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Critique of the Gotha Programme; Marx, 1875 — Reference points #11
2026/09/29
Audiobook of The “Critique of the Gotha Programme” written by Karl Marx as private communication to the SDAP leadership in 1875, later published in “Die Neue Zeit” newspaper in 1891. Here with Engels’ forward plus two other letters, by Marx and Engels respectively. Read it online: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
Notes: https://workersliberty.org/story/2024-07-28/critique-gotha-programme
Article on it to be published in Solidarity 775: https://workersliberty.org/solidarity
Chapters/timestamps:
00:00 Foreword by Engels, 1891
02:50 Marx letter to W. Bracke, May 1875
06:25 Engels letter to A. Bebel, March 1875
Marginal Notes to the Program of the German Workers’ Party (i.e. Critique of the Gotha Programme), April/May 1875
21:20 § I
45:20 § II
49:40 § III
52:25 § IV
01:02:10 Appendix
PDF version of the critique (different order and contents): https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/C16-Critique-of-the-Gotha-Program-2nd-Printing.pdf
The Gotha Programme: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotha_Program
#11 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
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Audiobook recording with thanks to “@MarxistAudiobooks”. Music public domain. Image: first published copy of the Critique, DNZ 1891.
774 — Fascist danger on the streets: Workers' United front against the far right | News, debate, international, much more
2026/09/25
Solidarity 774, 23 September 2026. Articles:
Far right danger on the streets
Misfortune again for Germany?
A skilful but shameful balancing act
Putin targets Ukraine’s infrastructure
Unions pledge to fight for trans rights. But now?
Houthis advance, conflict spirals
TUC: what sort of unity?
The Civil War in France
Far right surges in Germany
Labour conference, Burnham, and the left
Fidel Castro: A modest caudillo? — Letter
Super El Niño will bring heatwaves and droughts
The Communist Manifesto and working-class self-education
Postscript to Rosdolsky on 1848-9
Hackney anti-austerity summit asks the right questions... Short on answers
Rosdolsky's dissection of Marx's and Engels's errors on national questions in 1848-9
Housing: Burnham fails at first hurdle
New wave of university cuts
Defend Risa Tan, suspended Prospect rep
Brighton University to derecognise unions
MHCLG updates
London bus workers score climate win
It is for the Irish people to decide unity, and how
After the heatwaves, the big events
Update on PA ban
The RCP and shallow optimism
Helping "Protect the Harvest"
PCS to ballot from 20 October
The death of cinema?
Trans people in Wales fight back
Fourteen more strike days at GCU
Building the "purple current" in Israel
Scotland: Thin promises from Marra
ELFT workers prepare for strikes against cuts
Sanctions are a positive step, but fundamental change requires a movement on the ground
Is Trump running out of time?
Seventy years after Khrushchev denounced Stalin
To defeat One Nation, turn round the labour movement
Lambeth Green Party debates BDS
Hal Draper did not just retreat to his study
More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-774-23-september-2026
The Civil War in France; Marx, 1871 — Reference points #10
2026/09/14
Audiobook of “The Civil War in France” by Karl Marx, on the Paris Commune and the lead up to it, delivered as speeches by Marx in 1870-71. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ which also links to a timeline, glossary, and other references and background.
Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-09-21/civil-war-france
Study notes: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-09-21/civil-war-france
Chapters/timestamps:
00:00 Publication info
02:13 Engels’ 1891 intro
The First Address, July 23, 1870
21:23 The Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War — Chapter 1
The Second Address: September 9, 1870
33:06 Prussian Occupation of France — Chapter 2
The Third Address: May, 1871
52:06 France Capitulates & the Government of Thiers — Chapter 3
01:18:39 Paris Workers’ Revolution & Thiers’ Reactionary Massacres — Chapter 4
01:39:05 The Paris Commune — Chapter 5
02:19:20 The Fall of Paris — Chapter 6
02:51:56 Engels 1891 Postscript
#10 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
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Audiobook recording with thanks to “Adrestia's Revolt” and “Dakki Reads”. Music public domain. Photo of a barricade in the Paris Commune, March 18, 1871
773 — Reform on the back foot but not beaten: Workers' united front against far right! | Much more
2026/08/27
Solidarity 773, 26 August 2026. Articles:
Reform is on the back foot but not beaten
Trump lashes out: oppose sanctions on Iran
Left unites against far-right attack on socialist stall
Resisting Reform in Wakefield
Andy Burnham and council housing
Israeli right plans to bisect West Bank
Eulogising Castro… and re-writing Cuban history
Crackdown sharpens in Russia
Support Ukraine; oppose targeting civilians
Trump scrabbles to avoid mid-terms setback
Afghan women suffer from both Taliban and Trump
More money for prisons is no answer
Free Lee, Chow and all HK political prisoners!
