Refounding further
Tom Behan interviews the national secretary of the Party of Communist Refoundation Continue Reading
Month: November 2004
The rise of capitalism
Capitalism is a peculiar form of class society. Like previous class societies it involves a minority section of society grabbing the surplus created by the toil of the rest of society. But there are important differences. Previous ruling classes simply… Continue Reading
Globalisation against development
Liberalisation, deregulation and the forms of ‘globalisation’ they lead to tend to be taken by academic economists and researchers somewhat too easily as parameters which are difficult, possibly even pointless, to challenge. When challenge does emerge, be it quite moderate… Continue Reading
The hijab, racism and the state
The start of the 2003 school year saw two young women, Alma and Lila, excluded from a secondary school in France for wearing the Muslim headscarf, or hijab. This new ‘headscarf affair’ has revived a debate going back 15 years… Continue Reading
China’s century?
For over ten years the US’s rulers have been obsessed with China’s threat to their domination of the world. Economically, politically and militarily China is a world power that the US cannot control and cannot ignore. Indeed, the Project for… Continue Reading
The Jubilee and the Apocalypse: a reply
In ‘The Jubilee and the Apocalypse’ (International Socialism 98), John Rose wrote a strong critique of my book Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome, AD 66-73.1 The debate is important for two reasons. First, it concerns a crucial stage… Continue Reading
All praise the market!
A review of Nigel Harris, The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalisation, the State and War (IB Tauris, 2003), £24.50 Continue Reading
The self conscious critic
A review of Terry Eagleton, After Theory (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99 Continue Reading
In the middle way
A review of Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002), £25 Continue Reading
The politics of food
Food has become one of the most important political questions addressed by the anti-capitalist movement. The movement’s protests placed agricultural questions at the WTO conferences, in Seattle in 1999 and again in Cancun in 2003, at the centre of the… Continue Reading