NYU Marxist Student Association

08/27/2017

The consciously organized working class, in the form of a mass socialist party, could stop a burgeoning fascist movement in its tracks.

05/03/2017

The New York branch successfully intervened at the May Day rally in Union Square. Excellent job, comrades!

04/28/2017

Millions of workers have been urged to take a stand against government plans on retirement age.

04/24/2017

Yesterday, xenophobe ultra right-winger Le Pen and neoliberal ex-banker Macron won the first round in the French elections and will face off for the presidency in two weeks. Meanwhile, Mélenchon and his "Rebellious France" movement had a big upsurge in popularity, winning almost 20% of the vote with a left, anti-austerity program.
Parallels can be drawn to the 2016 US election. Macron represents the establishment and the politics in favor of big business and the banks, Le Pen is a nationalist demagogue who talks of protecting French workers by keeping immigrants out; neither provides a way out of the economic and social instability hitting France since the 2008 crisis.

But, "regardless of the result, this campaign represents an historic opportunity to galvanise the forces of the Left and pose a genuine alternative to the reactionary policies of both Le Pen and Macron. If, post-election, Mélenchon is able to transform his campaign into a vast political movement, organised around a socialist programme to transform society, the result will be an important step forward, not only for the workers of France but all of Europe."

This is a statement by Révolution, the French section of the International Marxist Tendency issued as soon as the results of the first round of the presidential election were known. 

04/13/2017

"Nearly 70% of the airline industry is in the hands of four companies: American, Delta, Southwest, and United—the latter alone accounting for a market share of 14.5%. With their enormous capital, these companies are often the only option for passengers traveling to smaller cities via connected flights. Considering United’s plans to aggressively expand, their position is not going to be determined by the opinions of their passengers, who are treated as nothing but a means of obtaining profit, but by the whims of their investors. The need to guarantee profits by selling in excess of supply is why the practice of overbooking is so prevalent, and why customers are contractually required to accept their forced removal from the plane. It is then perfectly sensible, within the logic of the system, that the initial reaction of the stock market was to reward United, via more stock purchases, for brutalizing one of its passengers."

On Sunday, April 9th, United Airlines sparked a wave of outrage by forcibly disembarking an elderly Asian-American doctor after management overbooked the flight, literally dragging him out of the plane with his face bloodied.

03/19/2017

In honor of International Working Women's Day (March 8Th), the IMT announced the launch of our newest T-shirt - featuring a high-quality print of a republican fighter of the Spanish Civil War, and the proud proclamation of revolutionaries everywhere who believe that socialism is the only way to emancipate women from the bo***ge of capitalist servitude and oppression!

https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/t-shirts/products/a-womens-place-is-in-the-revolution-t-shirt

Our newest product in honor of International Working Women's Day! Fitted t-shirts featuring a high quality print of a proud republican fighter during the Spanis

03/19/2017

CHECK IT OUT:
The International Marxist Tendency is proud to present the In defence of October website - a new page dedicated to the Russian Revolution, with videos, reading guides and much more for all those who wish to study the Revolution and the ideas of Bolshevism.

100 years after the Russian Revolution, the lessons of that great event are more valuable than ever before.

http://www.bolshevik.info/

03/18/2017

"The recent intensification of anti-immigrant rhetoric and growth of far-right populism in various countries is ultimately a reflection of the impasse of the capitalist system. Given capitalism’s inability to create jobs, the xenophobic ravings of the far right provide an increasingly useful cover and detract attention from the contradictions inherent to the capitalist system itself."

In his first weeks in office, Trump has put 11 million undocumented workers in the crosshairs. Forced to live on the margins of a society which would not function without their labor, Trump’s provocations have merely brought the excruciating nightmare of a huge layer of the US working class into bro...

02/21/2017

NYU marxist speaking at the Montreal Winter Marxist School. Thanks to the Canadian comrades and students from Fightback for hosting such a successful event!

02/21/2017

"If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people." - Young Marx

Source: MECW Volume 1Written: between August 10 and 16, 1835First published: in Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung, 1925 Translated from the Latin.Transcribed: by Sally Ryan.