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Marxist pedagogy has a vital role to play in current social movement development. This work situates the international anti-globalisation movement as a modern anchor from which to re-contextualize many of the primary arguments of the 'Communist Manifesto'. It is a re-writing of the 'Manifesto' for 2005. With temporal examples, relevant to modern materialist concerns in both the minority and majority worlds, the arguments of the 'Manifesto' are given diverse context in relation to history, politics and education. In order for the proletariat to organise across its own internal lines, there must be a recognition of economic, sexual, gender and racial differentiation---within the proletariat. In situating the principles of the 'Manifesto' in today's global anticapitalist movement, this work provides an inclusive framework for analysis that comfortably devotes analytical time and space to a diversity of material realities---avoiding a hierarchy of oppressions.