The accidents of publishing schedules mean that two issues of both New Left Review and Historical Materialism have appeared since International Socialism 129 came out. They also mean that Historical Materialism 18.3 posthumously publishes an article by Chris Harman. Chris… Continue Reading
Issa G Shivji, Accumulation in an African Periphery: a Theoretical Framework (Mkuki na Nyoto Publishers), £15.95 Professor Shivji of the University of Dar es Salaam has been writing in the Marxist tradition since the 1970s when, for example, he wrote… Continue Reading
Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill’s Secret War: the British Empire and the Ravaging of India during the Second World War (Basic Books, 2010), £18.99 The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 is one of the most terrible episodes of the Second World War. According… Continue Reading
Perry Anderson, The New Old World (Verso, 2009), £24.99 Given the crisis that has gripped Europe over the last year, exposing deep faultlines within the EU, there is no better time for a Marxist examination of the union to appear.… Continue Reading
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, (Monthly Review Press, 2010), £14.95 The failure of the world powers to reach a substantial agreement on carbon emissions at the Cancún summit in… Continue Reading
Ian Goodyer, Crisis Music: The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism (Manchester University Press, 2009), £60 Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR)—in tandem with Unite Against Fascism (UAF)—has played a key role in the movement to take on the British National… Continue Reading
There was a lovely piece on capitalism and disability from Roddy Slorach in the last issue of International Socialism, with a very well balanced account of the social model of disability which, as Roddy says, “turned received wisdom on its… Continue Reading
This article responds to criticisms of the broad anarchist tradition in International Socialism, an International Socialist Tendency (IST) journal.1 I will discuss topics such as the use of sources, defending revolutions and freedom, the Spanish anarchists, anarchism and democracy, the… Continue Reading
The last few issues of this journal have seen a debate develop over the Marxist attitude to sex work.1 Jane Pritchard’s original article, “The Sex Work Debate”,2 elicited a critical response from Gareth Dale and Xanthe Rose.3 Jess Edwards replied… Continue Reading
Everyone knows the joke that, of the last three crises, Marxists have predicted at least five. What the joke doesn’t say is that they failed to predicted a sixth, their own crisis, to which I will devote these remarks. To… Continue Reading