The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the system of school examinations into sharp focus.1 The examination season for A levels and GCSEs was cancelled over two consecutive summers in 2020 and 2021.2 In both years, examinations were replaced by teacher-assessed grades—but… Continue Reading
Two years have passed since John Parrington wrote in this journal that “if governments across the world had taken prompt action to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks, much of the current crisis could have been avoided. Instead,… Continue Reading
We are at a turning point in world politics. Two nuclear-armed camps confront each other on the Eurasian landmass for the first time since the Berlin blockade at the start of the Cold War. The war in Ukraine is not… Continue Reading
On 26 July 2022, it will be 50 years since an upsurge of unofficial strikes freed five dockers from Pentonville Prison. Through this action striking workers won what Tony Cliff, founder of the International Socialist tradition associated with this journal,… Continue Reading
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 was arguably the most inspiring movement against racism in recent decades.1 It represented the largest social movement in the history of the United States and forced discussions about racism onto the agenda… Continue Reading
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic and political crisis in nearly 75 years of independence. With foreign currency reserves almost empty, debt repayments spiralling and the value of the rupee collapsing, the country’s leaders have been forced into… Continue Reading
Two issues dominated world politics as International Socialism went to press: the war in Ukraine and the developing economic crisis.1 First, the war. Russia’s initial offensive failed to topple Volodymyr Zelensky’s government in Kiev. Instead, Russian forces have refocused their… Continue Reading
The results of the French presidential elections in April 2022 show a level of polarisation in France not seen since the 1930s. Fascist Marine Le Pen of the Rassemblement National (National Rally; NR) party, previously known as the Front National… Continue Reading
The obituary pages of the left press are today increasingly reminding us of the vitality and intellectual vibrancy of the Marxism of the generation of 1968. In March, we lost Alain Krivine, a leading figure in the Trotskyist Fourth International… Continue Reading
A review of The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution, Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams (eds) (Parthian, 2021), £10 Mythmaking is plentiful in the political and cultural history of Wales. For instance, the antiquarian Iolo Morganwg (also… Continue Reading