Self-determination for Western Sahara
Burnham is still “Labour right”. How will the left respond?
How British Trotskyism began
How close are the “tipping points”?
Capital, chapters six and seven
Apologetics ride out
Making a new "philosophical movement"
A wealth tax? A Zucman tax
Musk and feral Trumpism
Public service broadcasting and us
Poor choice for Scottish Labour leader
Sharon Graham re-elected in Unite
Rebuilding union strength in local government
Raising £15,000 by November
All down to service control
Arday: from questions to vilification
Béla Lugosi, 1882-1956, trade union organiser
Students get ready for the term
Rayner agrees to meet MHCLG PCS
RNLI strikers increase pressure on bosses
Iran: against war, against sanctions
Stop Rosebank and Jackdaw
The "Right Side of History"?
Strike for heatwave protection
Fight this bid to ban union trans-inclusivity!
Unite and the "catalogue of deficiencies"
More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-773-26-august-2026
Capital pt VIII; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.9
2026/08/27
Ninth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: VIII: Primitive Accumulation. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents/Timestamps:
Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation
00:00 Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
07:50 Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
33:35 Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
49:35 Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
52:40 Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital
01:00:25 Chapter 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
01:23:10 Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
01:29:45 Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Ninth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
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Capital pt VII; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.8
2026/08/26
Eighth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Contents/Timestamps (see below for tables):
Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital
00:00 Intro to Part VII
03:18 Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
27:37 Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
Section 1: Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation
Section 2: Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale
Section 3: Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory
Section 4: Circumstances that, Independently of the Proportional Division of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue, Determine the Amount of Accumulation. Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power. Productivity of Labour. Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. Magnitude of Capital Advanced
Section 5: The So-Called Labour Fund
01:29:55 Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Section 1: The Increased Demand for labour power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the same
Section 2: Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it
Section 3: Progressive Production of a Relative surplus population or Industrial Reserve Army
Section 4: Different Forms of the Relative surplus population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation
Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
The mentioned table of the distribution of certain incomes in 1864-5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5 or summarised below:
1864
Total £95.8m | 308.4k people
Of those £57.0m | 23.3k
Of those £36.4m | 3.6k
Of those £22.8m | 832
Of those £8.7m | 91
1865
Total £105.4m | 332.4k people
Of those £64.6m | 24.3k
Of those £42.5m | 4.0k
Of those £27.6m | 973
Of those £11.1m | 107
The tables on Ireland at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5f the second summarised (table B/C):
CHANGE IN AREA UNDER CROPS/GRASS IN IRELAND
CEREAL CROPS
1861 ↓ 16k
1862 ↓ 73k
1863 ↓ 145k
1864 ↓ 122k
1865 ↓ 72k
TOTAL ↓ 428k
GREEN CROPS
1861 ↓ 37k
1862 ↓ 75k
1863 ↓ 19k
1864 ↓ 2.3k
1865 ↑ 25k
TOTAL ↓ 108k
GRASS & CLOVER
1861 ↓ 48k
1862 ↑ 6.6k
1863 ↑ 7.7k
1864 ↑ 47k
1865 ↑ 69k
TOTAL ↑ 83k
FLAX
1861 ↑ 19k
1862 ↑ 2.1k
1863 ↑ 64k
1864 ↑ 88k
1865 ↓ 50k
TOTAL ↑ 123k
TOTAL CULTIVATED LAND
1861 ↓ 81k
1862 ↓ 139k
1863 ↓ 92k
1864 ↑ 10k
1865 ↓ 28k
TOTAL ↓ 330k
↓ decrease ↑ increase
k = thousand acres
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Eighth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
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Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain
Capital pt V-VI; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.7
2026/08/25
Seventh part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value and Part VI: Wages. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents/timestamps:
Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
00:00 Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
20:53 Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Section 1: Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable
Section 2: Working day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable
Section 3: Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working day Variable
Section 4: Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
45:08 Chapter 18: Various Formula for the Rate of Surplus-Value
Part VI: Wages
51:38 Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
01:06:04 Chapter 20: Time-Wages
01:18:40 Chapter 21: Piece Wages
01:31:17 Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Seventh part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
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Capital pt IV ch. 15; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.6
2026/08/22
Sixth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapter 15 (i.e. the rest of part IV). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Figures mentioned can be found within the following sections:
§5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S5
Summarised below, the UK-wide result of mechanical improvements in the cotton industry due to the USA civil war.
