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Remembering Muzan Alneel

Posted on 16th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Online only Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, Sudan

Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Pick of the quarter

The German Peasants’ War: masculinity, realists and utopians

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews Middle Ages, peasants, Peasants' revolt

The herd of elephants in the room

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews A L Morton, Communist Party, stalinism

The last years of Karl Marx: global perspectives and revolutionary potentials

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews Eurocentrism, Karl Marx, women's liberation

Fighting oppression: the Comintern and the US Communist Party

Posted on 5th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Article black liberation, Comintern, United States

National liberation and the left in Palestine

Posted on 5th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Article colonialism, Comintern, Palestine

Interview: Ukraine, imperialism and the left

Posted on 5th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Analysis, Interview imperialism, Russia, Ukraine

Showdown in Minnesota

Posted on 5th April 2026 by International Socialism

The murderous assault by the United States and Israel on Iran, discussed elsewhere in this issue by Anne Alexander, was prefaced by Donald Trump’s military-style occupation of the state of Minnesota. However, his war within the US borders has been… Continue Reading →

Analysis Minnesota, Trump, United States

“We are the counter-revolution”: Tommy Robinson and the remaking of British fascism

Posted on 31st March 2026 by International Socialism

On 13 September 2025, Britain saw the largest far-right rally in its history.1 Around 110,000 people marched through central London, dwarfing all previous mobilisations, including the British Union of Fascists’ (BUF) infamous Olympia rally of June 1934.2 The march was… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, Tommy Robinson, Trotsky

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