Nadje Al–Ali, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (Zed Books, 2007), £14.99 The history of Iraq since 1948 has been recounted many times, usually as a dreary sequence of repressive regimes: monarchy, revolution, dictatorship, occupation. Nadje Al-Ali… Continue Reading
At the beginning of the film 28 Weeks Later Robert Carlyle’s character, Don, is holed up in a cottage with his wife and some other strangers, trying to survive as the Rage virus sweeps the UK, turning people into zombie-like… Continue Reading
For those who have followed this journal over the years, it is hardly necessary to explain the importance to Marxism of the study of the phenomena called “bourgeois revolutions”.1 Among the contributors to the journal can be found some outstanding… Continue Reading
“Another World Is Possible!” announces a placard held by a demonstrator on an unspecified global justice movement protest. The photograph is the background graphic of an advert. Above it the Shell logo. The advert is for a conference sponsored by… Continue Reading
Mike Gonzalez has written on Venezuela in this journal and elsewhere. Following his recent visit he answered questions from International Socialism about the latest developments We hear a lot about a “mass movement” in Venezuela. What were your impressions of… Continue Reading
It may not be an accident that Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957), perhaps the greatest archaeologist of the 20th century, committed suicide within a year of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.1 For Childe was not just a leading academic, prehistorian and… Continue Reading
Stefan Bornost, editor of the magazine marx21, spoke to International Socialism about the growth of German’s new left wing party The rise of a new force, Die Linke (The Left), is causing political earthquakes in Germany. Die Linke was founded… Continue Reading
Is the Cold War returning? Relations between Russia and the West now are at their lowest point since the mid-1980s, and some in the West are happy to interpret this as an impending return to the days of the Cold… Continue Reading
This Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture was delivered in London, November 2006. The prize was awarded for Kevin Murphy’s book, Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory Ten years ago1 Eric Hobsbawm presented his Deutscher… Continue Reading
Sameh Naguib, an Egyptian socialist, spoke to International Socialism about the current strike movement and its political backdrop, including the role of the million-strong Muslim Brotherhood Egypt was gripped by a wave of strikes over the summer. How did this… Continue Reading