Authors associated with International Socialism have played an outsized role in theorising the relationship between the rank and file and the bureaucracy in the trade union movement. An article by Alexis Vassiley, “Once More on the Rank and File-Union Bureaucracy… Continue Reading
Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton have an interesting article, entitled “Reframing the geopolitics of global capitalism”, in the 2024 edition of the journal Socialist Register. Although framed in a somewhat obscure discussion of the philosophy of form or content,… Continue Reading
Hamza Hamouchene is an Algerian scholar and activist who is based in London. He spoke to Oisín Challen Flynn about a collection of essays, Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto, 2023), which he co-edited… Continue Reading
More than six months into the greatest crisis to grip the Middle East for a generation, it is sometimes hard to find words that adequately describe its scale and intensity.1 As I write, Israeli troops are poised to invade Rafah… Continue Reading
One year after the brutal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, those who have opposed Russia and NATO stand vindicated.1 The Eastern European country is a battleground for United States and NATO ambitions to reassert their hegemony in the… Continue Reading
A review of The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism, Ulrich Brand and Marcus Wissen (Verso, 2021), £16.99 Over the past decade, Marxists have published many valuable works on capitalism and ecology.1 Yet, there… Continue Reading
We are at a turning point in world politics. Two nuclear-armed camps confront each other on the Eurasian landmass for the first time since the Berlin blockade at the start of the Cold War. The war in Ukraine is not… Continue Reading
The ultimate outcome of the Russian invasion of Ukraine remained uncertain as International Socialism went to press.1 However, the brutality of the offensive was beyond doubt. This was epitomised by the siege of Mariupol, where shelling and airstrikes were said… Continue Reading
A review of Breaking Up the British State: Scotland, Independence and Socialism, Bob Fotheringham, Colm Bryce and Dave Sherry (eds) (Bookmarks, 2021), £12 Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland’s devolved government, was perhaps the only politician to emerge with any… Continue Reading
The racist system that governs the lives of everyone who lives within the borders of historic Palestine has increasingly been labelled a form of “apartheid”, recalling the oppression of the black majority in South Africa.1 This analysis of the Israeli… Continue Reading