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Fighting for the National Health Service in the 1970s—and the lessons for today

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

During the current cost of living crisis, many groups of public sector workers, such as teachers, university lecturers, postal workers and significant sections of National Health Service workers, have taken industrial action.1 The entry of health workers into the waves… Continue Reading →

Archive, Article British working class, NHS, Strikes

Kidron on Pearson on private foreign investment: debunking the myths

Posted on 10th July 2023 by International Socialism

Editor’s introduction I was going to open by writing that Michael Kidron (1930-2003) is best known as a Marxist economist, a leading theoretician of the International Socialist (IS) tradition and the foremost developer of the theory of the permanent arms… Continue Reading →

Archive Economics, global south, Michael Kidron, political economy

Paradox upon paradox: fractal states and their making

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

Editor’s introduction Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was among the most insightful theorists of the International Socialist tradition and a former editor of this journal.1 His early work focused on an analysis of capitalism during its sustained expansion in the decades following… Continue Reading →

Archive, Article neoliberalism, state capitalism

Dialectics, nature and the dialectics of nature

Posted on 9th January 2014 by ISJ

In 1873 Karl Marx’s collaborator Frederick Engels started work on an ambitious volume entitled Dialectics of Nature.1 He described in a letter to Marx how, while lying in bed one morning, he had concluded that the natural sciences were really… Continue Reading →

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Why the Earth Summit failed

Posted on 22nd May 2012 by ISJ

The following article was first published in International Socialism 56 in autumn 1992. It is presented here to mark the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development – also known as the Rio Summit or Earth… Continue Reading →

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