1857 | 1861 | 1868
Factories: 2,210 | 2,887 | 2,549
Power looms: 298,847 | 399,992 | 379,329
Spindles: 28.01m | 30.39m | 32.00m
Employed: 379,213 | 451,569 | 401,064
§7 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S7
Summarised, grain etc. UK imports/exports:
Years: 1831–35 | 1836–40 | 1841–45 | 1846–50 | 1851–55 | 1856–60 | 1861–65 | 1866
Import: 1.10mn | 2.39mn | 2.84mn | 8.78mn | 8.35mn | 10.91mn | 15.01mn | 16.46mn
Export: 0.23mn | 0.25mn | 0.14mn | 0.16mn | 0.31mn | 0.34mn | 0.30mn | 0.22mn
Excess: 0.87mn | 2.14mn | 2.70mn | 8.62mn | 8.04mn | 10.57mn | 14.71mn | 16.24mn
Population: 24.62mn | 25.93mn | 27.26mn | 27.80mn | 27.57mn | 28.39mn | 29.38mn | 29.94mn
Corn/head: 0.036 | 0.082 | 0.099 | 0.310 | 0.291 | 0.372 | 0.501 | 0.543
§8C https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S8c
Chief medical officer gave evidence of impacts of industries on health:
Industry & # employed | Deaths/100,000 by age: 25–35 | 35–45 | 45–55
Agriculture (E&W), 958,265 employed | 743 | 805 | 1,145
London tailors, 22,301 men + 12,379 women | 958 | 1,262 | 2,093
London printers, 13,803 employed | 894 | 1,747 | 2,367
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents:
Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry
Section 1 : The Development of Machinery
Section 2: The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
Section 3: The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
Section 4: The Factory
Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine
Section 6: The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
Section 7: Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade
Section 8: Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry
Section 9: The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the same. Their General Extension in England
Section 10: Modern Industry and Agriculture
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Sixth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
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Capital pt IV ch. 12-14; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.5
2026/08/22
Fifth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapters 12 to 14. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents/timestamps:
Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value
00:00 Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
19:11 Chapter 13: Co-operation
45:04 Chapter 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture
Section 1: Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture
Section 2: The Detail Labourer and his Implements
Section 3: The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture
Section 4: Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
Section 5: The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Fifth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
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Capital pt III ch. 8-11; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.4
2026/08/21
Fourth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: the rest of Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value — chapters 8 to 11. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents/timestamps:
Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
00:00 Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
35:31 Section 1: The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
01:01:04 Section 2: The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself
01:10:06 Section 3: Senior’s “Last Hour”
01:27:59 Section 4: Surplus-Produce
Chapter 10: The Working Day
01:30:23 Section 1: The Limits of the Working Day
01:43:38 Section 2: The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard
02:09:23 Section 3: Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation
02:49:58 Section 4: Day and Night Work. The Relay System
03:15:48 Section 5: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century
03:59:51 Section 6: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864
05:00:48 Section 7: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
05:17:53 Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Fourth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
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Capital pt II ch. 6 & pt III ch. 7; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.3
2026/08/20
Third part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapter 6 from part II and chapter 7 from part III. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Article on it, particularly chapters six and seven as in this audio https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven . If you are only going to listen to one Capital audio for now while you follow the reference points reading list, listen to this one.
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Contents/timestamps:
00:00 Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power (from Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital)
Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
Chapter VII: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
30:22 Section 1: The Labour-Process or the Production of use-values
01:02:53 Section 2: The Production of Surplus-Value
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Third part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
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Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.
