The self conscious critic
A review of Terry Eagleton, After Theory (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99 Continue Reading
Author: ISJ
In the middle way
A review of Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002), £25 Continue Reading
The politics of food
Food has become one of the most important political questions addressed by the anti-capitalist movement. The movement’s protests placed agricultural questions at the WTO conferences, in Seattle in 1999 and again in Cancun in 2003, at the centre of the… Continue Reading
Women’s liberation today
Women are more visible than they have ever been in history. They perform much of the paid labour of the world and the majority of the unpaid labour. Women work the majority of total hours in the world, but work… Continue Reading
New boom or new bubble?
New Left Review 25 Jan Feb 2004 Continue Reading
Towards the Precipice
Robert Brenner on the crisis in the US economy
from the London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 3 dated 6 February 2003 Robert Brenner
England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Development
From The Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 2, May 2002 Continue Reading
Asiatic, Tributary or Absolutist?
A Comment on Chris Harman’s The rise of Capitalism
Pick of the quarter
One welcome by-product of the growth of the anti-capitalist movement since Seattle has been the international flowering of Marxist analysis in a variety of journals. In this new column we begain a regular survey of articles which readers will find useful. Some, although by no means all, are available on the web. Continue Reading
Digging deeper
A review of Thomas C Patterson, Marx’s Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (Berg, 2004), £15.99 Continue Reading