One welcome by-product of the growth of the anti-capitalist movement since Seattle has been the international flowering of Marxist analysis in a variety of journals. In this new column we begain a regular survey of articles which readers will find useful. Some, although by no means all, are available on the web. Continue Reading
A review of Thomas C Patterson, Marx’s Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (Berg, 2004), £15.99 Continue Reading
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (Monthly Review, 2004), £12.99 Continue Reading
A review of Andreja Zivkovic and Dragan Plavsic (eds), The Balkan Socialist Tradition: Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871-1915 (Revolutionary History, vol 8, no 3, 2003), £12.95 Continue Reading
A review of Al Richardson (ed), Victor Serge, Collected Writings on Literature and Revolution (Francis Boutle, 2004), £12.99 Continue Reading
The materialist conception of history was once described by a notable practitioner, the late Edward Thompson, as ‘perhaps the strongest discipline deriving from the Marxist tradition’.2 Of all the different modes available to that discipline, biography is the least commonly… Continue Reading
At 4am on Monday the Electoral Commission announced the results; 4,991,483 (58.25percent) voted no and 3,576,517 (41.74percent) voted yes. It was obvious where the votes had come from, even before the results were announced. You could measure it by skin… Continue Reading
This article is an attempt to analyse the politics of the NGOs in Asia, using our experiences as socialists in Thailand as an example. Nearly 20 years have elapsed since the massive proliferation of NGOs in developing countries. The pre-1980s… Continue Reading
Sometimes the symbolism of events gives them an importance out of all proportion to the numbers of people directly involved in them. Such was the case with the protests outside the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation on 30… Continue Reading
A review of Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge, 2003), £9.99 Continue Reading