Author: ISJ

Over the last decade the Marxists Internet Archive has become the most comprehensive online collection of left wing texts. Martin Empson spoke to some of the volunteers behind the project about their aims and methods. Tell us how the Marxists… Continue Reading →

The Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand passed away at the grand old age of 98 last September. He was arguably the greatest exponent of Indian writing in English, whose literary output was infused with a political commitment that conveyed the… Continue Reading →

This is an edited translation from the Spanish of a paper given by the Argentinian Marxist philosopher Néstor Kohan in Portugal in October. The original title was ‘The Theory of Commodity Fetishism and the Struggle for Hegemony in the Era… Continue Reading →

The issue of entering a bourgeois government first raised its head in the international socialist movement in the years 1899 to 1902. French society had been shaken in the 1890s by agitation by the anti-Semitic and monarchist far right centred… Continue Reading →

Uncertainty dominates our epoch… The slogan ‘Socialism or barbarism’ isn’t irrelevant today… Rifondazione has recently experienced good results in European and local elections…in a situation in which the attempt by the right to stabilise the Italian political system has blown… Continue Reading →

Should the far left be prepared to take seats in non-revolutionary governments? The revival of the struggle internationally has raised this question. In Brazil two years ago the election of Lula as president forced the different left groups inside the… Continue Reading →

From the outset of Gregor Gall’s critical examination of the Socialist Workers Party’s industrial perspective of the recent past, it is apparent that he both misrepresents and misunderstands what we have to say about the nature of class struggle in… Continue Reading →

Socialists recognise unions’ central role and workers’ collective power at the workplace in not only the socialist project but also in advancing workers’ economic and political interests, and the link between the two (revolution and reform). The argument presented here… Continue Reading →