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
This is a slightly edited version of an article by one of Argentina’s best known Marxist economists circulated internationally in Spanish earlier this year. Its original title was ‘The centre left, nationalism and socialism’.1 It was written before the most… Continue Reading
Exclusive to the International Socialism website: Gavin Capps updates his article looking at Gordon Brown’s pronouncements following the meeting of the G7 finance ministers Continue Reading
Pick of the quarter Pride of place this quarter must go to the devastating critique by Vivek Chibber (whose book, Locked in Place, John Game has reviewed in this issue of IS) of Niall Ferguson’s much-praised glorification of the British… Continue Reading
A comment on the experience of the Alliance Party in New Zealand Continue Reading
A review of Isaac Ilyich Rubin, A History of Economic Thought (Bertram), £19.99 Continue Reading
Supermarkets are hugely influential in 21st century corporate globalisation and capital accumulation. Wal-Mart (which owns Asda) is the world’s biggest corporation, and the British multinational Tesco is one of Britain’s biggest companies, worth around £40 billion in 2002. During the… Continue Reading