During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely… Continue Reading
Syrian socialist Ghayath Naisse, a member of the Revolutionary Left Current, spoke to Simon Assaf about the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.1 SA: Let’s start with imperialism. What do… Continue Reading
The election of Donald J Trump as President of the United States of America has rightly been greeted with disgust by many around the world. After a lengthy election season in which the two main parties were led by two… Continue Reading
Abortion has rarely been out of the headlines in 2016. Women have been leading an unprecedented surge of resistance to attacks on already limited rights to access to abortion. Mass protests at both ends of Europe, on its western shores… Continue Reading
The defeat of the third way The philosopher Jacques Derrida once wrote an essay called “Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy”.1 That tone has, since 8 November, migrated into everyday political discussion. For the liberal left, Donald Trump’s… Continue Reading
Shortly before our last issue appeared in early October, Nick Howard died. He had just turned 83. A longstanding and much loved member of the Socialist Workers Party in Sheffield, Nick was involved in International Socialism from the start. He… Continue Reading
October’s Science and Society (volume 80, number 4) is a special issue edited by Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos entitled “Crises and Transformation of Capitalism: Marx’s Investigations and Contemporary Analysis”. Their reasons for revisiting Marx’s writings on crises are twofold:… Continue Reading
A review of Celia Hughes, Young Lives on the Left: Sixties Activism and the Liberation of the Self (Manchester University Press, 2015), £70 For those who argue that women and men make history, it makes sense to assess the 1968… Continue Reading
A review of John Smith, Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £18.99 The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he… Continue Reading
A review of Shourideh C Molavi, Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel (Haymarket, 2014), £20 Israel defines itself as a Jewish State although many of its citizens are not Jewish. It is the state of all Jews worldwide rather… Continue Reading