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
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
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
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
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
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
As noted elsewhere in this issue, during the past quarter we have lost two towering figures who have each been important in developing the Marxist tradition with which this journal is associated: Mike Davis and John Molyneux. Along with the… Continue Reading
Analysis Trussonomics confronts the crisis Joseph Choonara Striking back: is the class struggle reviving in Britain? Mark Thomas Interview: Sri Lanka’s stalled revolt Ahilan Kadirgamar A supreme injustice: the battle for abortion rights in the United States Judith Orr Interview:… Continue Reading
As noted in our analysis piece, New Left Review is one of the few socialist journals that shares a similar outlook to International Socialism on the conflict in Ukraine. This is reflected in its excellent double issue, which contains articles… Continue Reading
A review of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (Routledge, 2021), £120 The need to understand how and why the populist far right has been so successful has never been more urgent. The victories for… Continue Reading