by H Brar to the Durham Union)
Video: Capitalist crisis (presentation by H Brar)
H Brar and E Rule, Imperialism and the Worst-Ever Crisis of Overproduction, 2013
Socialism
Video: The economics of socialism (speech by T Rahman)
JV Stalin, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, 1951
4. Organisation
Promoting the party using social media
Sprit in work
The foolish old man who removed the mountains by Mao Zedong, 1945
Combat liberalism by Mao Zedong, 1937
Revolutionary organisation, democratic centralism, mass work – what does real unity look like?
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik), 1938
VI Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, 1901
VI Lenin, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 1904
K Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1875
Formation of the CPGB-ML
A new party, Proletarian, August 2004
Formation of the CPGB-ML, Proletarian, August 2004
Video: New Year’s message – another world is possible! (speech by H Brar)
More about the party and its programme
5. History: World wars, revolutions and national-liberation struggles
World War 1
World War One: an Interimperialist War to Redivide the World
Imperialism and the split in socialism (VI Lenin)
The military programme of the proletarian revolution (VI Lenin)
The Russian revolution of October 1917
The international significance of the October revolution
JV Stalin, The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists
The international character of the October revolution by JV Stalin
Video: Soviet communism – the truth (H Brar on Durham student radio)
Refutation of the bourgeois falsification of soviet communism
Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union (M Sousa)
Video: Lies about Soviet Socialism (M Sousa)
Video: Celebrate the October revolution (H Brar at 2008 anniversary celebrations)
Video: What does the Soviet Union mean to us? (J Brar at 2008 anniversary celebrations)
Lies about the history of the USSR
Stalin: fearless leader and friend of the international proletariat
Why carry a Stalin banner on May Day?
Stalin, friend of the Chinese people (Mao Zedong)
50th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin
Memories of Stalin (General V Varennikov, who defended Stalin’s legacy to the last)
A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages (A Rothstein, Daily Worker)
50 years after the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin (L Martens)
Memories of Stalin (Y Zhdanov, son-in-law)
Trotskyism or Leninism? (H Brar)
Another View of Stalin (L Martins)
The continuing revolution in Stalin-era Soviet history (G Furr)
Life under socialism
World War 2
The Soviet Victory Over Fascism (H Brar)
Video: Seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism
Seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism
60th anniversary of the liberation of Vienna by the Red Army
The so-called ‘Hitler-Stalin’ pact
The Battle of Stalingrad
Video: The Battle of Stalingrad – a victory for humanity
Stalingrad – victory over fascism
A personal account of experiences in the German Panzers at Stalingrad (H Metelmann)
Video: Through hell for Hitler (interview with H Metelmann)
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor – a piece of Nazi war propaganda (M Sousa)
The Chinese revolution
(1) Video: Reasons to support China
Video: Mao Zedong: New China – New Life!
Video: The Comintern and the Chinese Revolution:
View whole presentation (playlist)
Part 4 — Revolutionary suicide
Part 5 — Trotsky’s tactical mistakes
Stalin and the Chinese Revolution:
Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
Internationalism: socialism and national-liberation struggles
Communists and the struggle against imperialism
The international character of the October Revolution (JV Stalin)
In memory of Norman Bethune (Mao Zedong)
Marxism and the National Question (JV Stalin)
Video: North Korea reality check (eye witness account of the DPR Korea)
Video: Zimbabwe speaks
(1) 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution
The counter-revolution and the collapse of the USSR
Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR (H Brar)
Perestroika – the Complete Collapse of Revisionism (H Brar)
Video: Khrushchevite revisionism and the demise of the USSR
Video: Market socialism = capitalist restoration
6. Roots of socialism
The three sources and three component parts of Marxism by VI Lenin
French socialism and the Paris Commune of 1871
The Civil War in France, 1871 (K Marx)
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-50 (K Marx)
English capitalism and wage slavery
The Condition of the Working Class in England (F Engels)
7. Britain
Video: The history of the communist movement in Britain
A class analysis of British society at the start of the 21st century
Racism and black nationalism
Capitalism and immigration (H Brar)
Scottish nationalism
The national question in Scotland: is Scotland a nation?
Scotland: a part of the British nation
Scottish nationalism: weakening the working class movement
Scottish nationalism is a dangerous diversion
Bourgeois feminism
Work in progress…
British imperialism
Video: Should we fight for queen and country? (H Brar at the Durham Union)
Video: Labour, Lybia and Stop the War
Video: Syria – imperialist destabilisation
The European Union and Brexit – Videos:
Workers for Brexit – EU Referendum
Will the EU survive the crisis?
Why British workers need a Brexit
Brexit: Turmoil in the imperialist camp
Bourgeois trends in the working-class movement:
Trotskyism
Trotskyism or Leninism? (H Brar)
Land and Freedom – Trotskyism squared (Spanish Civil War)
Dismembering history: how Trotskyism ‘remembers’ the Spanish civil war
George Orwell: Anti-Communist Propagandist, Champion of Trotskyism and State Informer (J Brar)
Video: Trotskyism or Leninism?
Anarchism
Anarchism or Socialism? (JV Stalin)
The dictatorship of the proletariat
The poverty of Philosophy (Karl Marx)
Video: Anarchism or socialism?
Social democracy (the Labour party)
Social Democracy – the Enemy Within (H Brar)
Imperialism and the split in socialism (VI Lenin)
‘Left-Wing’ Communism, an Infantile Disorder (VI Lenin)
Revisionist communism
Video: Britain’s road to socialism
Social Democracy – the Enemy Within
Journals
Bourgeois newspapers are maintained by large sums of capital. Workers’ newspapers are maintained by funds collected by the workers themselves. (VI Lenin)
Proletarian
Lalkar