On the Jacobin website economist Michael Roberts, a regular contributor to this journal, analyses the economic woes on the horizon for a beleaguered Theresa May government. Roberts cites a sharp fallback in labour productivity resulting from lack of business investment… Continue Reading
February’s Monthly Review included a useful article by John Bellamy Foster on Donald Trump and climate change. Foster refers to the climate change denialists filling the ranks of the Trump cabinet and transition team, including Anthony Scaramucci who has said,… Continue Reading
The May issue of Monthly Review is the best for a long time. It contains an outstanding article on Albert Einstein’s Marxist politics (by John J Simon and available at http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/); a very useful piece commemorating the 20th anniversary of… Continue Reading
In the latest issue of Irish Marxist Review (issue 16) Kieran Allen asks why Ireland has become one of the world’s premier tax havens, highlighted earlier this year by the political establishment’s refusal to force Apple to pay 13 billion… Continue Reading
October’s Science and Society (volume 80, number 4) is a special issue edited by Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos entitled “Crises and Transformation of Capitalism: Marx’s Investigations and Contemporary Analysis”. Their reasons for revisiting Marx’s writings on crises are twofold:… Continue Reading
The most recent issue of Critique (volume 44, issue 1-2) includes an article by Christian Høgsbjerg assessing the influence of the events in Spain of 1936 on the writings of Trinidadian Marxist historian C L R James. James helped organise… Continue Reading
In an interview on the Jacobin website Egyptian Revolutionary Socialist Sameh Naguib recalls the events of the Egyptian revolution and counter-revolution. Naguib explains how the origins of the revolution were both political and economic and how mass strikes and movements… Continue Reading
The centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising is fast approaching. The latest issue of the Irish Marxist Review commemorates with a special issue. Kieran Allen assesses the myths and reality of the rising, Mary Smith reveals the neglected history of… Continue Reading
September’s Monthly Review features an article by Ian Angus on the Anthropocene, a proposed new geological epoch defined by the human influence on the Earth. Some Marxists have flatly rejected the notion of the Anthropocene (see Andreas Malm, “The Anthropocene… Continue Reading
The latest issue of New Left Review (II/93) is dominated by two pieces by Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos, whose sudden and explosive electoral emergence turned the Spanish state upside down last year. The first is an article that… Continue Reading