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Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 26th June 2024 by International Socialism

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 →

Pick of the quarter imperialism, labour movement, Racism

Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 11th April 2024 by International Socialism

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 →

Pick of the quarter imperialism, Middle East, Racism

Bookwatch: challenging the ideology of race

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

Race is once more central to British politics—from Black Lives Matter to the ethnically diverse Tory government’s obsession with deporting refugees, and the rise of a far right claiming that white people are being oppressed by “wokeness”. Several new books… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Anti-racism, Race, Racism

The Demerara Rebellion of 1823: collective bargaining by slave revolt

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

August 2023 marks the bicentenary of one of the most important revolts by enslaved people in the history of the British Empire, taking place in what was then Demerara (later part of British Guiana, now Guyana) on the Caribbean coast… Continue Reading →

Article Guyana, Racism, slave revolts, Slavery

Gone with the Wind, slavery and racism

Posted on 17th April 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Wrath to Come—Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells, Sarah Churchwell (Head of Bloomsbury, 2023), £10.99 Sarah Churchwell’s new book could hardly be timelier. According to a recent YouGov and Economist poll, “More than… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Racism, Slavery, US Civil War

Hubert Harrison: Marxism, Garveyism and black liberation

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

A review of Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927, Jeffrey B Perry (Columbia University Press, 2021), £30 Hubert Harrison was a black revolutionary intellectual and sometime innovative Marxist who debated the relations between race and class, socialism and imperialism… Continue Reading →

Book reviews black nationalism, Garveyism, Racism

Bookwatch: racism and resistance

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

The eruption of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on the 25 May was a spectacular highlight to the eerie summer of 2020. In the United States alone, an… Continue Reading →

Article Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, privilege, Racism

From eugenics to scientific racism

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

In 2013, during his time as Mayor of London, Boris Johnson gave a lecture to city bankers in which he said: Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests, it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality… Continue Reading →

Article biology, Racism, Science

Marx and race: a Eurocentric analysis?

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

There is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia.1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of… Continue Reading →

Article black nationalism, Karl Marx, Racism

How not to resist racism: a lesson from France

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jim Wolfreys, Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France (Hurst, 2018), £14.99 This April, French president Emmanuel Macron urged Catholic bishops to “engage once again” with the “political scene” and “repair” the relationship between… Continue Reading →

Book reviews France, Islamophobia, Racism

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