The new issue of Historical Materialism (21.2) contains much of interest to readers of International Socialism. Two articles in particular emphasise the actuality of Marx’s Capital. In his 2012 Deutscher Memorial Lecture, Jairus Banaji weaves together Marx’s analysis of financial… Continue Reading
New Left Review continues its heavyweight analysis of the United States. Following Mike Davis’s detailed appreciation of the deeper forces behind Barack Obama’s re-election, Perry Anderson kicks off its latest issue (II/81) with a more long-term historical interpretation.1 Affirming a… Continue Reading
A masterly analysis of the American presidential election by Mike Davis dominates the excellent new issue of New Left Review (II/79).1 The article combines a grasp of the complex demographic and sociological trends behind Barack Obama’s victory with an eye… Continue Reading
International Socialism hosted a weekend school on the topic of Marxism and Revolution Today in late September. The school brought together over 100 people to discuss revolutionary transformations that have occured since 1989 and their implications for the future of… Continue Reading
There are rich pickings in the two issues of Historical Materialism published since we last appeared. In the first (number 20.1) we have the Marxist classical scholar Richard Seaford exploring the parallels between the structure of ancient Greek philosophy and… Continue Reading
New Left Review has produced an excellent spring number (II/74). The lead is a very timely and informative article on contemporary Russia by Tony Woods.1 He emphasises the extent to which the new regime continues to be shaped by the… Continue Reading
Two issues of New Left Review have appeared since this journal was last published. In NLR 72, which came out just before Christmas, the gloom that normally surrounds the Review was briefly dispersed. Stathis Kouvelakis’s incisive and passionate analysis of… Continue Reading
The 2012 issue of Socialist Register is entitled The Crisis and The Left. It contains a number of interesting pieces alongside a symposium on the eurozone crisis. It leads with an article by David Harvey on the urban roots of… Continue Reading
Two issues of New Left Review have appeared since our last issue. In a very timely lead article to NLR 69, Isidro López and Emmanuel Rodriguez scrutinise the variant of capitalism that has come to dominate in Spain. They argue… Continue Reading
Making sense of the Arab revolutions is an urgent priority for the radical left. New Left Review 68 carries two pieces that seek to address this task. The first, by Perry Anderson, has a strange title, “On the Concatenation in… Continue Reading