This article was written at the time of the first UK school student climate strikes. In February and March 2019, UK school students, in huge numbers, took their place in a global movement. The strikes were inspired by the actions… Continue Reading
Lazy clichés run through the liberal media’s depiction of the so-called “ungovernability of France, popular resistance to the advance of neoliberalism that seems so inexorable elsewhere” and the country’s “rigid labour market and work rules that supposedly stand in the… Continue Reading
We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in… Continue Reading
Colin and I first met in 1962 when the Socialist Review Group, the ancestor of the Socialist Workers Party, met at Caxton House Settlement at Finsbury Park.1 I suspect that like me he was a bit in awe of the… Continue Reading
Through a fog of parliamentary manoeuvres, the British state is shambling towards a no-deal Brexit, crashing out of the European Union without any transitional arrangements agreed on. Maybe this will be averted thanks to Theresa May’s last-minute approach to Jeremy… Continue Reading
Introduction, by John Rudge Mike Kidron (1930-2003) was a towering figure in the history of the International Socialist tradition.1 When Mike died in 2003, Alex Callinicos wrote that he “made an enormous contribution to the Socialist Workers Party’s development during… Continue Reading
International Socialism 160, London, Herbst 2018 aus dem Englischen Rosemarie Nünning. In Universitätskreisen und in der radikalen Linken war die Diskussion über Unterdrückung lange Zeit beherrscht von der Privilegien- und der Intersektionalitätstheorie.1 Mit der Niederlage der Arbeiterbewegung Ende der 1970er… Continue Reading
Monthly Review and its editor John Bellamy Foster have been at the forefront of efforts to develop a Marxist ecology over the past few decades. In their November 2018 issue they reprinted an article by Foster and Paul Burkett, “Value… Continue Reading
In his critical but not hostile review of my book Contemporary Trotskyism, Christian Høgsbjerg notes, on the positive side, that it is “generally well-informed”, based on “painstaking empirical research” and is “thought-provoking”.1 He agrees that the social movement activity of… Continue Reading
Mental health in the UK and elsewhere is in crisis. It is a crisis with many different faces. At the time of writing one of the most prominent of these is the extremely high level of emotional distress affecting children… Continue Reading