A major theme of analyses in this journal in recent years has been the erosion of the forces and institutions lending a degree of stability and coherence to global capitalism.1 This includes a widespread rejection of mainstream politicians and parties… Continue Reading
Politics, Lenin once observed, “is a concentrated expression of economics”.1 If so, perhaps one way to think about the war launched by Israel and the United States against Iran in February 2026 is as “concentrated politics”—a double or triple-strength distillation… Continue Reading
I last spoke to Muzan Alneel on 28 March. WhatsApp wasn’t working properly, so it had to be Signal. Her voice was a little tinny, but clear. The conflict that had enveloped her place of exile following Donald Trump and… Continue Reading
The Review of Radical Political Economics often publishes articles of interest to Marxists. One recent piece, by Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, “Monopoly or competition? Unravelling the Amazon paradox” (https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134261415639) is well worth a look for those able to access… Continue Reading
A review of Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper (Basic Books, 2025), £14.99 The year 2025 marked the commemoration of the Peasants’ War. Five hundred years ago, in 1524-5, a huge uprising swept across… Continue Reading
A review ofA L Morton and the Radical Tradition by James Crossley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), £109.99 Arthur Leslie Morton is best known as the author of A People’s History of England, first published by the Left Book Club in 1938.… Continue Reading
A review of The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto (Stanford University Press, 2020), £18.89 And The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson (Verso, 2025), £19.99 More than… Continue Reading
The fight against all forms of oppression was central to the Leninist concept of the role of the party—and to the task the Communist International (Comintern) set itself for the overthrow of capitalism.1 In a previous article, I looked at… Continue Reading
The global movement of solidarity with Palestine is extensive and vibrant. Everywhere, there are pressing questions about the Palestinian future—and about the Palestinian past, especially histories of colonial rule, imperialist strategy, Zionism, resistance and national liberation.1 Two issues come up… Continue Reading
In this interview with Rob Ferguson, Ukrainian researcher and writer Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the issues raised in his book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and other publications. Volodymyr is a well-known speaker on Ukraine in international academic… Continue Reading