The day after Iraqis went to the polls, George Bush and Tony Blair declared that Iraq had ‘turned the corner’. Pro-war commentators were quick to demand that the anti-war camp apologise for opposing the war and some who had been… Continue Reading
The supporters of US imperialism were crowing as we began to put this journal to press early in March. By the time we put the final touches to it their crowing looked increasingly misplaced. They claimed that things were at… Continue Reading
A reply to In the middle way, by Colin Barker
A strategic project of the Argentine government of Nestor Kirchner is “the reconstruction of the national capitalism”. It naturally gets the approval of the financiers and industrialists of the country. But many “progressive” Argentine intellectuals also support this objective. They… Continue Reading
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More than 180 people attended a day school organised jointly by International Socialism and the journal Historical Materialism in London last November. Entitled, Capitalism: Where it came from and where it’s going , it centred around three sets of discussions… Continue Reading
A review of Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search for the New Ummah (Hurst, 2004), £16.95; Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (Hurst, 2004), £14.95; Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800 (Hurst, 2004), £35 Continue Reading
A review of John Saville, Memoirs from the Left (Merlin Press, 2003), £14.95 Continue Reading
A review of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Penguin, 2004), £19.99
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A review of Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (Simon and Schuster, 2004), £16.99 Continue Reading