A review of Breaking Our Chains: Women, Marxism and the Path to Liberation by Sarah Bates, Judy Cox and Sally Campbell (bookmarks, 2026), £10.00 “It’s the pussy-grabbers’ world—we just live in it,” quipped Marina Hyde back in February 2026.1 It… Continue Reading
A review of Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx (translated by Kevin B Anderson and Karel Ludenhof) (PM Press, 2022), £15.99 The need for the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by a socialist society based on human need… Continue Reading
A review of Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature, Kaan Kangal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), £44.99 Was Friedrich Engels an “enemy within” who did a fundamental disservice to Marxism? Did he make a mistake by trying to apply Marxist principles… 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
Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 166—isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels waren große Verfechter der Frauenbefreiung – in Bezug auf die Theorieentwicklung und die Praxis, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat.1 Es wurden… Continue Reading
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… Continue Reading
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both took a great interest in early human history and prehistory, and it was Marx’s notes on Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society that prompted Engels to produce The Origin of the Family, Private Property and… Continue Reading
In a recent and reasonably popular biography, Tristram Hunt charges Friedrich Engels with a series of class and gender contradictions: he condemned prostitution but enjoyed it himself; he looked askance at marriage and yet married Lizzy Burns on her deathbed;… Continue Reading
The terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit Tohuku in northeastern Japan on 11 March took place as this issue of International Socialism was on its way to the press. The scenes in which the tsunami swept away vast swathes of… Continue Reading