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Syriza and Socialist Strategy- Debate video and transcript

Posted on 15th April 2015 by Camilla

The following is a video and transcript of a debate between Stathis Kouvelakis, Syriza central committee member, and Alex Callinicos, editor of International Socialism, Central London, 25 February 2015 Alex Callinicos opens I want to start off by thanking Stathis… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Online only Greece, Syriza

Interview – Mexico in flames: The challenges facing the movement

Posted on 7th January 2015 by ISJ

The disappearance in September of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala in the state of Guerrero, after the police had shot six people dead, has thrown Mexico into a deep crisis. Mass… Continue Reading →

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The birth of a new generation under tear gas: the umbrella movement in Hong Kong

Posted on 16th October 2014 by ISJ

The Umbrella Movement, which involves every walk of life in Hong Kong, is entirely different from Hong Kong’s previous mass protests in the past few decades. This is due to its unprecedented methods of struggle, massive disruption of public order,… Continue Reading →

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This quarter’s selection

Posted on 26th June 2014 by ISJ

The most recent New Left Review (II/86) starts off with an editorial that approaches the Ukraine crisis calmly and rationally. While exposing the hypocrisy of Western denunciations of the Russian annexation of Crimea, Susan Watkins stresses that the US stumbled… Continue Reading →

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A Note on Sex and Early Societies

Posted on 17th January 2014 by ISJ

Terry Sullivan has written an excellent online article (“Pre-Class Sexuality: Free, Warm and Wild”), in which he shows what is in effect the dialectical interaction between the biological and the social aspects of sexual behaviour.1 I would like to make… Continue Reading →

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Pre-Class Sexuality: Free, Warm and Wild

Posted on 10th December 2013 by ISJ

Recently in this journal Sheila McGregor1 has written about sexuality in pre-class societies and its evolution. Colin Wilson replied arguing that McGregor’s analysis is incorrect.2 In turn, John Molyneux has countered Wilson.3 Most recently, Wilson has responded, and Molyneux countered… Continue Reading →

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Sexuality and social constructionism: A reply to Colin Wilson

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by ISJ

The mere mention of “nature”—in this case principally biology—in relation to human history and the development of women’s oppression—in my International Socialism article1 has produced a frenzy of accusations from certain quarters: John Molyneux’s argument is gender essentialist, transphobic, homophobic,… Continue Reading →

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A Response to John Molyneux on Sexuality

Posted on 1st November 2013 by ISJ

John Molyneux has intervened in a debate concerning the history of sexuality.1 Sexuality has been a subject of serious study only in the last 40 years, the field emerging from the women’s and gay movements of the 1970s. Lesbian and… Continue Reading →

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“The politics of the SWP crisis”-a response

Posted on 18th October 2013 by ISJ

by Jim Wolfreys, Colin Barker, Louis Bayman, Simon Behrman, Anindya Bhattacharyya, Estelle Cooch, Neil Davidson, Hannah Dee, Jacqui Freeman, Amy Gilligan, Mike Gonzalez, Mike Haynes, Jonny Jones, Andy Stone, Dan Swain, Megan Trudell, Alexis Wearmouth and Jennifer Wilkinson As members… Continue Reading →

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Can we move forward? a reply to Wolfreys and others

Posted on 18th October 2013 by ISJ

This journal is committed to acting as a forum for the debates that have developed within the Socialist Workers Party over the past year. The reply that Jim Wolfreys and other members of the International Socialism editorial board have written… Continue Reading →

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