Unique thing happening in London .... --- 'Marxism 2025' -- It's a festival !!

 There is a unique thing happening in London. 

'Marxism 2025' -- It's a festival of socialist ideas being hosted from July 3 to July 6th in Shoreditch, London. 

As expected; it will bring together meetings, speakers, debates, live music, a culture tent, film screenings, etc etc !!  

Now, into more specifics, Marxism Festival is a four-day political festival of socialist ideas hosted by the Socialist Workers Party.

On immigrant workers 'suppressing' the wages of local workers, another minefield for today’s younger people, a letter Marx sent in 1870 to two associates in New York City offers brilliant clues on how to deal not only with the Nigel Farages of the world but also with some leftists who have bitten the anti-immigration bait.

In his letter, Marx fully acknowledges that American and English employers were purposely exploiting cheap Irish immigrant labour, pitting them against native-born workers and weakening labour solidarity. 

But for Marx it was self-defeating for trade unions to turn against the Irish immigrants and espouse anti-immigration narratives. 

No, the solution was never to banish immigrant workers but to organise them. And if the problem is the weakness of the unions, or fiscal austerity, then the solution can never be to scapegoat immigrant workers.  

Communists trying to make a comeback

In 2025; it is no big deal to admit that across the world, it is clear that the status quo has failed and the system has broken.

From the refugee crisis to the earthquake of Brexit; from the ever-growing inequality in society to multiple wars we are in. From the rise of Trump in the USA to other endless issues and conflicts. 

Now more than ever, therefore, there is a need for revolutionary change and a socialist alternative.  

Marx : Whose advice lies buried under the sands of time 

Well, Karl Marx himself had said:  "Trade unions work well as centres of resistance against the encroachments of capital. [But] they fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerrilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of also trying to change it.”  

Only through Marx’s lens can we truly get it: that to own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively -- says an article in London's prestigious newspaper 'The Guardian'.  

Not long ago, maverick Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis said - the Left “think of themselves as people created by the universe in order to bring socialism over capitalism. 

I am telling you: you know what, you missed it. You missed it. Somebody killed capitalism. We have something worse.” 

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