What is the permanent revolution? Revolutionary strategy for the Global South, with comrade Anna Mili

Mansa is joined by Anna Mili of the Trotskyist Group of Greece to discuss key questions for revolutionary strategy for the Global South, a burning question for the left as US imperialism turns the screws on the whole world, squeezing oppressed countries even further. Historically, the Marxist left has fallen into a trap of either supporting the national bourgeoisie against imperialism, or abstractly being for class war, denying that national oppression animates the masses. We argue that the task of revolutionaries is to fuse the national liberation struggle with the struggle for social emancipation, something that defined the Russian Revolution and later, Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism. I hope listeners have as much fun listening as I did in conducting this interview. 

In defense of permanent revolution, our conference document that lays out this view in more detail, can be found here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/permrev

In defense of the Second and Fourth Comintern Congresses, https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/comintern 

Our propaganda on Iran and the task of Marxists: 

"Iran under attack: Marxists who failed the test" https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2025-iran-left

"Workers: Stand with Iran and Palestine!" https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2025-iran 

Anna debates Jan Norden of the Internationalist Group, on permanent revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxGhd5rwck

Debates with the International Bolshevik Tendency on the national question, which revolve around the themes Anna and I discuss, can be read here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/spart-letters/2

You can follow the press of the Trotskyist Group of Greece here: https://iclfi.org/grc, or follow them on X and Insta @toe_icl