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Should the revolutionary left support Remain?

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Wayne Asher’s article in the previous issue of International Socialism is a welcome intervention in the debate about the revolutionary left’s position on the European Union.1 It avoids some of the more outlandish claims of the Remain camp in not… Continue Reading →

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Remain and replace—a socialist case

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Alex Callinicos correctly asserts that “British capitalism is…heavily ­dependent on access to European markets”.1 Indeed, some 60 percent of British exports find their way into European markets. There is no doubt that Brexit has unleashed the most serious crisis for… Continue Reading →

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The consolation of familiar ideas: a reply to Christian Høgsbjerg

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

In his critical but not hostile review of my book Contemporary Trotskyism, Christian Høgsbjerg notes, on the positive side, that it is “generally well-informed”, based on “painstaking empirical research” and is “thought-provoking”.1 He agrees that the social movement activity of… Continue Reading →

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Marxism and mental distress: a reply to Shirley Franklin

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

Mental health in the UK and elsewhere is in crisis. It is a crisis with many different faces. At the time of writing one of the most prominent of these is the extremely high level of emotional distress affecting children… Continue Reading →

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Capitalism and the Holocaust—the missing link: a reply to Donny Gluckstein

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

In its first three pages, Donny Gluckstein’s review “German Marxism and the Holocaust” in issue 159 of International Socialism gives a sensitive and perceptive overview of many—but not all—of the arguments I put forward in my essay on the cause… Continue Reading →

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In a hole and still digging: the left and Brexit

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

“The fighting party of the advanced class need not fear mistakes. What it should fear is persistence in a mistake, refusal to admit and correct a mistake out of a false sense of shame”.1 Thus Lenin, writing on the eve… Continue Reading →

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Revolutionaries and trade unions: a reply to Mark O’Brien

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

Mark O’Brien’s article in issue 157 of International Socialism, “What has Happened to the British Labour Movement and What Does it Mean for the Left in the Unions?”, adds to the debates in this journal over the last number of… Continue Reading →

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The Bolsheviks and sexual liberation

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

The previous issue of International Socialism included a positive review of Tariq Ali’s book The Dilemmas of Lenin.1 The review is right that in general the book offers an accurate telling of the Russian Revolution. But in one aspect Ali… Continue Reading →

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Why did our ancestors succeed? A response to Mike Beaken

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

The previous issue of International Socialism included an article by Mike Beaken, “Engels, Neanderthals and the Origins of the Family”.1 I would like to welcome this contribution to the discussion of human evolution and the shift it makes away from… Continue Reading →

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The long depression: a discussion

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

In the previous issue of International Socialism there was an interesting and balanced review by Dave Sewell of Michael Roberts’s book The Long Depression in which Roberts argues that the global economy remains in the throes of a long depression.… Continue Reading →

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