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Month: April 2016
Day school: Marxism and Nature
A one-day conference hosted by International Socialism Thank you to all the speakers, chairs, contributors, stallholders and helpers who took part in this conference. Here is a photo of the opening session and videos of all the speakers Capitalism’s thirst… Continue Reading
This quarter’s selection
In an interview on the Jacobin website Egyptian Revolutionary Socialist Sameh Naguib recalls the events of the Egyptian revolution and counter-revolution. Naguib explains how the origins of the revolution were both political and economic and how mass strikes and movements… Continue Reading
Questioning failed growth in Africa
A review of Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (Zed Books, 2015), £14.99 Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong provides a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. Morton Jerven argues that, for most of the… Continue Reading
In the belly of the beast
A review of Christian Høgsbjerg, C L R James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014), £16.99 In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black… Continue Reading
Two books that swim against the tide
A review of Alistair Couper, Hance D Smith and Bruno Ciceri, Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea (Pluto Press, 2015), £19.99 and Stefano B Longo, Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark, The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries… Continue Reading
Emerging workers’ movements
A review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press, 2016), £15 Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced… Continue Reading
PostCapitalism: A reply to Pete Green
It is always a pleasure to see Pete Green’s name listed in the contents of International Socialism. I personally learnt a lot about Karl Marx’s theory of value from reading Pete’s early contributions to this journal and what he has… Continue Reading
Revolutionary workers’ movements and parliaments in Germany 1918-23: A reply to Tony Phillips
Tony Phillips provided a rather misleading account of my Marxism 2014 talk on Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils in the German Revolution1 in the last issue of International Socialism.2 Nevertheless Tony does point to an unresolved argument about workers’ councils and… Continue Reading
Some questions about the lost German Revolution
It is not surprising that Tony Phillips has made a vigorous defence of the “classic” Socialist Workers Party position on the 1918-1923 situation in Germany.1 The argument is central to the SWP’s historical analysis. In order to argue that Leninism… Continue Reading