Vegetation fires are astonishing in their severity.1 Temperatures are painfully intense along the fire’s ember-strewn edges even before the white-heat heart of the blaze arrives. Their smoke is dense, choking, acrid and debilitating. Their 5 kilometres per hour speed of… Continue Reading
Liz Truss, asked to form a new government in what turned out to be the dying act of Queen Elizabeth II, confronts one of the greatest crises for an incoming British prime minister with one of the weakest mandates.1 Truss… Continue Reading
In the summer of 2022, strikes by workers suddenly returned to centre stage.1 Three high profile national disputes catapulted industrial action, picket lines and national union leaders into the public arena. The first nationwide strikes on the railways since 1993,… Continue Reading
Aus dem Englischen von David Paenson und Angelo Kumnenis. Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 172 (Oktober 2021) (http://isj.org.uk/afghanistan-empire) Die überstürzte Flucht des US-amerikanischen Personals aus seiner Botschaft in der afghanischen Hauptstadt Kabul im August markierte den Höhepunkt einer scheußlichen, zwanzig… Continue Reading
As noted in our analysis piece, New Left Review is one of the few socialist journals that shares a similar outlook to International Socialism on the conflict in Ukraine. This is reflected in its excellent double issue, which contains articles… Continue Reading
A review of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (Routledge, 2021), £120 The need to understand how and why the populist far right has been so successful has never been more urgent. The victories for… Continue Reading
A review of The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism, Ulrich Brand and Marcus Wissen (Verso, 2021), £16.99 Over the past decade, Marxists have published many valuable works on capitalism and ecology.1 Yet, there… Continue Reading
On 2 October 2022, the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections will be held, with a second round scheduled for 30 October 2022.1 At the time of writing, the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, has 27 percent of votes, according to… Continue Reading
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