On 26 September 2021, Wellred Books hosted the launch of Alan Woods’ The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective, with about 200 attendees present from across the world. Watch Alan Woods’ introduction and closing remarks at the launch event below. The best philosophical ideas of the past have laid the basis for the development of dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism: the only set of ideas capable of explaining the real situation in society, and offering a roadmap towards a better world.