A reprint of 1979 pamphlet originally published by Militant, as a contribution towards the question: Can Corbynomics lead to socialism?

We are republishing the late Andrew Glyn’s pamphlet Capitalist Crisis as a result of new layers of activists looking for an alternative to capitalism, expressed at the time of publication in the mass waves of support behind Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, as well as the massive disillusionment with the existing economic and social model capitalism offers following the financial crash of 2008-9.

Hungarian Revolution – an inspiration for the socialist struggle today

For a few days at the end of October 1956, power was in the hands of the working class in Hungary. An insurrection and general strike was in progress. The old politicians and their hated system of government had been pushed aside. Revolutionary councils had been formed in the factories, in the countryside, in the universities and inside the army and police forces. The state machine had crumbled.
Few, if any, wanted a return to capitalism. Real socialism was firmly on the agenda. A revolutionary party like the Bolsheviks in Russia, 1917, could have lead this workers' rising to victory. With an international appeal to the workers of the world, the revolution could have spread so far and wide that both Stalinism and capitalism would have been wiped from the face of the earth.
Fifty years later, the struggle for genuine socialism is still hampered by the crimes of Stalinism and the way the capitalists use them to discredit the whole idea struggling against their system. But the Committee for a Workers’ International, with sections, groups and individual members in 45 countries, on all continents, is striving to reach new sections of young people and workers, to convince them that the struggle for socialism is as vital today as ever.
The burning need to cleanse the world of capitalism and landlordism, of war, poverty and environmental destruction means we cannot rest. The heroism of the millions of youth and workers in Hungary who made a revolution against Stalinist dictatorship and for real workers' democracy remains an inspiration to all who want to change the world.

September 2016 issue

Includes articles on:

Corbyn Insurgency 2.0 - NOW LET'S FINISH THE JOB
Corbyn's Brexit Opportunity
Iraq & the war on terror
US Democrats meet
Green China

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October 2016 issue

Includes articles on:
Who's afraid of Leon Trotsky?
Corbyn's economic challenge
Unions & the gig economy
The sixties revisited
Hong Kong

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November 2016 issue

Left populism everywhere?
Corbynism's global impact
Spain: PSOE in crisis
Labour's Trident War
The Left in Brazil

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December/January 2016/17 issue

Includes articles on:
Socialism or Trumpism
Britain: new political contours
Irish socialists on trial
US lessons for Corbyn
World perspectives

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February 2017 issue

Includes articles on:
Trotsky and the February Revolution
The fight against Trump
Trotsky in New York
Spirit of Marikana
Afghanistan

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March 2017 issue

Includes articles on:
Women against Trump: A New Movement Rising
Royal Academy vs Bolsheviks
Can councils stop cuts?
Trump and Brexit
Climate danger

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April 2017 issue

Includes articles on:
Brexit: what should the left say?
South Africa migrant struggles
Brexit and Northern Ireland
Netherlands elections
Women and 1917

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