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Capital

Did Marx base Capital on Dante’s Inferno?

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of William Clare Roberts, Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Princeton University Press, 2017), £27.95. Marx’s Inferno by William Clare Roberts seems unsure what kind of book it is supposed to be. On the one hand, it… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Capital

Marx’s Capital at 150

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

A review of Joseph Choonara, A Reader’s Guide to Marx’s Capital (Bookmarks, 2017), £9.99, Fred Moseley, Money and Totality: A Macro-monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the end of the Transformation Problem (Haymarket, 2016), £24.99 and Ingo Schmidt… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Capital, Economics

Capital in context

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

A review of Alex Callinicos, Deciphering Capital: Marx’s Capital and its Destiny (Bookmarks, 2014), £14.99 Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Capital
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Now online: Shirin Hirsch on Enoch Powell and the "Rivers of Blood" speech
Now online: Judy Cox on How working class women won the vote from issue 158, out in April 2018
Now online: Trump gets serious: Analysis from issue 158, out in April 2018

New Resources

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New to our translations page: Lise Vogel und die Politik der Frauenbefreiung (Nicola Ginsburgh on Lise Vogel and the politics of women's liberation in German)
Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.
Now online: Analysis from issue 153: Alex Callinicos on neoliberalism and its discontents
Online only "How to stop the tanks" by Ron Margulies on the attempted coup in Turkey
"A historic turning point in Brazil" by Eduardo Albuquerque from issue 151 is now online
"Intimations of mortality" Alex Callinicos's analysis from issue 150 is now online
Jane Pritchard on the sex work debate from issue 125 is now available in German. Thanks to Rosemarie Nuenning
25 January 2016 is the 5th anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution- International Socialism has covered events in Egypt from the strike waves that led up to the revolution, the events of 2011 themselves and the situation since: here is a timeline of key articles
Now online, Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) writing in International Socialism in 1987
Suzanne Jeffery's article "Up against the Clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism" translated into Turkish
Anne Alexander on "ISIS and counter-revolution: A Marxist analysis" is available in Turkish here
Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
Videos and transcript of the International Socialism debate on Syriza and Socialist Strategy with Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos
Online only: Vincent Sung analyses the roots of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests here
“Nemesis in Iraq” from issue 143 has been translated into Persian- read the translation here (thanks to Babak PashaJavid)
Online only: Bob Light remembers the 1974-5 Portuguese revolution

Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Work, Class and Resistance’ with Jane Hardy, Kevin Doogan, Lucia Pradella and Jim Wolfreys
Videos from the International Socialism 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 International Socialism 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 International Socialism 56
Video: International Socialism 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

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)
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