Reclaiming Sartre
A review of Ian Birchall, Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Books, 2004), £36.50 Continue Reading
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Imperialism: just a phase we’re going through?
A review of Alex Callinicos, The New Mandarins of American Power (Polity Press, 2003), £13.99; Imperialism Now (Monthly Review, August 2003), £8; David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2003), £16.99; Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), The New Imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004 (Merlin, 2003), £14.95 Continue Reading
The state of the union
A review of Joseph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties: Seeds of Destruction (Penguin, 2003), £18.99 and Paul Krugman, The Great Unravelling: From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99. Continue Reading
Refounding further
Tom Behan interviews the national secretary of the Party of Communist Refoundation Continue Reading
The rise of capitalism
Capitalism is a peculiar form of class society. Like previous class societies it involves a minority section of society grabbing the surplus created by the toil of the rest of society. But there are important differences. Previous ruling classes simply… Continue Reading
Globalisation against development
Liberalisation, deregulation and the forms of ‘globalisation’ they lead to tend to be taken by academic economists and researchers somewhat too easily as parameters which are difficult, possibly even pointless, to challenge. When challenge does emerge, be it quite moderate… Continue Reading
The hijab, racism and the state
The start of the 2003 school year saw two young women, Alma and Lila, excluded from a secondary school in France for wearing the Muslim headscarf, or hijab. This new ‘headscarf affair’ has revived a debate going back 15 years… Continue Reading
China’s century?
For over ten years the US’s rulers have been obsessed with China’s threat to their domination of the world. Economically, politically and militarily China is a world power that the US cannot control and cannot ignore. Indeed, the Project for… Continue Reading
The Jubilee and the Apocalypse: a reply
In ‘The Jubilee and the Apocalypse’ (International Socialism 98), John Rose wrote a strong critique of my book Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome, AD 66-73.1 The debate is important for two reasons. First, it concerns a crucial stage… Continue Reading
All praise the market!
A review of Nigel Harris, The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalisation, the State and War (IB Tauris, 2003), £24.50 Continue Reading