A review of Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (Verso, 2006), £15.99 Soon there will be more people living in the city of Mumbai than in the continent of Australia. Like Mexico City or Seoul- Injon it is set to become… Continue Reading
A review of Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds), 100 years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (Pluto Press, 2006), £18.99 Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution was, as Michael Lowy writes in this volume, ‘one of the most astonishing political… Continue Reading
Spain, July 1936, has a double historical significance for the left internationally. There was Franco’s militarycoup which began the civil war and 40 years of fascist rule. And there were the counter-uprisings of workers,which overturned the coup in most of… Continue Reading
The origins of capitalism This is the transcript of the discussion which took place between Chris Harman and Robert Brenner at a school in London in November 2004 organised jointly by the journals International Socialism and Historical Materialism.1 Chris Harman… Continue Reading
A review of Lars T Lih, Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? in Context (Brill, Historical Materialism series, 2006), euro 1291 While the problem of ‘what to do’2 is one that resurfaces for socialists and radicals on an almost… Continue Reading
A review of Sam Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), £36.50, and Richard Gott, Cuba: A New History (Yale, Nota Bene series, 2005), £9.99 One side-effect of the current upsurge of struggle… Continue Reading
Put plainly, the US is moving steadily and solidly to the right. That poses a problem for Democrats, who have to learn to speak to the people of those red states if they are ever to hold power again. But… Continue Reading
Italy: an uncertain victory Danilo Corradi, Brune Seban and Barbara de Vivo are members of Sinistra Critica, an anticapitalist platform within Rifondazione Comunista. They spoke to International Socialism about Italy’s election and the new centre-left government. There have been big… Continue Reading
Germany’s strategy debate Volkhard Mosler, secretary of Frankfurt WASG and a leading figure in Linksruck, Christine Buchholz, a member of the national executive of WASG and a member of Linksruck and Maya Mosler, who was a delegate to WASG party… Continue Reading
A quite extraordinary movement Annick Coupé It was a quite extraordinary movement, which lasted two and a half months, from the first demonstration to the last mobilisation—extraordinary also in terms of the very high level of mobilisation among young people,… Continue Reading