A review of Lessons in George Orwell and Russia: 2+2=5, Masha Karp (Bloomsbury, 2023), £21.99 No 20th century British author has been more written about than Eric Arthur Blair, famous under his pen-name George Orwell. Still, for those interested in… Continue Reading
In September 2019, during a year of rising environmental activism punctuated by swelling climate strikes and Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, climate campaigner Greta Thunberg spoke to the United Nations Climate Action Summit.1 One of her most memorable lines was, “People are… Continue Reading
On 25 April 1974, as the banned song Grandola, Vila Morena played on the radio, tanks rolled onto the streets of Lisbon.1 A revolt by around 400 army officers, organised in the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas; MFA),… Continue Reading
George Galloway, running as MP for Rochdale and leader of the Workers’ Party of Britain (WPB), is one of the most high-profile individuals involved in the pro-Palestinian challenge to the Labour Party at the 2024 general election.1 That is why… Continue Reading
Our previous issue of International Socialism went to press carrying the banner headline, “Globalise the Intifada!”.1 By the time it returned from the printers, student encampments in solidarity with Gaza had sprung up in universities in the United States, a… Continue Reading
Aus dem Englischen von Thomas Weiß. Durchgesehen von Rosemarie Nünning. Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 180 (Herbst 2023) – http://isj.org.uk/the-challenge-of-antisemitism/. Der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus ist heutzutage schwierig.1 Es gibt drei Herausforderungen: Erstens hat der Antisemitismus weltweit nachweislich zugenommen.2 Um von… Continue Reading
A review of The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon, Alessandro Delfanti (Pluto, 2021), £19.99 After his brief space journey in July 2021, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said, with disarming frankness, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every… Continue Reading
A review of Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 3: The Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being Also a Theory of Crises, Henryk Grossman (Haymarket, 2022), £50 Henryk Grossman’s The Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of… Continue Reading
I am very grateful to Donny Gluckstein for his kind and attentive review of my new book, The New Age of Catastrophe.1 It is a real pleasure to have one’s work reviewed by someone who is a long-standing comrade and… Continue Reading
I welcome Paul Murphy’s response to my recent article on revolutionaries and elections.1 Murphy is a superb socialist member of the Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, where he represents the People Before Profit (PBP) formation, in which members of Socialist Workers Network… Continue Reading