This is an edited translation from the Spanish of a paper given by the Argentinian Marxist philosopher Néstor Kohan in Portugal in October. The original title was ‘The Theory of Commodity Fetishism and the Struggle for Hegemony in the Era… Continue Reading
The issue of entering a bourgeois government first raised its head in the international socialist movement in the years 1899 to 1902. French society had been shaken in the 1890s by agitation by the anti-Semitic and monarchist far right centred… Continue Reading
Uncertainty dominates our epoch… The slogan ‘Socialism or barbarism’ isn’t irrelevant today… Rifondazione has recently experienced good results in European and local elections…in a situation in which the attempt by the right to stabilise the Italian political system has blown… Continue Reading
Should the far left be prepared to take seats in non-revolutionary governments? The revival of the struggle internationally has raised this question. In Brazil two years ago the election of Lula as president forced the different left groups inside the… Continue Reading
From the outset of Gregor Gall’s critical examination of the Socialist Workers Party’s industrial perspective of the recent past, it is apparent that he both misrepresents and misunderstands what we have to say about the nature of class struggle in… Continue Reading
Socialists recognise unions’ central role and workers’ collective power at the workplace in not only the socialist project but also in advancing workers’ economic and political interests, and the link between the two (revolution and reform). The argument presented here… Continue Reading
The events of 1905 in Russia announced the return of revolution to Europe nearly 35 years after the defeat of the Paris Commune. In the intervening period mass socialist organisations—usually calling themselves ‘social democratic’ —had emerged and developed in some… Continue Reading
Most people in the West, including those of the far left, still have an image of Iran as a theocratic state, dominated by medieval mullahs. What is the reality today? To answer this question it is essential to grasp the… Continue Reading
In early November 2004 US troops destroyed the city of Fallujah. Countless civilians and an untold number of resistance fighters perished in the assault. The city of mosques lay in ruins, but the rubble also buried US and British plans… Continue Reading