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Author: Camilla

The British Trump

Posted on 7th October 2019 by Camilla

In 1994, Boris Johnson returned to London after five years as the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Brussels. In his time there, he had earned a reputation for barefaced lying, making up stories, misquoting sources and generally rubbishing the European Union… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Tory party

Riders of the storm

Posted on 7th October 2019 by Camilla

According to legend, in the balmy days before the First World War the Times once carried the headline: “Fog on Channel, Continent Isolated.” Now the fog that pervades the Brexit process leaves Britain isolated. This issue of International Socialism appears… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, Climate change, Extinction Rebellion

Zur Verteidigung des Parteiaufbaus

Posted on 30th July 2019 by Camilla

International Socialism 163 http://isj.org.uk/in-defence-of-party-building/ Sommer 2019, aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning *** John Molyneux: “Die Genossen aus Southampton mögen diese Sache mit dem Parteiaufbau nicht so sehr.” Tony Cliff: “Ich mag das auch nicht, es ist schrecklich. Leider ist… Continue Reading →

Article Party building

Cuba, the Pink Tide and revolution in Latin America

Posted on 16th July 2019 by Camilla

In October 2019 International Socialism organised a series of events on Cuba and Latin America in London (26 October), Manchester (27 October) and Glasgow (29 October). Speakers included: Frank Garcia Hernandez: an academic and critical Marxist speaker from Cuba. Claudia… Continue Reading →

Conferences & day schools Cuba, Latin America, Venezuela

This quarter’s selection

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

The online journal Organizing Work includes a review by Marianne Garneau of The Feminism of the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser. Garneau centres on the concept of a “women’s strike” heavily promoted by the… Continue Reading →

Pick of the quarter

Revolutionary psychology

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Carl Ratner and Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva (eds), Vygotsky and Marx: Toward a Marxist Psychology (Routledge, 2017), £33.99 Lev Vygotsky was a brilliant psychologist and educationalist who played several important roles in advising and representing the new… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Lev Vygotsky, Mental distress, Psychology

German workers get that sinking feeling

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Oliver Nachtwey, Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Oliver Nachtwey’s book sets out to examine the truth of the central ­ideological myths of the German economy. First, that Germany is… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, Germany

Striking continuity amid great change

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

Along with Mark O’Brien and several other authors in this journal, I am ­anxious to understand what lay behind the dramatic drop in UK strike activity from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and the extremely low level ever… Continue Reading →

Feedback Strikes, Trade unions

Socialists and the Leave vote—a (brief) reply to Sean Leahy

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

It is encouraging that Sean Leahy has taken up the challenge of defending the Socialist Workers Party’s line on Brexit after my essay in this journal.1 It means we are now openly debating the defining issue of our age. Sound… Continue Reading →

Feedback Brexit

Dollar, debt and the end of the American dream

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Penguin, 2019), £12.99 I won’t say kowtow…but at least be nice to the countries that lend you money—Gao Xiqing, Head of the Chinese Sovereign Wealth… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

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New Resources

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Tony Phillips’s “What can we learn from Kautsky today?” translated into German
Judy Cox’s “How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Joseph Choonara’s “Socialism in a time of pandemics” translated into German – thanks to David Albrich
Now online: Yuri Prasad and Esme Choonara’s article “What’s wrong with privilege theory?” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: John Molyneux’s article “In Defence of Party Building” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Sheila McGregor’s article on social reproduction theory has now been translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Brazil: how big a defeat? Interview with Valério Arcary
Now online: Rosemarie Nünning on the history of abortion law in Germany – Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code
New to our translations page: Lise Vogel und die Politik der Frauenbefreiung (Nicola Ginsburgh on Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation in German)
Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.
Online only “How to stop the tanks” by Ron Margulies on the attempted coup in Turkey
Egyptian Revolution timeline
International Socialism has covered events in Egypt from the strike waves that led up to the revolution, the events of 2011 themselves and the situation since: here is a timeline of key articles
Now online, Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) writing in International Socialism in 1987
Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
Videos of the International Socialism conference on Marxism and nature featuring Ted Benton and Ian Angus
Videos and transcript of the International Socialism debate on Syriza and Socialist Strategy with Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos
Online only: Vincent Sung analyses the roots of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests here
Online only: Bob Light remembers the 1974-5 Portuguese revolution
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Work, Class and Resistance’ with Jane Hardy, Kevin Doogan, Lucia Pradella and Jim Wolfreys
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others
Video: International Socialism seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander
“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser
Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy
Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy
Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)
The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)
A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)
Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)
Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)
The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)
Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)
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