On 25 April 1974, as the banned song Grandola, Vila Morena played on the radio, tanks rolled onto the streets of Lisbon.1 A revolt by around 400 army officers, organised in the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas; MFA),… Continue Reading
Hunger is once again stalking the planet.1 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s World Food Price Index hit a record high of 159.3 points in March this year, up 12.6 percent from February as fertiliser prices soared and the… Continue Reading
Sudan has experienced a sharp development of its revolutionary movement in response to the deepening crisis of the state and society since a military coup on 25 October 2021. The coup saw the Sudanese civilian opposition parties summarily ejected from… Continue Reading
For several weeks in October 2020, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Nigeria to protest against police brutality. The protests came after news circulated that the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had killed a young man… Continue Reading
In International Socialism 141 Roland Boer gives a fascinating account of how Luther Blissett’s novel Q is “a stunning reclamation of the revolutionary Christian tradition for a whole generation of anti-capitalist activists”.1 The novel concerns the period of the radical… Continue Reading
Identity and entity The reduction of current struggles in Lebanon and Syria in particular, and across the Middle East in general, to purely abstract nationalistic, sectarian and “identitarian” dimensions is one of the dominating features of the analytical and methodical… Continue Reading
In International Socialism 137 Alex Callinicos mixes deserved praise of Neil Davidson’s How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? with some qualifications. While agreeing wholeheartedly with both Alex’s praise and reservations, there is perhaps something more which could be added. If… Continue Reading
A review of Neil Davidson, How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Haymarket, 2012), £22.99 This is a book in the grand style. This is true physically—getting on for 700 pages of text, 70 of notes and nearly another 70 of… Continue Reading
Twenty-five years ago Bookmarks published a collection of essays under the title Revolutionary Rehearsals. The book has since been republished by Haymarket Press of Chicago. In its pages Ian Birchall wrote about France in May 1968, Mike Gonzalez about the… Continue Reading
I am a West Indian, a lover of liberty, and would dishonour human nature if I did not shew myself a friend to the liberty of others.1 The story of Robert Wedderburn (1762-1835/6) is rightly becoming better known. As a… Continue Reading