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The forces of production, lean production and management: a reply to Matt Vidal

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

I am pleased that Matt Vidal has responded to my review of his book, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management, giving me a chance to state in a clearer fashion some of the issues I have with his approach.1 These… Continue Reading →

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The forces of production, lean production and management: a reply to Bob Carter

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

My latest book, Management Divided, articulates and develops what I take to be the classical Marxist theory of the labour process, based on a study of 31 manufacturing firms in the United States.1 I theorise the labour process via a… Continue Reading →

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Against sociobiology: a response to Jane Bassett

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

Jane Bassett’s critique of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow, published in a recent issue of this journal, is very welcome, and I agree with her basic conclusions.1 However, I would… Continue Reading →

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British trade unions and the emergence of “legal unionism”: the structural limits of the “official lefts”

Posted on 30th March 2020 by International Socialism

The issues that have driven the “trade union debate” in International Socialism are fundamental to the left in Britain and most importantly to Marxists. The “problem”, often repeated in this journal and elsewhere, is simply this: the level of strike… Continue Reading →

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Party building: A reply to Paul Le Blanc

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

I am very grateful to Paul Le Blanc for responding to my article “In Defence of Party Building” and for his detailed discussion of its contents.1 As Paul and I well know, such expressions of “thanks” are commonly a formal… Continue Reading →

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Socialists vs neoliberals and populists (a brief reply to Asher’s brief reply)

Posted on 17th October 2019 by International Socialism

I wish to thank Wayne Asher for replying to my response to his original article in this journal1 and to take this opportunity to respond once more and clarify further what I had meant to say. Wayne mentions the polarisation… Continue Reading →

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Pathways for building a revolutionary party

Posted on 17th October 2019 by International Socialism

I have been asked to comment on John Molyneux’s polemic “In Defence of Party Building”.1 I am pleased to do so, since discussion on the matter of a revolutionary party has become increasingly urgent—particularly in this moment of accelerating climate… Continue Reading →

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Striking continuity amid great change

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

Along with Mark O’Brien and several other authors in this journal, I am ­anxious to understand what lay behind the dramatic drop in UK strike activity from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and the extremely low level ever… Continue Reading →

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Socialists and the Leave vote—a (brief) reply to Sean Leahy

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

It is encouraging that Sean Leahy has taken up the challenge of defending the Socialist Workers Party’s line on Brexit after my essay in this journal.1 It means we are now openly debating the defining issue of our age. Sound… Continue Reading →

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Trotskyism: a rejoinder to John Kelly

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

I am grateful to John Kelly for taking the time to respond to some of the issues raised by my review of his history of the British Trotskyist movement, Contemporary Trotskyism.1 I will here just aim to reply briefly to… Continue Reading →

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