Dieser Aufsatz erschien zuerst in: International Socialism 135, Sommer 2012, London http://isj.org.uk/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-jewish-labour-bund/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning und David Paenson. Die Geschichte des jüdischen Bunds, mit vollem Namen Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland,1 ist voller… Continue Reading
Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 169—http://isj.org.uk/how-we-smashed-golden-dawn/. Aus dem Englischen von Angelo Kumnenis. Am 7. Oktober, nach einem über fünfjährigen Prozess, befand ein griechisches Gericht die Führung der Goldenen Morgenröte für schuldig, eine kriminelle Organisation gebildet und geführt zu… Continue Reading
One of the more depressing aspects of Pick of the Quarter in recent times has been the necessity to mark the passing of a number of fine Marxist authors. That is particularly true of the generation of socialists who were… Continue Reading
A review of Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn and Patrick Anderson (eds), Lenin150 (Samizdat), Daraja Press (2021), £27. This book is a nicely designed patchwork of essays—a “birthday celebration” marking the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. Although it has a bit of… Continue Reading
A review of Mark Jay and Philip Conklin, A People’s History of Detroit, Duke University Press (2020), £20.99. On 25 July 1967, the crew of a United States tank mistook someone standing at an apartment window and lighting a cigarette… Continue Reading
A review of John Molyneux, The Dialectics of Art, Haymarket (2020), £17.99 This complex yet vivid and accessible book is an eagerly awaited contribution to debates about the social meaning and revolutionary possibilities of art. It represents a significant advance… Continue Reading
A review of Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, Random House (2020), £18.99. Owen Jones, This Land: The Story of a Movement, Allen Lane (2020), £20. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, Searching… Continue Reading
The following article by the French author Claude Serfati first appeared online on the A l’encontre website in December 2020.1 It deals with two laws that were moving through the French legislature as International Socialism went to press. The first,… Continue Reading
The question of how to characterise the societies that belonged to the Eastern Bloc between 1948 and 1989—Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia—has been contentious since they emerged after the Second World War.1 This remains the… Continue Reading
In the past two decades, China has emerged as the major challenger to the United States’s leading position in the global economy and, to a lesser extent, as the world’s foremost military power. Compared to the global reach of the… Continue Reading