In this interview with Rob Ferguson, Ukrainian researcher and writer Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the issues raised in his book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and other publications. Volodymyr is a well-known speaker on Ukraine in international academic… Continue Reading
In the 1990s and beyond, the concept of globalisation dominated the business press and academic economics.1 Globalisation became a new orthodoxy and was declared to be sweeping aside state economic intervention of various sorts (planning, nationalised industry and welfare spending)… Continue Reading
Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has shown the world the level of barbarity that a colonial system is willing to inflict against people who dare to resist. It has changed politics in many ways. Around the world, terms such as… Continue Reading
Capitalism and war have always been profoundly connected. Max Weber noted the important role that financing the wars of European states played in the development of early modern capitalism.1 The bond remains as tight as ever today. As the illusions… Continue Reading
We live in dangerous, disorientating times.1 The world was already a terrifying enough place before Donald Trump returned to the White House in early 2025: with Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a human meat grinder in Ukraine and sabre rattling between… Continue Reading
There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligence (AI). The phalanx of smirking tech bros… Continue Reading
A review of A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid (John Murray Press, 2024), £12.99 From 1918 to 1920, a total of 180,000 allied troops conducted an undeclared war to overthrow the… Continue Reading
In May 2015, prominent al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansur sat down with Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, leader of the Syrian armed faction, the Nusra Front, for a lengthy discussion of the group’s worldview and military strategy. His face hidden from the camera,… Continue Reading
On 3 December 2024, South Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted an “auto-coup”, declaring martial law in a live televised address. He claimed that shadowy forces were acting against the state, attempting to impeach members of his cabinet and… Continue Reading
The July issue of Science & Society (volume 88, number 3) contains an interesting and timely symposium on “Imperialism, Anti-imperialism and the Global Class Struggle”. It was provoked by a couple of earlier pieces by William Robinson, who contributed an… Continue Reading