Cuba

The new Cuba: myths and realities

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

A review of Steve Cushion, A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £20.42 and Jane Franklin, Cuba and the US Empire: A Chronological History (Monthly Review Press, 2016),… Continue Reading →

Medicine in post-revolutionary Cuba

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

P. Sean Brotherton, Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Duke University Press, 2012), £16.99 Cuba is back in the international news. In December 2014, it was announced that relations between Cuba and the United States were “thawing”;… Continue Reading →

The new Cuba: myths and realities

Medicine in post-revolutionary Cuba

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)