Introduction Since the onset of the economic crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, governments across the world have attempted to implement policies that try to stabilise capitalism. In Britain these attacks have focused on the welfare… Continue Reading
This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the “German October”, the aborted socialist revolution that came to mark the end of the post-war revolutionary wave that had washed away monarchical government from most of Central and Eastern Europe. For a… Continue Reading
Video recordings of the weekend school held by International Socialism on 22 and 23 September 2012. Introductory themes Neil Davidson and Alex Callinicos Discussion and responses The Arab revolutions Anne Alexander and Dalia Mostafa Discussion and responses Eastern Europe 1989… Continue Reading
International Socialism readers may be interested in the following videos, taken from a meeting held in London on 24 May with Charlie Kimber (regular ISJ contributor and national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party) and Giorgos Pittas (journalist on Greek… Continue Reading
The following is a contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal. The author is the president of the GMB Sex workers & Adult Entertainment branch. I have read with attention… Continue Reading
The following statement was issued by the Coordination of the International Socialist Tendency on 13 October 2008. The extraordinary waves of panic that have swept through global financial markets in the past few weeks have filled ordinary working people around… Continue Reading
For the past two or more years, especially since the September 2006 coup, Thai society has been hypnotised into forgetting about the real social and political issues. Instead, the whole of society and, most tragically, the social movements have been… Continue Reading
A resounding defeat for Greek Cypriot Nationalism and Neoliberalism The crucial presidential runoff in (Southern) Cyprus on Sunday 24 February 2008 brought to office Dimitris Christofias the Communist Party leader who clinched 53 percent of the vote in an unprecedented… Continue Reading
Are Islamist movements ‘radical’ or ‘ultra-conservative’? A so-called “Islamic” party has just been elected with nearly 50% of the vote in Turkey. It is in no way “ultra-conservative”. It is, of course, conservative on such issues as the economy, the… Continue Reading
The following interview was conducted with Orlando Chirino, national organiser of the UNT union federation in Venezuela and leader of C-Cura—the United Autonomous Revolutionary Class current—within the federation. It came after Chavez proposed the formation of a new unified Venezuelan… Continue Reading