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Issue 138

Analysis

Economic blues

Alex Callinicos

Imperialism and instability in East Asia today

Ha-young Kim

The class struggles in Europe

Joseph Choonara

From mobilisation to resistance: Portugal’s struggle against austerity

Catarina Príncipe

Marxism and women’s oppression today

Sheila McGregor

Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder revisited

John Rose

Two in one?

Leandros Bolaris

Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism

Henry Bernstein

Feedback

Greece, politics and Marxist strategy

Thanasis Kampagiannis

Characterising the period or caricaturing capitalism? A reply to Nigel Harris

Adrian Budd

Being right is not enough: Some thoughts on Paul Levi

Ian Birchall

Book reviews

Beyond the western world

Ben Selwyn

Is bad Pharma just bad science?

Sophie Williams

Bread and circuses

Nick Evans

Lessons from Botswana

Andy Wynne

Theory of a black planet

Christian Høgsbjerg

Cultural revelations

Sally Kincaid

Pick of the quarter

This quarter's selection

Cover of issue 138

New Resources on this website:

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Videos from the ISJ event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others

Videos from a discussion of the crisis and the left in Europe with Charlie Kimber and Giorgos Pittas

Videos from the ISJ conference on ‘Crisis, Class and Resistance’ with Robin Blackburn, Alex Callinicos, Guy Standing and others

Why the Earth Summit Failed by David Treece – originally published in ISJ 56

Video: ISJ seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander

“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser

Video: Seminar on ‘Racism in Britain today’ with Richard Seymour”

Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy

Continuing crisis in Thailand

A report on the presidential election in Cyprus

Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy

Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

A report on Turkey’s recent elections

New book on Thailand’s coup

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)

The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)

A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)

Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)

Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)

The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)

Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)

The changing working class (Alex Callinicos and Chris Harman)

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