Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Durchgesehen von David Paenson. Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 170 (April 2021) (http://isj.org.uk/eastern-bloc-women) Die Frage, wie die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entstandenen Gesellschaften, die von 1948 bis 1989 den Ostblock bildeten – Albanien, Bulgarien,… Continue Reading
Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 175 (June 2022) (http://isj.org.uk/women-first-civilisations) Die von Frauen geleistete Arbeit hat in der feministischen und linken Debatte in den vergangenen Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit gefunden, insbesondere die im Haushalt und im Gesundheitswesen.1 Summiert wird das teils unter… Continue Reading
Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 175 (June 2022) (http://isj.org.uk/eurasian-faultline) Wir befinden uns an einem Wendepunkt der Weltpolitik: Zum ersten Mal seit der Blockade Berlins zu Beginn des Kalten Kriegs prallen in Eurasien zwei atomar… Continue Reading
Analysis Trussonomics confronts the crisis Joseph Choonara Striking back: is the class struggle reviving in Britain? Mark Thomas Interview: Sri Lanka’s stalled revolt Ahilan Kadirgamar A supreme injustice: the battle for abortion rights in the United States Judith Orr Interview:… Continue Reading
Socialist Worker, our sister publication, recently published an online piece by one of our board members, Martin Upchurch, introducing readers to the mass of writings debating the relationship between the rank and file and bureaucracy in trade unions (https://socialistworker.co.uk/long-reads/an-activists-guide-to-trade-union-leaders-and-the-rank-and-file). It… Continue Reading
A review of Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain’s Lost Revolutionary, Harry Taylor (Pluto, 2021), £16.99 Although the Edwardian era may have been the Indian summer of Victorian grandeur, it was also a period of growth for British socialism. The… Continue Reading
A review of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender and the Dialectics of Liberation, Kevin B Anderson, Kieran Durkin and Heather A Brown (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), £95 This edited collection provides a valuable, stimulating and thought-provoking introduction to… Continue Reading
A review of Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927, Jeffrey B Perry (Columbia University Press, 2021), £30 Hubert Harrison was a black revolutionary intellectual and sometime innovative Marxist who debated the relations between race and class, socialism and imperialism… Continue Reading
A review of China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, Richard Smith (Pluto, 2020), £18.99 In 2017, Xi Jinping, China’s president, spoke of developing the country into an “ecological civilisation”. China has signed all the usual international environment and climate agreements and… Continue Reading
Hunger is once again stalking the planet.1 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s World Food Price Index hit a record high of 159.3 points in March this year, up 12.6 percent from February as fertiliser prices soared and the… Continue Reading