This article first appeared in International Socialism 62, spring 1994. Among many people on the left today the Marxist emphasis on the centrality of class and class struggle—as key both to understanding and to transforming society—is widely disparaged. Many who… Continue Reading
This article was originally published in International Socialism Journal 42, London, Spring 1989 Introduction Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. Engels, whatever the… Continue Reading
This article first appeared in International Socialism issue 4 (Spring 1979) under the title: A ‘New’ Reformism?—A Critique of the Political Theory of Nicos Poulantzas. Today, in the context of a radicalising anticapitalist movement, many old ideas are returning in… Continue Reading
This article appeared in the International Discussion Bulletin of the British SWP 30 years ago. At that time some of the biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed… Continue Reading
As a former pupil of Stan Newens in Hackney back in the 1960s, I now know why he gave me such good marks for a talk I gave on the Russian Revolution, despite the mess that I made of it.… Continue Reading
Political explosions are so frequent in Latin America these days that it is sometimes hard to keep up with them. The most surprising ones last year were in Mexico—first with the mass demonstrations in Mexico City against the rigging of… Continue Reading
A review of Bill Dunn, Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour (Palgrave, 2004), £45 Bill Dunn, whose edited collection on Trotsky was recently reviewed on these pages, has produced an excellent critique of the assumption, common across parts of… Continue Reading
A review of John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance (Routledge, 2006), £14.99 Imperialism has entered the public political discourse over the last five years in a way which would have seemed highly improbable for most of the preceding generation or more.… Continue Reading
A review of Jonathan I Israel, Enlightenment Contested (Oxford, 2006), £30 This is a long (871 pages of text), often repetitive, occasionally confusing, and very important book. It continues the challenge to the conventional view of the Enlightenment made by… Continue Reading
A review of Scott Mann, Heart of a Heartless World: Religion as Ideology (Black Rose Books, 1999), £13.99 How should socialists relate to social movements whose aims are informed by religious ideas? A moment’s consideration of this problem is enough… Continue Reading