International Socialism
Menu Close
  • Latest issue
  • Back issues
  • Links
  • Resources
  • Translations
  • Subscribe
  • About

Author: Camilla

Let’s all join the army

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army (Verso, 2016), £16.99 The idea of “utopia” has been present in Fredric Jameson’s writing more or less from the beginning. In a capitalism focused on “efficiency”… Continue Reading →

Book reviews

Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill/Haymarket, 2016), £21.99 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Environment

Why is capitalism addicted to fossil fuels?

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016), £20 One of the biggest challenges that humanity faces is how to stop global warming. It is clear that if… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, fossil fuels

All power to the factory councils?

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A contribution at the excellent 2016 Marxism Festival meeting on the German Revolution, referenced by Tony Phillips in his latest article in this journal,1 asked us to identify the real difference between us. Tony, in that same article, by allowing… Continue Reading →

Feedback German Revolution

Once more on strikes: a reply to critics

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

When I wrote “Why Are There So Few Strikes?”1 I expected that it would generate some discussion. I was not prepared, though, for the huge number of words and length of time taken up by responses. In addition to numerous… Continue Reading →

Feedback Strikes, the working class

Why did Britain vote Leave? A Scottish addendum

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

The previous issue of International Socialism included an excellent analysis of the Brexit vote by Charlie Kimber.1 Charlie argued that the vote to leave the European Union was a “bitter blow to the establishment”, that social class was a major… Continue Reading →

Feedback Brexit, Scotland

Ecology and value theory

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), £19.99 Jason W Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life sets itself the challenge of locating an account of capitalist… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Environment

Understanding the counter-revolution

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016), £12.99 Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese socialist living in Europe and a prominent commentator on Middle Eastern politics. His recent book Morbid Symptoms is meant to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Arab spring, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria

The Labour Party,
anti-Semitism and Zionism

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

In June and July 1917, the then secretary of the Labour Party Arthur Henderson visited revolutionary Russia on behalf of Lloyd George’s coalition government. He returned extremely disturbed by what he had seen. The radicalism of the Russian working class… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Zionism

Trotsky on the Labour Party

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

“In passing across a narrow and unreliable bridge, a small but reliable prop may prove one’s salvation. But woe to him who clutches at a rotten prop that crumbles at a touch—for, in that case, a plunge into the abyss… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Leon Trotsky

Post navigation

Older Articles
Newer Articles
Follow us on Instagram



Tags

1968 Africa Anti-racism Arab revolution Brexit China Class Climate change Donald Trump Ecology Economics Education Egypt Environment European Union Fascism France Germany Greece imperialism Karl Marx Labour Party Leon Trotsky Middle East Palestine political economy Racism Reformism Revolution Russian Revolution Scotland Strikes Syria The Economic Crisis the far right The United States the working class Tories Trade unions Turkey United States USA women's liberation Women's oppression Working class
© 2025 International Socialism. (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original.