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political economy

The political economy of a long depression

Posted on 15th April 2018 by Camilla

It is now a full decade since the financial turmoil that heralded the beginning of the “long depression”.1 On a global scale, the recession that developed in the wake of the collapse of the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers in… Continue Reading →

Article Economics, political economy

Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Ursula Huws, Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age (Monthly Review Press, 2014), £15 and Nick Dyer-Witheford, Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Pluto Press, 2015), £15.99 If Karl Marx were writing… Continue Reading →

Book reviews digital labour, political economy

A class act: Erik Olin Wright in perspective

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Erik Olin Wright, Understanding Class (Verso, 2015), £14.99 Erik Olin Wright has been worrying about class for 40 years. Much of his conceptual thinking and rethinking came about as a result of the empirical investigation Wright led… Continue Reading →

Article Class, Erik Olin Wright, political economy

Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A response to Joseph Choonara

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

It came as no surprise that International Socialism could publish, in the last issue, such a dismissive review of Paul Mason’s fascinating and thought-provoking new book.1 Certainly Mason has moved a considerable distance from the Leninism of his youth and… Continue Reading →

Feedback Class, political economy

Brand new, you’re retro

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

A review of Paul Mason, PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (Allen Lane, 2015), £16.99 Some 45 years ago futurologist Alvin Toffler published a breathless evocation of a world transformed. Visions of talking dolphins and a rather disturbing fixation with… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Class, political economy, Working class
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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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