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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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France, Islamophobia and the right: an update

Posted on 26th November 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Recent events in France have reinforced developments outlined in my article on Marine Le Pen and have further intensified the level of Islamophobia in French society.1 In October President Emmanuel Macron announced new legislation that will further demonise Muslims in… Continue Reading →

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Modern capitalism full transcript

Posted on 5th March 2019 by Camilla

Introduction, by John Rudge Mike Kidron (1930-2003) was a towering figure in the history of the International Socialist tradition.1 When Mike died in 2003, Alex Callinicos wrote that he “made an enormous contribution to the Socialist Workers Party’s development during… Continue Reading →

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Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code

Posted on 29th October 2018 by Camilla

Paragraph 219a criminalises doctors who wish to provide information about abortion. Its history goes back a long way and points to the scandal that even today there is no right to abortion in Germany.1 The Kristina Hänel “case” has pushed… Continue Reading →

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Trotsky and the New Stalinism: Introduction by John Rudge

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A new introduction to Chris Harman’s 1967 article “Trotsky and the New Stalinism”, published in issue 160. 2018 is certainly a year of important anniversaries.1 While the British Establishment is remembering a sanitised version of the end of the First… Continue Reading →

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How to stop the tanks

Posted on 25th August 2016 by Camilla

The Turkish left has always been very fond of “the people”. Reference is frequently also made to the working class, of course, but it is the people, the oppressed, the poor who are seen as the agents of social change.… Continue Reading →

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Anti-Bukharin

Posted on 21st July 2015 by Camilla

A reply to Alex Callinicos: “Fighting the Last War” Both Andreas Bieler and me want to thank Alex Callinicos for his engagement and reply “Fighting the Last War” to our article, “Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of… Continue Reading →

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Fighting the Last War

Posted on 26th June 2015 by Camilla

A Note on Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, “Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel? Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War” (Historical Materialism, 23.2 [2015]) Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have just published a long and wide… Continue Reading →

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Alex Callinicos on the situation in the Middle East today

Posted on 6th May 2015 by Camilla

Despite earlier Saudi claims that airstrikes have been stopped, attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen continue. What does Saudi Arabia fight for? Let’s start from the overall position of the Saudi royal family. They preside over the key conservative… Continue Reading →

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China, world capitalism and workers’ resistance- videos

Posted on 23rd April 2015 by Camilla

Videos of some of the talks at our day school on China, 28 February 2015. Jane Hardy on China’s Political Economy and Adrian Budd on China in the World Sally Kincaid speaks about the Hong Kong umbrella protests in 2014… Continue Reading →

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New Resources

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Tony Phillips’s “What can we learn from Kautsky today?” translated into German
Judy Cox’s “How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Joseph Choonara’s “Socialism in a time of pandemics” translated into German – thanks to David Albrich
Now online: Yuri Prasad and Esme Choonara’s article “What’s wrong with privilege theory?” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: John Molyneux’s article “In Defence of Party Building” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Sheila McGregor’s article on social reproduction theory has now been translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Brazil: how big a defeat? Interview with Valério Arcary
Now online: Rosemarie Nünning on the history of abortion law in Germany – Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code
New to our translations page: Lise Vogel und die Politik der Frauenbefreiung (Nicola Ginsburgh on Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation in German)
Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.
Online only “How to stop the tanks” by Ron Margulies on the attempted coup in Turkey
Egyptian Revolution timeline
International Socialism has covered events in Egypt from the strike waves that led up to the revolution, the events of 2011 themselves and the situation since: here is a timeline of key articles
Now online, Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) writing in International Socialism in 1987
Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
Videos of the International Socialism conference on Marxism and nature featuring Ted Benton and Ian Angus
Videos and transcript of the International Socialism debate on Syriza and Socialist Strategy with Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos
Online only: Vincent Sung analyses the roots of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests here
Online only: Bob Light remembers the 1974-5 Portuguese revolution
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Work, Class and Resistance’ with Jane Hardy, Kevin Doogan, Lucia Pradella and Jim Wolfreys
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others
Video: International Socialism seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander
“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser
Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy
Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy
Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)
The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)
A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)
Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)
Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)
The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)
Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)
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