In recent years, trans rights have become a major element of the so-called “culture wars” and the “war on woke” being waged by the right around the world.1 This has gone hand in hand with attacks on analyses of organisations… Continue Reading
In the closing pages of her Women and the Revolution, published in 1938, Ethel Mannin insisted that women faced a stark choice: The women of today must either ally themselves with freedom and life, or with oppression and death; either… Continue Reading
Some 30 years ago, the red flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time as the Soviet Union collapsed on 25 December 1991.1 Yet, although that Stalinist regime is dead, Stalinism continues to cast a long shadow on… Continue Reading
Hong Kong hit the headlines in 2019 when a wave of struggles erupted, trigged by new extradition laws proposed by the Hong Kong government. Lam Chi Leung, a socialist activist based in the region, spoke to International Socialism about the… Continue Reading
The racist system that governs the lives of everyone who lives within the borders of historic Palestine has increasingly been labelled a form of “apartheid”, recalling the oppression of the black majority in South Africa.1 This analysis of the Israeli… Continue Reading
As Alok Sharma, Tory minister and president of the United Nations’ COP26 climate conference, closed proceedings, he was moved to tears.1 “I apologise for the way this process has unfolded and I am deeply sorry. I also understand the deep… Continue Reading
Production is the essential condition for any functioning human society, and collective human labour the foundation of production.1 These basic facts are typically buried under an overgrowth of ideology but the Covid-19 pandemic has helped to strip this back, placing… Continue Reading
David Harvey has, for some time, been among the most prominent Marxist political economists and an important figure in popularising Karl Marx’s Capital through his writings and online lectures. Over the years, Harvey has shifted seemingly ever further from a… Continue Reading
A review of Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature, Kaan Kangal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), £44.99 Was Friedrich Engels an “enemy within” who did a fundamental disservice to Marxism? Did he make a mistake by trying to apply Marxist principles… Continue Reading
A review of First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, David Broder (Verso, 2020), £16.99 Back in the 1970s, Italy was arguably the European country in which the clash between capital and labour was at its most… Continue Reading