The latest issue of Irish Marxist Review (number 23) carries an important article by the editor, John Molyneux, called “The Future of Marxism”. John affirms that Marxism definitely has a future, but identifies three areas where fresh and creative thinking… Continue Reading
A review of Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Many on the radical left in Britain and the United States remained silent on the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Even among famous… Continue Reading
A review of David Morgan (ed), The Labour Party in Historical Perspective (Socialist History Society, 2018), £6 This collection of essays ranges over a vast field of Labour Party history. This is both a strength and a weakness. Though it… Continue Reading
A review of Nur Masalha, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Zed Books, 2018), £20 The construction of a people as illegitimate is gathering pace: the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism (which includes “claiming that the existence of… Continue Reading
I am grateful to John Kelly for taking the time to respond to some of the issues raised by my review of his history of the British Trotskyist movement, Contemporary Trotskyism.1 I will here just aim to reply briefly to… Continue Reading
Wayne Asher’s article in the previous issue of International Socialism is a welcome intervention in the debate about the revolutionary left’s position on the European Union.1 It avoids some of the more outlandish claims of the Remain camp in not… Continue Reading
Alex Callinicos correctly asserts that “British capitalism is…heavily dependent on access to European markets”.1 Indeed, some 60 percent of British exports find their way into European markets. There is no doubt that Brexit has unleashed the most serious crisis for… Continue Reading
Introduction, by Alex Callinicos This is the transcript of a talk given by Michael Kidron and of the discussion that followed on Tuesday 5 July 1977, the first of two sessions (the second was called “The Crisis”) that he gave… Continue Reading
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
A review of Mike Gonzalez, The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America (Pluto Press, 2018), £19.99 In January this year, the Venezuelan right launched an attempted coup against the government of Nicolás Maduro,… Continue Reading