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Issue 135

Analysis

The second coming of the radical left

Alex Callinicos

France after Sarkozy: Confronting the politics of despair

Jim Wolfreys

The life and times of Occupy Wall Street

Jen Roesch

Rochdale: an anatomy of the sexual abuse scandal

Judith Orr

Resistance: the best Olympic spirit

Dave Zirin and Gareth Edwards

The Syrian crucible

Jonathan Maunder

The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund

Sai Englert

Characterising the period

Nigel Harris

Twenty five years of revolution

Colin Barker

Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics

Alex Callinicos

A reply to David McNally

Joseph Choonara

Clutching at straws? Some mainstream accounts of the crisis

Brian O'Boyle

Grappling with the united front

Ian Birchall

Book reviews

It’s hard to be a saint in the city

Dan Swain

Consuming culture

Bea Leal

Capital ideas

Sarah Young

Dark mirror

Jack Farmer

Liberalism: theory and practice

Marieke Mueller

Ethnic dissension

Shirin Hirsch

Revolution revisited

Julie Sherry

A citizen of whose world?

Jamie Pitman

Pick of the quarter

This quarter's selection

Cover of issue 135

New Resources on this website:

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Videos from the ISJ event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others

Videos from a discussion of the crisis and the left in Europe with Charlie Kimber and Giorgos Pittas

Videos from the ISJ conference on ‘Crisis, Class and Resistance’ with Robin Blackburn, Alex Callinicos, Guy Standing and others

Why the Earth Summit Failed by David Treece – originally published in ISJ 56

Video: ISJ seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander

“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser

Video: Seminar on ‘Racism in Britain today’ with Richard Seymour”

Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy

Continuing crisis in Thailand

A report on the presidential election in Cyprus

Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy

Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

A report on Turkey’s recent elections

New book on Thailand’s coup

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)

The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)

A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)

Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)

Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)

The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)

Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)

The changing working class (Alex Callinicos and Chris Harman)

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