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
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
A review of Anonymous, A Warning, Little, Brown (2019), £14.99, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, Bloomsbury (2020), £20. No president of the United States has had more written about… Continue Reading
A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading
Karl Kautsky was known as the Pope of Marxism in the early 20th century, but until recently he appeared to have been almost forgotten.1 He was the leading theorist of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a nominally Marxist mass… Continue Reading
The World Trade Organisation has stated that the Covid-19 pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetime.1 As with any deep crisis, the effects will weigh heaviest on the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in the Global South.… Continue Reading
Bernie Sanders’s two presidential election campaigns, in tandem with the resurgence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), have captured political attention in the United States and beyond. The excitement inspired by the growth of this new left movement in… Continue Reading
A spectre is haunting the world—the spectre of pandemic.1 Invisible to the eye, and indeed even to all but the most powerful electron microscopes, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has nonetheless created panic around the globe. It has brought the world economic… Continue Reading
Around 2.7 billion workers worldwide have been affected by full or partial lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic—around 81 percent of the world’s 3.3 billion workforce. The world economy has seen nothing like this. Nearly all economic forecasts for… Continue Reading