All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

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What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, in the fact that labor is external to the worker, that is, that it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel well but unhappy, does not freely develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore, feels himself only outside his work, and feels beside himself in his work. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His work therefore is not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that labor is shunned like the plague as soon as there is no physical or other compulsion...

Karl Marx

Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Estranged Labour

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In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx
1859
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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And so in our case now. We are far from having completed even the transitional period from capitalism to socialism. We have never cherished the hope that we could finish it without the aid of the international proletariat. We never had any illusions on that score, and we know how difficult is the road that leads from capitalism to socialism. But it is our duty to say that our Soviet Republic is a socialist republic because we have taken this road, and our words will riot be empty words.

V. I. Lenin
Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies
January 10-18 (23-31), 1918

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Anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina was executed on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.

Amid a fierce battle, Radić used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.

She fought alongside her sister Dara in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.

Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was persistent; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.

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On this day, 8 February 1887, the Dawes Act was signed into United States law by President Grover Cleveland. It authorised the President to subdivide Native American communal land into allotments for Native American individuals, with some also sold at discounted rates to white settlers.
By converting traditional systems of land tenure into a government-imposed system of private property, the act forced Native Americans to adopt a capitalist and proprietary relationship with land.
Furthermore, the act allowed tribes to sell the lands that remained after allotment to the federal government. Before the allotments could be dispensed as private property, the government had to determine eligibility, which propelled an "official search for a federal definition of Indian-ness." Individual Native Americans had to register with the Office of Indian Affairs, and have their name put on "Dawes Rolls" to be eligible to receive land. Many Black Native people, especially people who had been enslaved by Native American tribes like the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw, had difficulties or were unable to register on the rolls.
In a little over 60 years after the signing of the act, Native Americans lost control of about 100 million acres of land.

Working Class History

Originally published: 1920
Author: Vladimir Lenin

Lenin's Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder is not just a critique but a weapon—a ruthless dissection of this sterile ultra-leftism, a reaffirmation of Marxist strategy against doctrinaire impotence. It is a manual for those who seek real revolution, not fantasy.

If you wish to understand why Marxism is a science and not a religion, why Leninism is the art of the possible and not an abstract dogma, and why real revolutionaries do not wait for perfect conditions but create them—then this book is indispensable.

For today, in Black History Month, watch former Black Panther, revolutionary, and scholar Kathleen Cleaver respond to the question of non-violence, arguing that “non-violence is non-functional.” Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1967. She became the first woman to be included in the BPP’s Central Committee, the highest decision-making body within the organization. She wrote many of the organization’s speeches, delivering them nationwide and serving as a media spokesperson.

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A group of Neo-Nazi protesters was chased out of town by residents in Lincoln Heights, a Black-majority neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the US.

Residents were also able to seize their flag and burn it. The Nazi group involved is believed to be a sect called “Hate Club 1488”.

The small group of Nazis held up swastika flags and displayed guns in Lincoln Heights but soon escaped when the local community came out in greater numbers, some with firearms to protect residents.

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The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.

Karl Marx
Theses On Feuerbach

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The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party

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🔴 Socialism or barbarism–a statement of fact
✍🏻 Morning Star Online

ENGELS once said that capitalist society “stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”

Commenting on these remarks during World War I, the great socialist Rosa Luxemburg said:

What does ‘regression into barbarism’ mean to our lofty European civilisation? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilisation.

Today, as we see the climate catastrophe, the wars in Gaza and elsewhere, the insane new nuclear arms race which is set to escalate, and the dire economic situation globally, it is clearly the case that the choice is socialism or barbarism.

Furthermore, the return of Donald Trump represents a new, heightening phase in the barbarism that is the U.S. empire’s ongoing war on the majority of humanity.

In terms of the world economy, global poverty and inequality levels show how barbarism is already a reality across much of the globe.

An Oxfam report last year confirmed the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes since 2020, while the wealth of the poorest 60 per cent has fallen.

If these trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.

Unfortunately, there won’t be a habitable planet if capitalism continues anywhere near that long!

Oxfam may not be a socialist movement, but it does eloquently point out how sharply increasing billionaire wealth and rising corporate power are interconnected.

These are of course the conclusions Rosa Luxemburg herself made as she analysed the emergence of imperialism as a phase of capitalism, also linked intrinsically with the drive to war, saying:

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

Today it is weapons made in the U.S. and Britain–and still sold by the government of Keir Starmer and David Lammy–that use technology to commit genocide in Gaza.

But there is hope that the flame of resistance can burn brighter too in the period ahead.

The mass movements on Palestine show how millions have not only had enough of war and misery, but are making the link between the wars and the profit-driven, crisis-ridden economic system that drives them.

The same is true in the climate justice movement, where placards often carry the slogan “system change not climate change.”

On both counts, Trump’s return–flanked by Elon Musk and a motley crew of profiteers and polluters–will for millions in the U.S., here and around the world starkly confirm the need for a different economic order.

And as I’ve pointed to in the Morning Star before, polling shows remarkable things in terms of how people perceive an economic system that puts corporate greed before public need.

To give one illuminating example. In Britain, a 2023 YouGov survey showed that while among those born between 1946-64, only 4 per cent of people have a positive view of Lenin, he was popular among 40 per cent of millennials (those born between 1981-96). And another poll published shortly afterwards by the Fraser Institute found that nearly a third of young people (18 to 34-year-olds) believe that “communism is the ideal economic system.”

And we know that socialist solutions to the crises that we put forward, such as water and energy public ownership, or wealth taxes to fund public services, have massive popular support that goes way beyond this layer of radical younger people.

It is therefore more than possible that a mass anti-capitalist mood, and movements organised by the left based around it, can emerge here in the next period.

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🔴 South African communists blast Trump’s imperialist agenda: “We will not bow to imperialist threats”
✍🏻 South African Communist Party (SACP)

For the record, Trump is not the President of South Africa—he is the president of the United States. We will not allow him to interfere in our internal affairs, undermine our democratic national sovereignty, or impose his reactionary will upon our people. Our national self-determination was not handed to us on a silver platter by the imperialist-backed apartheid regime—it is the hard-won result of centuries of gallant resistance against colonial oppression and decades of liberation struggle. We have proven, beyond any doubt, our ability to stand firm against the racist regimes and agendas that once sought to subjugate our people.

Trump’s comments are based on a racist, distorted briefing from the beneficiaries of apartheid, falsely alleging that the South African government has “confiscated land” during this democratic dispensation and probably committed worse atrocities. In contradiction, it was under the racist regimes of colonial and apartheid oppression that the historical injustice of land confiscation occurred. This racist past and its legacy must be addressed. It is, among others, the historical task of the new Expropriation Act to do so. We will not allow Trump to enforce the legacy of colonial and apartheid land confiscation in our country.

Trump has parroted the maliciously fabricated junk, revealing his racist sympathies. Furthermore, Trump ignorantly assumes that South Africa is dependent on United States aid and has threatened to withdraw such support based on the racist blue lies. As President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified in an X post on 3 February 2025, “With the exception of PEPFAR Aid, which constitutes 17% of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS programme, there is no other funding that is received by South Africa from the United States”. Trump’s rants through the so-called “Truthing” and “reTruthing” on “TruthSocial”—his social media platform which should be aptly renamed “FalseSocial”—amount to nothing but “Falsifying” and “reFalsifying”.

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Seen in Philadelphia

Seen in Girona, Spain

Tell me, Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko, how many men have you killed?

— Not a single man. Just 309 Nazis.