On 12 February, at 7 pm, we will host “Tracing the chain: a Marxist–Leninist analysis of imperialism today,” a political event aimed at clarifying imperialism as a structural stage of capitalist development rather than a matter of political government or geopolitical alignment.
We will outline the theoretical coordinates of capitalism and imperialism from Marx to Lenin, while critically confronting past and present theoretical distortions that detach anti-imperialism from class struggle. In an analysis of key states and contemporary conflicts, we will present imperialism as a global and hierarchical system shaped by uneven development and mutual dependencies, in which all capitalist states are integrated into relations of competition, domination, and subordination.
We will also examine the specific case of Britain, in which imperialist dominance abroad is sustained alongside growing structural vulnerabilities at home, revealing the uneven, contradictory and crisis-ridden character of contemporary imperialism. The event will include breakout discussions, in which comrades can collectively engage with and critically debate sections of our statement on imperialism. Read our statement here.
Our political conclusion is clear: anti-imperialism is revolutionary only when it is inseparable from the independent organisation of the working class and the struggle for socialism. Separated from this foundation, it becomes a mechanism for reorganising bourgeois power within the imperialist system rather than abolishing it.