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Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

Alasdair MacIntyre, who died on 21 May 2025, aged 96, was an influential philosopher. His most famous book, After Virtue, first published in 1981, is a landmark in moral philosophy. MacIntyre converted to Catholicism several decades ago but, in an… Continue Reading →

Pick of the quarter

“Traffic wardens, soldiers, gardeners…”

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

A review of Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector (two volumes) by Alexander Gallas (Bristol University Press, 2024), £80 and £85 Until the 1990s, social theory attached importance to the influence of work and to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews class theory, Poulantzas, Working class

An incitement to revolution

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

A review of The Time of the Harvest Has Come: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants’ War by Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2025), £12 Five hundred years ago, tens of thousands of peasants took to the roads and marched across great… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Germany, Peasants' revolt, reformation

Contesting two centuries of reactionary feminism

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading →

Book reviews feminism, trans rights, women's liberation

Trump, tariffs and economic chaos

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

In April 2025, president of the United States Donald Trump shocked the world with the scale of the tariffs he threatened to impose on imports.1 In this article, I identify the factors motivating Trump and the likely consequences. His message,… Continue Reading →

Article Donald Trump, economic crisis, United States

Fighting Trump: resistance in the US

Posted on 2nd July 2025 by International Socialism

The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, did not face huge demonstrations at the start of his second term in January 2025. However, resistance is now growing. Trump’s strategy of “flooding the zone” with executive actions has caused… Continue Reading →

Analysis democrats, Trump, United States

Revolutionaries, hegemony and the united front

Posted on 2nd July 2025 by International Socialism

The working class is fragmented in its politics, including its support for different parties or no party at all.1 The existence of these divisions is not an accident of history that can be wished away. It reflects ideological currents rooted… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, Leon Trotsky, United Front

Force and fraud: capitalist repression and the lessons from the 1920s

Posted on 1st July 2025 by International Socialism

The British state’s assaults on the Palestine movement, Kurdish activists, Just Stop Oil members and others in 2024 and 2025 is a serious challenge to our right to protest and to organise.1 The arrests at the national demonstration for Palestine… Continue Reading →

Article 1926 general strike, repression, state

To put an end to the abortion wars, we need mass struggle

Posted on 1st July 2025 by International Socialism

The global surge of attacks on abortion rights has been a wake-up call for pro-choice activists in Australia.1 In June 2022, thousands rallied in solidarity with women in the United States when Roe v Wade was overturned by the US… Continue Reading →

Article abortion, Australia, women's liberation

The AI arms race

Posted on 1st July 2025 by International Socialism

There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligence (AI). The phalanx of smirking tech bros… Continue Reading →

Article AI, climate crisis, imperialism

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