The French Front National (National Front, FN), now the Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN), is one of the most successful far-right parties in Europe.1 Formed in 1972, its roots and ideology are firmly in the fascist tradition. However, since its… Continue Reading
The killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked a global rebellion against racism that has been remarkable in its reach, determination and resilience.1 The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has shone a spotlight not just… Continue Reading
On 4 August a massive explosion shook Beirut port when a neglected storehouse of ammonium nitrate blew up, catapulting Lebanon onto the front pages of the global media. The volatile chemical was being stored next to the country’s main grain… Continue Reading
It is sometimes tempting to see 2020 as a ghastly aberration, with the Covid-19 pandemic and the multifaceted crisis it has engendered an interruption to “normal life”, which will eventually resume.1 However, whatever part ill-fortune played in the emergence of… Continue Reading
Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 167—http://isj.org.uk/what-can-we-learn-from-kautsky-today/. Aus dem Englischen von David Paenson, Angelo Kumnenis und Rosemarie Nünning. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts galt Karl Kautsky als Papst des Marxismus. Danach geriert er bis vor Kurzem allem Anschein nach vollkommen… Continue Reading
Salgın hastalıkları doğanın, insan toplumuna yönelik öngörülemez, yıkıcı bir saldırısı olarak görmek cazip gelebilir.1 Ancak Koronavirüs Salgını 2019’un (Covid-19) patlak vermesi hiç de “doğal” bir olgu değildir. Epidemiler ve pandemiler; virüslerin mutasyonu, bir konaktan diğerine geçişi ve canlı organizmalar üzerindeki… Continue Reading
The editors of International Socialism were saddened to hear of the death of Neil Davidson in May. Neil was a member of our editorial board from 2005 to 2013. He was a sharp Marxist thinker, who produced an extraordinary body… Continue Reading
A review of Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Verso (2020), £20. “Maritime trade, logistics and hydrocarbon transport,” Laleh Khalili argues in this detailed and enjoyable book, “are the clearest distillation of… Continue Reading
A review of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart: How The World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundations for Socialism, Verso (2019), £9.99, and Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Verso (2019), £16.99. In The People’s… Continue Reading
A review of David Wearing, AngloArabia, Wiley (2018), £15.99. It is now 50 years since Britain formally ended its colonial rule in the Persian Gulf. However, David Wearing’s AngloArabia shows that the relationship between the British state and the Gulf… Continue Reading