A review of Breaking Up the British State: Scotland, Independence and Socialism, Bob Fotheringham, Colm Bryce and Dave Sherry (eds) (Bookmarks, 2021), £12 Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland’s devolved government, was perhaps the only politician to emerge with any… Continue Reading
A review of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical—The Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), £12 Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life, Amy Aronson (Oxford University Press, 2019), £25.49 Two new biographies unearth… Continue Reading
It may seem paradoxical, but it is the case that some of the most powerfully life-affirming and enriching art and literature is not work that appears to be “positive”, “optimistic”, “hopeful” and “encouraging”, or that shows how the world could… Continue Reading
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