Spart Talk
English-language podcast of the Spartacist League. Listen for a revolutionary Trotskyist perspective on key questions for the workers movement internationally.
Spart Talk
What the left?! The crisis in the Marxist left and tasks of communists, with Comrade Perrault
Mansa is back with Comrade Perrault to discuss the crisis of the left and the tasks of revolutionaries in the changing world situation. We discuss what exactly are the causes and symptoms of this crisis and why left groups who think they've escaped it are deluded; why left organisations ignore each other to their own detriment; the necessity of political clarification in the left; and why the current period calls for defensive struggles, not reckless offensives or abstentionist calls for revolution and socialism.
The discussion touches on themes in Perrault's presentation to the IEC Plenum of the ICL in April, reprinted in Spartacist: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/crisis-left
US imperialism turns the screws: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/screws
2023 Conference document, The breakdown of US hegemony and the struggle for workers' power: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/breakdown
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