History

On 21 January 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the lead architect of the 1917 October Revolution and the foundational theorist of the world's first successful socialist state, died at the age of 53. His passing was not merely the death of a man but a seismic event in the history of the global class struggle. It marked the end of the Bolshevik Revolution's first, most dynamic phase and opened a period of intense contestation over the socialist project's future. Lenin's leadership was forged in the furnace of a collapsing Tsarist autocracy, a system of feudal-capitalist barbarity that oppressed workers, peasants, and entire nations within the Russian Empire. Lenin's indispensable contribution was the translation of Marxist theory into a practical revolutionary science for the imperialist epoc...

Picture from wikipedia Today we commemorate the birth of Cyril Lionel Robert James, a titan of revolutionary thought and a foundational figure in the tradition of Marxist-Pan-Africanism. Born on 4 January 1901 in Tunapuna, Trinidad, James dedicated his life to articulating and advancing the inseparable cause of global working class emancipation and anti-colonial liberation. His work stands as a profound correction to Eurocentric Marxism, insisting that the struggle of the Black people and colonised peoples generally was not a secondary concern but the very vanguard of the world socialist movement. James's intellectual journey began within the contradictions of the British colonial education system, which provided him with the tools of Western literature and history while he lived und...