Italy’s wave of mobilisation and general strikes for Palestine in September and October 2025 was unprecedented. Millions of workers and young people stopped work, blocking roads, railways and ports across the country to demand an end to the state of… Continue Reading
Sexism is on the rise.1 “Misogyny is 2025’s Biggest Trend”, claimed Glamour.2 “Misogyny has reached ‘epidemic scale’ among young people, education chiefs say”, the Independent reported.3 Powerful currents within the global far right glorify and promote violence against women. Others… Continue Reading
A few months after Hitler took power in Germany, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky described the fevered atmosphere: “The multiplicity of parties, the icy fever of elections, the interminable changes of ministries aggravated the social crisis by creating a kaleidoscope… Continue Reading
The threat of Reform UK has crystallised since the 2024 general election.1 In May 2025, the party won 677 seats and 31 percent of the vote in local elections, taking control of ten councils and two mayoral seats. Andrea Jenkyns,… Continue Reading
In previous issues of International Socialism, we have covered in some detail events in Syria—the initial uprising in 2011, the interventions of rival imperialisms and regional sub-imperialisms, the fracturing of Syrian politics, the ultimate overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime… Continue Reading
Capitalism and war have always been profoundly connected. Max Weber noted the important role that financing the wars of European states played in the development of early modern capitalism.1 The bond remains as tight as ever today. As the illusions… Continue Reading
The advance of the far right internationally has disturbing echoes of interwar Europe.1 Just before Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) came to power in 1933, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote: Any serious analysis of… Continue Reading
We live in dangerous, disorientating times.1 The world was already a terrifying enough place before Donald Trump returned to the White House in early 2025: with Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a human meat grinder in Ukraine and sabre rattling between… Continue Reading
Turkish politics have been in turmoil recently. Earlier this year, there were mass street protests against the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Then came the announcement that the country’s main Kurdish militant group would lay down its arms. Şenol Karakaş from… Continue Reading
A review of Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom by Philip Marfleet (Bookmarks, 2025), £10 Publication of Philip Marfleet’s Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom comes in the context of almost two years of genocide enacted against the… Continue Reading