The winter 2018 issue of US based magazine Jacobin “The Health of Nations” includes an interview with Bernie Sanders, whose campaign for the Democratic Party nomination was supported by its editor Bhaskar Sunkara. In the short interview Sanders discusses his… Continue Reading
A review of Chris Kaspar de Ploeg, Ukraine in the Crossfire (Clarity Press, 2017), £19.19 Since the unrest of 2014—the Maidan protests, the outbreak of separatist war in Donbass, the annexation of Crimea and the MH17 plane crash—it seems Ukraine… Continue Reading
A review of Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds (Icon Books, 2018), £8.99 It’s not every day that you pick up a serious work about sex, gender and hormones to find it begins with a… Continue Reading
Making sense of the continuing low level of strike activity in the UK takes on greater urgency with the publication of provisional figures for 2017. These show record lows—by some margin—for two of the three main indicators: number of strikes… Continue Reading
1968—a year, but also a mood, an expectation, a world bursting with a promise of revolutionary possibility: a shimmering slice of historical time that precedes 1968 and outlasts it. Commemorating its 50th anniversary properly this year, 2018, must itself be… Continue Reading
The pamphlet Education, Capitalism and the Student Revolt, chapters one and four of which are reproduced here, was written by Chris Harman, Richard Kuper, Dave Clark, Andrew Sayers and Martin Shaw, five student members of the International Socialism group (forerunner… Continue Reading
Women won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched… Continue Reading
It is now a full decade since the financial turmoil that heralded the beginning of the “long depression”.1 On a global scale, the recession that developed in the wake of the collapse of the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers in… Continue Reading
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sketched what has come to be known as the gravedigger thesis, widely believed to propose that the objective conditions of capitalism would inevitably produce a revolutionary working class which would overthrow… Continue Reading
Marx’s return Karl Marx’s reputation has changed significantly in the 35 years since the centenary of his death in 1983. I wrote The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx to mark that anniversary against the background of the huge explosion of… Continue Reading