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“No one hears our speeches…”

Posted on 13th May 2025 by International Socialism

A review of Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli, translated by Ben Fowkes (Verso, 2023), £25 In November 1933, in the midst of the Stalinist counter-revolution, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) began to recite a poem in the… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Mandelstam, Russian Revolution, Stalin

A reply to John Mullen on the New Popular Front

Posted on 3rd May 2025 by International Socialism

In the previous issue of International Socialism, John Mullen wrote a reply to my article.1 I had criticised the strategy of the Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front; NFP) in light of the history of the original Popular Front in… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised elections, France, popular front

The comintern: colonialism, nationalism and imperialism

Posted on 3rd May 2025 by International Socialism

In 1919, the Communist International, or Comintern, was founded in high hopes that the Russian Revolution would spread globally.1 The focus was on western Europe with its mass working-class movement. Given the wave of revolutionary fervour, it seemed little was… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Bolsheviks, colonialism, Comintern

Disorder reigns

Posted on 30th April 2025 by International Socialism

In our previous issue, we reflected on the growing political instability, shaped by a multidimensional crisis of capitalism and encompassing shifts in the imperial order and a breakdown of elements of the neoliberal political centre.1 That was written a month… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised far right, Starmer, Trump

Israels Roadmap zum Genozid

Posted on 2nd January 2024 by International Socialism

Zuerst erschienen in International Socialism Journal 181 (Winter 2023/24) Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning Während ich diesen Artikel verfasse, legt Israel den Gazastreifen in Schutt und Asche.1 Die Krankenhäuser funktionieren nicht mehr und die medizinische Versorgung ist insgesamt zusammengebrochen.… Continue Reading →

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Unravelling human history: the rise of class society and women’s oppression

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

A review of Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale (Oxford University Press, 2023), £25 Anthropology, since its inception, has been an ideologically contested ­discipline, and the same is true of both primatology… Continue Reading →

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Learning to swim: revolutionaries, broad parties and elections

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

Twenty years ago, amid the seemingly diminishing shadow of Stalinism, qualitative rightward shifts by social-democratic parties and the emergence of new left-wing parties, there was a lively debate about these new formations and how revolutionaries should relate to them.1 History… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised elections, left reformism, Reformism

Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

In our previous issue we noted the furore created by Robert Brenner and Dylan Riley’s “Seven theses on American politics”, published in New Left Review at the end of 2022. In the July-August issue of New Left Review, Lola Seaton… Continue Reading →

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Bookwatch: challenging the ideology of race

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

Race is once more central to British politics—from Black Lives Matter to the ethnically diverse Tory government’s obsession with deporting refugees, and the rise of a far right claiming that white people are being oppressed by “wokeness”. Several new books… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Anti-racism, Race, Racism

Gone with the Wind, slavery and racism

Posted on 17th April 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Wrath to Come—Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells, Sarah Churchwell (Head of Bloomsbury, 2023), £10.99 Sarah Churchwell’s new book could hardly be timelier. According to a recent YouGov and Economist poll, “More than… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Racism, Slavery, US Civil War

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