Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism 179 (Sommer 2021) (http://isj.org.uk/revolutionaries-and-elections) Verschiedene Entwicklungen haben im Jahr 2023 das Interesse an einer möglichen Wahlbeteiligung revolutionärer Sozialist:innen in Großbritannien neu geweckt.1 Dazu zählen die fortgesetzte Rechtsentwicklung der Labour… Continue Reading
On 17 July 1930, Archibald Fenner Brockway, a leading member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), stood on the floor of the House of Commons and attempted to raise the question of the massive scale of repression unleashed in India… Continue Reading
August 2023 marks the bicentenary of one of the most important revolts by enslaved people in the history of the British Empire, taking place in what was then Demerara (later part of British Guiana, now Guyana) on the Caribbean coast… Continue Reading
Several issues in 2023 have helped spark renewed interest in the potential for revolutionary socialists in Britain to engage in electoral work.1 These include the continued rightward shift of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer; the presence of various left-wing… Continue Reading
Sudan is no stranger to war, but the conflict that erupted on 15 April 2023 between the two generals who earlier led the military coup of October 2021 has shattered the capital city and thrown millions of people into crisis.1… Continue Reading
What has been happening in France since January 2023 comes closest—in terms of its breadth and duration—to a revolutionary situation in an advanced capitalist country in decades.1 In addition to the objective factors, such as the deepening contradictions of capitalism… Continue Reading
A widely anticipated recession across the major economies had not taken hold by the time International Socialism went to press, but there was no doubt that the global economy was coming under intense strain.1 The post-Covid rebound in economic activity… Continue Reading
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was the first of a series of political earthquakes that shook British politics in the past decade.1 This journal has contributed to an argument that the Scottish independence movement was not some retreat from class… Continue Reading
The term “lean production” refers to a series of organisational processes and techniques developed by Toyota and popularised by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos in their bestselling work, The Machine That Changed The World: The Triumph of Lean… Continue Reading
The coup that returned Myanmar’s military to power in February 2021 caused shock and revulsion around the world. It brought an abrupt end t0 the limited democracy and real political freedoms that had emerged over the previous ten years after… Continue Reading