A profound economic, political and institutional crisis is sweeping Venezuela. The economy is suffering a deep recession triggered most of all by the collapse of the international price of oil, which accounts for something like 95 percent of the country’s… Continue Reading
Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in 1930: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.1 He was writing about an era… Continue Reading
http://isj.org.uk/lise-vogel-and-the-politics-of-womens-liberation—Oktober 2014, aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning1 Mit der wachsenden Wut über Frauenunterdrückung und angesichts der Aktivitäten gegen diese sind auch viele der Argumente aus den 1970er und 1980er Jahren über die Brauchbarkeit der marxistischen Analyse der Frauenunterdrückung wieder… Continue Reading
On the Jacobin website economist Michael Roberts, a regular contributor to this journal, analyses the economic woes on the horizon for a beleaguered Theresa May government. Roberts cites a sharp fallback in labour productivity resulting from lack of business investment… Continue Reading
A review of Dave Randall, Sound System: The Political Power of Music, Pluto Press/Left Book Club (2017), £12.99 The inter-relationship of music and politics, and their immersion into each other’s spaces, has been a source of inspiration for many great… Continue Reading
A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016), £25 There is a moment in the play Not Such A Tory Land, by Exeter’s Riversmeet Productions, when John Milton gives the audience a… Continue Reading
A review of Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Verso (2017), £16.99 Can we rescue Lenin for the 21st century? In this the year of the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution we have to… Continue Reading
The previous issue of International Socialism included an article by Mike Beaken, “Engels, Neanderthals and the Origins of the Family”.1 I would like to welcome this contribution to the discussion of human evolution and the shift it makes away from… Continue Reading
In the previous issue of International Socialism there was an interesting and balanced review by Dave Sewell of Michael Roberts’s book The Long Depression in which Roberts argues that the global economy remains in the throes of a long depression.… Continue Reading
Health and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the… Continue Reading