As 2020 began, a struggle by Indigenous Wet’suwet’en people against attempts to push a natural gas pipeline through their unceded territory sparked a spectacular wave of solidarity across Canada.1 For almost a month, freight and passenger railway traffic ground to… Continue Reading
On 6 January 2021, far-right protestors—many bearing Confederate flags, some open fascists—stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, seat of the United States Congress. Liberal and leftist commentators were quick to denounce the action, as a result of which five people… Continue Reading
Over the past decade, the Middle East and North Africa have experienced waves of popular uprisings that have turned the region into fertile ground for experiments in revolutionary mobilisation—and a laboratory for the horrors of counter-revolution.1 Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria,… Continue Reading
When the first full lockdown began in Britain, on 26 March 2020, it would have been hard to imagine that over a year later restrictions on travel and socialisation would still be the norm, face masks would be required to… Continue Reading
This article is a response to Henry Maitles’s review of Enzo Traverso in International Socialism 169. Henry Maitles’s review of Enzo Traverso’s collection of essays in Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History is… Continue Reading
A review of Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It, David Renton (Routledge, 2021), £19.99 Under the rather haughty title Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From… Continue Reading
International Socialism has, over recent issues, argued that the world is in a grip of a “triple crisis”—expressed through the pandemic, economic disorder and ecological destruction. Across the Atlantic, John Bellamy Foster, the editor of the United States-based Monthly Review,… Continue Reading
A review of Talat Ahmed, Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience, Pluto (2019), £12.99. For readers who know little of India’s history and its “founding father”, Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience is an excellent choice. Talat Ahmed provides a… Continue Reading
A review of Laura Miles, Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation, Bookmarks (2020), £10. It is rare indeed to get an extended, detailed account of the challenges that are faced by a highly marginalised social group across… Continue Reading
A review of Gerald Horne, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, Monthly Review Press (2019), £22. Jazz has an unfortunate reputation these days.1 It is often seen as “high culture”, something to be respected rather… Continue Reading