“Sovereignty, independence and new international relations are the key demands of our times and represent the main trend of the present epoch, despite the obstruction and last-ditch resistance of the imperialist and hegemonic forces,” states Keith Bennett in a speech to an international seminar on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

A delegation of the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently visited London, and on 1 September, a meeting was held between the delegation and the Secretary of the Institute’s Xi Jinping Study Group.

“Since fairly early in the past century, … the most advanced revolutionary theory largely emanates from the Global South”, Keith Bennett pointed out, citing the work of Mao Zedong, Amilcar Cabral, Xi Jinping, and others, at the launch of a book published by Iskra Press by the Iraqi communist Ibrahim Allawi at the Marx Memorial library on 21 August 2024.