In this interview with Rob Ferguson, Ukrainian researcher and writer Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the issues raised in his book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and other publications. Volodymyr is a well-known speaker on Ukraine in international academic… Continue Reading
The murderous assault by the United States and Israel on Iran, discussed elsewhere in this issue by Anne Alexander, was prefaced by Donald Trump’s military-style occupation of the state of Minnesota. However, his war within the US borders has been… Continue Reading
The threat of Reform UK has crystallised since the 2024 general election.1 In May 2025, the party won 677 seats and 31 percent of the vote in local elections, taking control of ten councils and two mayoral seats. Andrea Jenkyns,… Continue Reading
The horrors accompanying the breakdown of earlier methods of managing and organising global capitalism were very much in evidence this autumn.1 The genocide in Gaza most starkly symbolises this—but ongoing ecological disruption, combined with grinding economic stagnation across most of… Continue Reading
The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, did not face huge demonstrations at the start of his second term in January 2025. However, resistance is now growing. Trump’s strategy of “flooding the zone” with executive actions has caused… Continue Reading
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.
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
In 2021, the new government of chancellor Olaf Scholz took over from the conservatives and pre-emptively celebrated itself as a “progress coalition” that is “setting the course for a decade of social, ecological, economic, digital, and social renewal”.1 The coalition… Continue Reading
In the final weeks of a close—and nasty—presidential election, a feeling of dread took over. This replaced the temporary and undeserved “Kamalamania” that had peaked as I wrote for the previous issue of International Socialism.1 The re-election of Donald Trump… Continue Reading
A tangle of seemingly disconnected signals emerged from the sequence of elections in 2024, encompassing the dramatic victory of Donald Trump in the United States presidential elections as well as Labour leader Keir Starmer’s landslide in Britain.1 One of the… Continue Reading