Capital pt II ch. 4-5; Marx, 1867 — Ref #9.2
2026/08/20
Second part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapters 4 and 5 from Part II. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven
Contents/timestamps:
Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital
00:00 Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
36:42 Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
Second part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
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Capital pt I; Marx, 1867 — Reference points #9.1
2026/08/19
First part of the audiobook of "Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Volume 1 (The Process of Production of Capital)" by Karl Marx, published in 1867. This section: editor's and authors prefaces plus Part I: Commodities and Money (Chapters 1-3). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ (not necessarily the same translation, and not all prefaces etc. included).
Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course
Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven
Chapters and timestamps:
00:00 Editor's preface to the first English edition; Engels 1886
10:55 Preface to the first German edition; Marx 1867
22:22 Afterward to the second edition; Marx, 1873
Part 1: Commodities and Money
Chapter 1: Commodities
44:27 Section 1: The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)
01:04:03 Section 2: The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
01:22:44 Section 3: The Form of Value or Exchange-Value.
• Introduction
• A: Elementary or Accidental Form of Value
02:07:33 • B: Total or Expanded Form of Value
02:15:06 • C: The General Form of Value
• D: The Money Form
02:31:48 Section 4: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
03:14:25 Chapter 2: Exchange
Chapter 3: Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities
03:52:47 Section 1: The Measure of Values
Section 2: The Medium of Circulation
04:22:17 • A: The Metamorphosis of Commodities
04:55:04 • B: The Currency of Money
05:31:10 • C: Coin and symbols of value
05:50:53 Section 3: Money
• Introduction
• A: Hoarding
06:05:35 • B: Means of Payment
06:27:49 • C: Universal Money
Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement
First part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio
Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.
772 — Mass council house building now! | Buses strike over heat | Much more
2026/08/18
Solidarity 772, 12 August 2026. Contents:
Mass council-house building now
Councils defy EHRC Code of Practice
Labour conference 2026
Ebola, democracy, and mining profits
Arriva North buses strike over heat
Burnham challenged to lift PA ban
Iran: stop the war. Arrogant Trump messes up
Good riddance Steve Reed. Look to Finland
"Lock them up" is reactionary demagogy
Left must say more about how to unify Ireland
Support the binational left in Israel
Clacton, Farage and “buon senso”
Your Party: from inactivity to crisis
East London health workers fight cuts
Trump's threats to November vote
The lies of capitalist fish-farming
When will the 50% threshold go?
How to cool your workplace
Halfway to solidarity with sex workers
New network launched against uni cuts
A new network against university cuts
Police clampdown in Bristol
Schools in Belgium: how strikes change people
How to win strikes, even some difficult ones
Our reference points: Wages, Price, and Profit
In Retrospect: "Proximity denial" - ethnic minorities in the far right
Farage's outrider on the further right
Wakefield's Reform council, flags, and landlords
Tax the rich, says China
The first 24 days of Andy Burnham
Scottish Labour: a critical vote for Monica Lennon
A European convoy to keep Ukraine from disappearing
For Ukraine, against Russian imperialism. Against Ukraine’s attacks on civilian infrastructure
Diary of a Tubeworker: Planning without enough workers
Kino Eye: Billy Liar re-released
PCS NEC aims to change the union
Glasgow Caledonian on strike
RNLI workers strike for increased redundancy payments
Theatre assistants strike in Leeds
Anas Sarwar: so long, suckers!
More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-772-12-august-2026
Wages, Price, & Profit; Marx, 1865 — Reference points #8
2026/07/22
Audiobook of "Wages, Price, and Profit" (also known as "Value, Price and Profit") by Karl Marx, published 1865. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf
Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-21/our-reference-points-wages-price-and-profit?language_content_entity=en
Chapters and rough timestamps:
00:00 Preliminary
01:29 I. Production and Wages
06:56 II. Production, Wages, Profits
29:16 III. Wages and Currency
39:55 IV. Supply and Demand
44:44 V. Wages and Prices
50:50 VI. Value and Labour
01:11:28 VII. Labour Power
01:17:54 VIII. Production of Surplus Value
01:23:28 IX. Value of Labour
01:27:05 X. Profit is Made by Selling a Commodity at Its Value
01:29:50 XI. The Different Parts into which Surplus Value is Decomposed
01:37:30 XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages, and Prices
01:42:33 XIII. Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting their Fall
01:57:55 XIV. The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results
#8 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list
Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a
Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio
Audiobook recording with thanks to: “Radical Reads”. Music public domain. Photo of Marx in London, 1861.
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