Salgın hastalıkları doğanın, insan toplumuna yönelik öngörülemez, yıkıcı bir saldırısı olarak görmek cazip gelebilir.1 Ancak Koronavirüs Salgını 2019’un (Covid-19) patlak vermesi hiç de “doğal” bir olgu değildir. Epidemiler ve pandemiler; virüslerin mutasyonu, bir konaktan diğerine geçişi ve canlı organizmalar üzerindeki… Continue Reading
The editors of International Socialism were saddened to hear of the death of Neil Davidson in May. Neil was a member of our editorial board from 2005 to 2013. He was a sharp Marxist thinker, who produced an extraordinary body… Continue Reading
A review of Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Verso (2020), £20. “Maritime trade, logistics and hydrocarbon transport,” Laleh Khalili argues in this detailed and enjoyable book, “are the clearest distillation of… Continue Reading
A review of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart: How The World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundations for Socialism, Verso (2019), £9.99, and Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Verso (2019), £16.99. In The People’s… Continue Reading
A review of David Wearing, AngloArabia, Wiley (2018), £15.99. It is now 50 years since Britain formally ended its colonial rule in the Persian Gulf. However, David Wearing’s AngloArabia shows that the relationship between the British state and the Gulf… Continue Reading
A review of Anonymous, A Warning, Little, Brown (2019), £14.99, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, Bloomsbury (2020), £20. No president of the United States has had more written about… Continue Reading
A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading
Karl Kautsky was known as the Pope of Marxism in the early 20th century, but until recently he appeared to have been almost forgotten.1 He was the leading theorist of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a nominally Marxist mass… Continue Reading
The World Trade Organisation has stated that the Covid-19 pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetime.1 As with any deep crisis, the effects will weigh heaviest on the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in the Global South.… Continue Reading
Bernie Sanders’s two presidential election campaigns, in tandem with the resurgence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), have captured political attention in the United States and beyond. The excitement inspired by the growth of this new left movement in… Continue Reading