Author: ISJ

Lots of small incidents have already occurred. There were lots of little incidents [involving worker protests] last year. Whenever a dynasty is ending it is like this. You can put down 99 out of 100 disturbances, but if you don’t… Continue Reading →

Two terrible threats define the 21st century. One is imperialist war and all that follows in its bloody train. The other is the accelerating threat of catastrophic climate change. Few people today doubt the scale of the climate change threat… Continue Reading →

The ‘no’ vote in the French and Dutch refendums. The loss of a million votes by New Labour in Britain’s election. The defeat of Germany’s social democrats in the state election in the Ruhr. One simple fact emerges from them… Continue Reading →

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former finance minister in Lionel Jospin’s ‘plural left’ government, no doubt spoke for most of the Socialist party leadership when he remarked in January 2005 that, ‘This referendum is bloody stupid. We were bloody stupid enough to ask… Continue Reading →

When is a revolution not a revolution? That is the question commentators have been asking following a wave of regime changes that has zigzagged its way progressively eastwards over the last five years. After Slobodan Milosevic’s overthrow in Serbia in… Continue Reading →

This year’s centenary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre will be an ambiguous affair.1 In France, and even in Britain, there will be academic conferences and articles in the more intellectually inclined papers and magazines. But enthusiasm will be distinctly… Continue Reading →