A review of From Value to Uneven Development: Selected writings by John Weeks in the Marxist tradition edited by Ben Fine, Simon Mohun, Alfredo Saad-Filho (Brill, 2024), £110 This book brings together a selection of the theoretical writings of the… Continue Reading
A review of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (John Murray Press, 2023) Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian journalist and liberal Zionist who accused Corbyn of antisemitism. Currently, he… Continue Reading
A review of A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid (John Murray Press, 2024), £12.99 From 1918 to 1920, a total of 180,000 allied troops conducted an undeclared war to overthrow the… Continue Reading
A review of The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World by Kehinde Andrews (Allen Lane, 2023), £10.99 What is Anti-racism? And Why it Means Anti-capitalism by Arun Kundnani (Verso, 2023), £16.99 The Black Lives Matter Movement… Continue Reading
In the previous issue of International Socialism, John Mullen wrote a reply to my article.1 I had criticised the strategy of the Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front; NFP) in light of the history of the original Popular Front in… Continue Reading
In 1919, the Communist International, or Comintern, was founded in high hopes that the Russian Revolution would spread globally.1 The focus was on western Europe with its mass working-class movement. Given the wave of revolutionary fervour, it seemed little was… Continue Reading
In our previous issue, we reflected on the growing political instability, shaped by a multidimensional crisis of capitalism and encompassing shifts in the imperial order and a breakdown of elements of the neoliberal political centre.1 That was written a month… Continue Reading
In May 2015, prominent al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansur sat down with Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, leader of the Syrian armed faction, the Nusra Front, for a lengthy discussion of the group’s worldview and military strategy. His face hidden from the camera,… Continue Reading
In traditional military parlance, the cadre referred to the nucleus of officers around which a unit of soldiers could be built.1 Like many military terms, it would be adopted by revolutionaries in the inter-war period: cadres were the core of… Continue Reading
On 3 December 2024, South Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted an “auto-coup”, declaring martial law in a live televised address. He claimed that shadowy forces were acting against the state, attempting to impeach members of his cabinet and… Continue Reading