A review of Sam Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), £36.50, and Richard Gott, Cuba: A New History (Yale, Nota Bene series, 2005), £9.99 One side-effect of the current upsurge of struggle… Continue Reading
Put plainly, the US is moving steadily and solidly to the right. That poses a problem for Democrats, who have to learn to speak to the people of those red states if they are ever to hold power again. But… Continue Reading
Italy: an uncertain victory Danilo Corradi, Brune Seban and Barbara de Vivo are members of Sinistra Critica, an anticapitalist platform within Rifondazione Comunista. They spoke to International Socialism about Italy’s election and the new centre-left government. There have been big… Continue Reading
Germany’s strategy debate Volkhard Mosler, secretary of Frankfurt WASG and a leading figure in Linksruck, Christine Buchholz, a member of the national executive of WASG and a member of Linksruck and Maya Mosler, who was a delegate to WASG party… Continue Reading
A quite extraordinary movement Annick Coupé It was a quite extraordinary movement, which lasted two and a half months, from the first demonstration to the last mobilisation—extraordinary also in terms of the very high level of mobilisation among young people,… Continue Reading
The arguments in Bolivia between Morales and his left critics are part of a much wider discussion across much of Latin America. The shift to the left is spreading—most notably with a massive student struggle in Chile at the end… Continue Reading
The nationalisation of Bolivia’s oil and gas reserves on 1 May was another step forward in the radicalisation of Latin America. Talk of socialism in the 21st century in Venezuela, it seemed, was translated into action against the multinationals 2,000… Continue Reading
The New York Times did not, for some reason, count New Labour in Britain as among its weak European governments. It ought to have done. Blair’s government shows all the symptoms of being on its last legs, even though it… Continue Reading
‘There is a strong sense in Europe that, because of weak governments and divided publics, the continent’s three big countries are unable to make the economic changes that most political leaders agree are essential to restoring growth.’ So said the… Continue Reading
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939-2003) was one of the last of the engagé writers of Southern Europe, left wing intellectuals produced by the large Communist parties of the 1960s and 1970s. Prolific journalist, essayist and novelist, he was an outstanding interpreter… Continue Reading