A year is a long time in pandemics.1 It is a little over 12 months since the first victims succumbed to Covid-19. By the time of writing, the global death toll had reached 1.5 million, a figure likely to rise… Continue Reading
Recent events in France have reinforced developments outlined in my article on Marine Le Pen and have further intensified the level of Islamophobia in French society.1 In October President Emmanuel Macron announced new legislation that will further demonise Muslims in… Continue Reading
The editors of International Socialism were sorry to hear that Marxist economist John Weeks had died at the age of 79 from leukaemia. In 1990 John established the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies… Continue Reading
A review of Enzo Traverso, Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History, IIRE (2019), £17. Can Marxism help us to understand the Holocaust? Marxism is a body of theoretical and experiential understanding that tries… Continue Reading
A review of Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, Cambridge University Press (2019), £22.99 Brendan McGeever’s meticulously researched book uncovers truly shocking revelations about the scale of antisemitism during the civil war that followed the October 1917 Russian Revolution.1… Continue Reading
The eruption of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on the 25 May was a spectacular highlight to the eerie summer of 2020. In the United States alone, an… Continue Reading
Editor’s introduction Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was among the most insightful theorists of the International Socialist tradition and a former editor of this journal.1 His early work focused on an analysis of capitalism during its sustained expansion in the decades following… Continue Reading
The role of trade unions and organised labour in preventing catastrophic climate change is a burgeoning field of research.1 Many academic contributions investigate climate policy issues but leave aside discussion of workers’ action.2 In contrast, this article focuses on past… Continue Reading
The global economy is changing.1 After the financial crash of 2008, world trade declined and has been outpaced by sluggish growth in global production. The Covid-19 crisis and a fall in commodity prices in March 2020 has since driven the… Continue Reading
When faced with great social and political crises, our usual response as socialists is to look for historical parallels and consider what lessons can be drawn from them.1 The Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the globe since early 2020 poses… Continue Reading