Donald Trump was elected to the United States presidency in 2016 by the votes of the Christian right. Some 81 percent of evangelical Christians, who made up a third of the total electorate, voted for him. Not only did a… Continue Reading
Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a useful… Continue Reading
As I write this, a global revolt is shaking ruling classes from Hong Kong to Colombia, via Chile, Haiti, Catalonia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Protest movements in the United Kingdom are not on the scale of those in other countries.… Continue Reading
Chris Harman died suddenly on the night of 6-7 November 2009, on the eve of his 67th birthday. He had been serving his third stint as editor of International Socialism. I took over editing this journal after Chris’s death. Ten… Continue Reading
December 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of Europe’s greatest composers, a musician of a revolutionary era who revolutionised music.1 Why should socialists be interested? The answer is twofold. Firstly, the need for… Continue Reading
The Seattle protests 20 years ago opened a new cycle of anti-capitalist struggle. Despite the influence of the autonomist politics summed up by John Holloway’s famous slogan—“Change the world without taking power”, the dominant currents have looked towards the state… Continue Reading
The year just passed marks the beginning of a new global cycle of revolt. The signs were there by spring.1 By April the Algerian and Sudanese militaries felt obliged to remove the leaders of each country, respectively Abdelaziz Bouteflika and… Continue Reading
The website of Jacobin features an interview with Algerian scholar and activist Hamza Hamouchene covering: the current state of the revolutionary movement, which continues to struggle against the military state six months since it began; the role of organised workers;… Continue Reading
A review of Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disturbing the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018), £18.99 It is a truism that, in the era of economic globalisation, capital needs to circulate without disruption. The complex network… Continue Reading
A review of Geoff Mann, In The Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution (Verso, 2019), £14.99 Geoff Mann’s (sympathetic) critique of John Maynard Keynes—“the most influential economist of the 20th Century”—is worth reading for two… Continue Reading