Posted on 1st Jun 2024
While major polluters make billions in profits and receive support from the state, the growing climate movement is increasingly confronted with repression and violence. The answer from the climate movement is that it must build more 'countervailing power'. But how do we build such power? Are more ra...
Posted on 1st Jun 2024
Every person should be free to move and live wherever they want. No more segregation based on nationality and residence status. Down with the walls, freedom and equality for all! But how do we get there and what does such a world look like? Cabinet Schoof I is launching a tough attack on the rights...
Posted on 1st Jun 2024
Degrowth is an idea that critiques capitalism, which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. Degrowth offers interesting potential by forming local networks and structures but often they are centered around the idea of 'revolution through reform' and di...
Posted on 16th May 2024
No fewer than 300,000 people gathered on Museumplein on October 2, 2004 against the dismantling of early retirement and disability legislation. A strike and demonstration in Rotterdam the month before had shown the willingness to take action. This battle was lost. Despite great resistance in the fed...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Socialists believe that the working class, our class, has the capacity to fundamentally transform society for the better, away from the current capitalist form of organisation and towards a society of solidarity and equality. Marxists are often accused of "class reductionism" because they focus on t...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Geert Wilders has quickly regained his position in Dutch politics. Media nowadays portray him as a socially committed figure, although a few years ago he called for the ethnic cleansing of Moroccans. His party is steeped in anti-Semitism, racism and transphobia. Despite being an embodiment of the st...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Forty years ago, miners across the United Kingdom went on strike, escalating into a fierce struggle between the working class and the state as neoliberalism made its entry. This confrontation marked a pivotal moment in British history and left deep wounds, as well as profound lessons about collectiv...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Political Islam has significantly shaped the geopolitical and cultural landscape in recent decades. However, the response from many leftists has often mirrored bourgeois and right-wing critiques, labelling various forms of political Islam as "Islamofascism" or "backward." A closer examination reveal...
Posted on 15th May 2024
The Palestinian resistance against the ongoing genocide and occupation has been a source of inspiration, despite brutal repression they are still able to resist using all means at their disposal. Regimes in the region have once again clearly shown their allegiance to the zionist entity. The wave of...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Student activists have been central in the Palestine solidarity movement in the Netherlands, highlighting the connections between Dutch universities and the Israeli state. Despite universities presenting themselves as progressive institutions, the studentuprising is being heavily supressed using vio...
Posted on 15th May 2024
It has been over a decade since the Arab revolutions erupted across North Africa and West Asia, demonstrating that societies long perceived as stable can become centres of revolutionary power and resilience among working people. These upheavals shattered the bourgeois media's narrative of "Arab back...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Over the last seven months, a brutal genocide has unfolded in Gaza. Simultaneously, resistance against the Zionist project has grown, and protest movements have swept the region and spread across the world on an unprecedented scale. Does this signify a deepening of the cracks in the Zionist project?...
Posted on 15th May 2024
In March, a significant wave of demonstrations swept across Germany, mobilising millions against the far right. This surge of protest was triggered by revelations of a clandestine meeting between the AFD and hard-right neo-Nazis, where plans to deport millions based on ethnicity and religion were di...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Since the rise of the anti-capitalist movement at the turn of the century, interest in Marx's works has increased significantly. This has been further reinforced by the recent economic crises and climate disruption. Many people are seeking an understanding of the deeper concepts that Marx lays out i...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Revolutions are not far away dreams, but regularly a reality somewhere in the world. Think of the Arab Spring, Sudan, but also in Europe where the last revolution broke out in Portugal in 1974. History shows that despite the power of working people to transform societies, most revolutionary movement...
Posted on 15th May 2024
More than two years after Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, important questions remain over how the left should respond. This war in Europe has brought the issue of self-determination and the role of NATO to the forefront. Do Ukrainians have the right to defend themselves with the help of the Wes...
Posted on 15th May 2024
The upcoming European elections are expected to be dominated by the far right. This raises urgent questions about the class character of the European Union. Far from being a progressive institution, the EU functions mainly as a capitalist commercial project that is not in the interests of the workin...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Do you feel isolated, anxious and alienated, but convinced that you are destined for success, wealth and influence? Then maybe you are a sigma man, ready to be led to success with these simple steps of capitalist self-improvement and violent misogyny! The far right has created a disturbing subcultur...
Posted on 15th May 2024
Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent Bolshevik leader, was a passionate advocate for the liberation of the working class and focused much of her work on women's and sexual liberation. During the social upheaval of revolutionary Russia, a parallel sexual revolution unfolded, prompting the Bolsheviks to s...
Posted on 15th May 2024
A century has passed since the death of Vladimir Lenin, a pivotal figure whose ideas continue to spark debate and analysis. At this year's Marxisme Festival, we delve into Lenin's real legacy, peeling away layers of distortion. While Stalin transformed Lenin into a religious icon devoid of substance...