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Month: July 2022

Pick of the quarter

Posted on 4th July 2022 by International Socialism

As noted in our analysis piece, New Left Review is one of the few socialist journals that shares a similar outlook to International Socialism on the conflict in Ukraine. This is reflected in its excellent double issue, which contains articles… Continue Reading →

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Gender: the far right’s new political battleground

Posted on 4th July 2022 by International Socialism

A review of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (Routledge, 2021), £120 The need to understand how and why the populist far right has been so successful has never been more urgent. The victories for… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, the far right, transgender liberation, women's liberation

Linking class, imperialism and climate: is there an “imperial mode of living”?

Posted on 4th July 2022 by International Socialism

A review of The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism, Ulrich Brand and Marcus Wissen (Verso, 2021), £16.99 Over the past decade, Marxists have published many valuable works on capitalism and ecology.1 Yet, there… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Climate change, consumerism, Ecology, imperialism

Notes for a political economy of Bolsonarism: Brazilian specificities of the global far right

Posted on 3rd July 2022 by International Socialism

On 2 October 2022, the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections will be held, with a second round scheduled for 30 October 2022.1 At the time of writing, the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, has 27 percent of votes, according to… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Latin America

Knowing their worth: capitalism, schools and exams

Posted on 2nd July 2022 by International Socialism

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the system of school examinations into sharp focus.1 The examination season for A levels and GCSEs was cancelled over two consecutive summers in 2020 and 2021.2 In both years, examinations were replaced by teacher-assessed grades—but… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Education, exams, school testing, schools

Was Zero Covid ever feasible? How capitalism deals with a pandemic

Posted on 2nd July 2022 by International Socialism

Two years have passed since John Parrington wrote in this journal that “if governments across the world had taken prompt action to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks, much of the current crisis could have been avoided. Instead,… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised coronavirus, Health, health and social care
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