The Marxist Workers Party of South Africa bases its programme on the following ideas: 

(1) Karl Marx (1818-83) & Friedrich Engels (1820-95)
(2) Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
(3) Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
(4) The First Four Congresses of the Communist International (1919-22)
(5) Trotsky’s Left Opposition (1923-27) and the founding of the Fourth International (1938)
(6) The Committee for a Workers International (1974) and its forerunners.

Taken together, we believe these are the ideas necessary to guide the working class’s struggle for the liberation of humankind from poverty and exploitation.

The MWP is organising a series of day schools to introduce each of these to new members and supporters. The first took place on 22 February 2020.

The workshop covered how the capitalist class first emerged, the bourgeois revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Industrial Revolution, ideas of the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s Das Kapital, the organisation of the First International and the events of the Paris Commune and their impact on the development of the Marxist Theory of the State.

The workshop was presented by Shaun Arendse for the MWP ‘s Executive Committee.

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