In January 2005, following the torture and murder of the Iraqi trade unionist Hadi Saleh, ‘Labour Friends of Iraq’ issued an open letter demanding the Stop the War Coalition condemn the murder (which it already had1), and drop its support… Continue Reading
‘Mission accomplished’ has turned mission bust…the US is facing defeat in Iraq… The longer the US military occupation continues, the already declining US influence in the Middle East will give way to regional extremism and instability—Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of US… Continue Reading
by Chris Harman (First published in International Socialism journal, issue 2:33, Autumn 1986.) ONE OF THE MYTHS feeding the policies of Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock and his supporters has been that of the ‘decline’ of the working class, or… Continue Reading
by AlexCallinicos (First published in International Socialism journal, 2:20 Summer 1983.) A FUNDAMENTAL feature of Marxism is an understanding of politics in the light of the class struggle. Marx and Engels wrote in 1879: “For almost forty years we have… Continue Reading
From the South Korean socialist organisation, All Together On October 9, North Korea announced that it had just conducted a nuclear test. The test came just six days after an official statement by the Foreign Ministry that NK would proceed… Continue Reading
I am grateful for Chris Harman’s positive review of my book The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Internatioanl Socialism 111). Nevertheless, I would like to address an issue that Chris mentioned almost in passing but which I feel requires… Continue Reading
New Left Review continues to amaze those of us who got put off it by the academic obscurantism of many of its articles in the mid-1990s. The July-August issue contained at least three articles well worth anyone reading. R Taggart… Continue Reading
A review of Ali Rahnema (ed), Pioneers of the Islamic Revival (Zed books, 2006), £18.95 The great threat to civilisation is, according to George W Bush, ‘Islamofascism’. Many liberals who do not agree with Bush on much else and even… Continue Reading
A review of Matthew Beaumont, Utopia Ltd: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (Brill, 2005), €58 This book is a remarkable contribution to a materialist history of utopias in the form of a study of English utopian novels of… Continue Reading
A review of Dave Renton, When We Touched the Sky: the Anti-Nazi League, 1977-1981 (New Clarion Press, 2006), £13.95 Over three years one organisation distributed 9 million leaflets, sold 750,000 badges, had 250 branches with 50,000 members, held a conference… Continue Reading