Socialism in the Park - Permanent Revolution, Stalinism and the Transitional Programme

Julius Arscott speaks on “Permanent Revolution, Stalinism and the Transitional Programme”

How was the world’s first workers’ state, the USSR, established, and how did its political degeneration cripple the revolutionary workers’ movement for generations? How was fascism, a feature of capitalist decay, utilized to decimate labour and the left, while permitting big business to re-stabilize its rule? How did revolutionary socialists kept Marxism alive, apply its scientific method (including the strategy of Permanent Revolution).

Only Marxism is fully able to explain the post-World War 2 rebellions, the Cuban Revolution, feminism, anti-racism and current anti-imperialist movements from Venezuela to Palestine. Julius will present the Transitional Programme -- a platform of democratic, defensive and transitional demands employed by socialists to raise class consciousness and to win concrete gains for the vast majority.