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Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today

Posted on 8th April 2021 by Richard Donnelly

On 6 January 2021, far-right protestors—many bearing Confederate flags, some open fascists—stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, seat of the United States Congress. Liberal and leftist commentators were quick to denounce the action, as a result of which five people… Continue Reading →

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Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade

Posted on 6th April 2021 by Richard Donnelly

Over the past decade, the Middle East and North Africa have experienced waves of popular uprisings that have turned the region into fertile ground for experiments in revolutionary mobilisation—and a laboratory for the horrors of counter-revolution.1 Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria,… Continue Reading →

Article, Interview

The Holocaust: Marxist and psychoanalytical approaches

Posted on 27th February 2021 by Richard Donnelly

This article is a response to Henry Maitles’s review of Enzo Traverso in International Socialism 169. Henry Maitles’s review of Enzo Traverso’s collection of essays in Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History is… Continue Reading →

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Marxism beyond the binaries

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Laura Miles, Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation, Bookmarks (2020), £10. It is rare indeed to get an extended, detailed account of the challenges that are faced by a highly marginalised social group across… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews

Putting the sin into syncopation

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Gerald Horne, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, Monthly Review Press (2019), £22. Jazz has an unfortunate reputation these days.1 It is often seen as “high culture”, something to be respected rather… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews

Vere Gordon Childe and prehistory: a way of thinking, and much more

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Terry Irving, The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe, Monash University Publishing (2020), £25.99. World-renowned archaeologist, prehistorian and linguist Vere Gordon Childe’s career spanned three decades from 1925 until 1957. He… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews

Cedric Robinson, racial capitalism and the return of black radicalism

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The terms “black radicalism” and “racial capitalism” have become buzzwords in the revitalised international discussion about race that has arisen in parallel with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2013. Indeed, the idea that capitalism is inherently linked to racism… Continue Reading →

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Belarus: revolt in the shadow of Stalinism

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

When Aleksander Lukashenko rigged the Belarusian presidential election in August 2020, he expected things to follow a well-practiced pattern.1 After previous elections during his 26 year rule, the Eastern European country’s liberal nationalist opposition would cry fraud at the results.… Continue Reading →

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Genderquake: socialist women and the Paris Commune

Posted on 5th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

On 11 April 1871, three weeks into the life of the Paris Commune, a poster appeared on the walls of France’s capital: Citizenesses, we know that the present social order bears within itself the seeds of poverty and of the… Continue Reading →

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Palestinian youth: a
silver lining and a ray of hope

Posted on 3rd January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The news from Palestine, as has been the case for a long while now, is bad and depressing on many levels. The announcement of the “deal of the century” and subsequent gestures from the United States towards Israel, capped off… Continue Reading →

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