The latest issue of Critical and Radical Social Work (volume 6, number 2) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth—as the editors suspect, it is possibly the only professional social work journal to mark the occasion. Contributors include Lindsey… Continue Reading
The latest issue of Irish Marxist Review (number 21) features Kieran Allen on the recent campaign to Repeal the 8th Amendment and an interview with People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith, a long-standing activist for abortion rights and prominent supporter… Continue Reading
The winter 2018 issue of US based magazine Jacobin “The Health of Nations” includes an interview with Bernie Sanders, whose campaign for the Democratic Party nomination was supported by its editor Bhaskar Sunkara. In the short interview Sanders discusses his… Continue Reading
The autumn issue of the MENA Solidarity Campaign’s quarterly magazine, Middle East Solidarity features reports from Anne Alexander and Tom Kay on the workers in Mahalla al-Kubra in Egypt who took strike action in August last year, and from Gianni… Continue Reading
The summer issue of Jacobin has an environmental focus. As the editors say, climate change “has to be at the centre of how we mobilise and organise.” It includes two substantial pieces on extractive industries, one on Donald Trump’s secretary… Continue Reading
On the Jacobin website economist Michael Roberts, a regular contributor to this journal, analyses the economic woes on the horizon for a beleaguered Theresa May government. Roberts cites a sharp fallback in labour productivity resulting from lack of business investment… Continue Reading
February’s Monthly Review included a useful article by John Bellamy Foster on Donald Trump and climate change. Foster refers to the climate change denialists filling the ranks of the Trump cabinet and transition team, including Anthony Scaramucci who has said,… Continue Reading
The May issue of Monthly Review is the best for a long time. It contains an outstanding article on Albert Einstein’s Marxist politics (by John J Simon and available at http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/); a very useful piece commemorating the 20th anniversary of… Continue Reading
In the latest issue of Irish Marxist Review (issue 16) Kieran Allen asks why Ireland has become one of the world’s premier tax havens, highlighted earlier this year by the political establishment’s refusal to force Apple to pay 13 billion… Continue Reading
October’s Science and Society (volume 80, number 4) is a special issue edited by Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos entitled “Crises and Transformation of Capitalism: Marx’s Investigations and Contemporary Analysis”. Their reasons for revisiting Marx’s writings on crises are twofold:… Continue Reading