The question of how to characterise the societies that belonged to the Eastern Bloc between 1948 and 1989—Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia—has been contentious since they emerged after the Second World War.1 This remains the… Continue Reading
In the past two decades, China has emerged as the major challenger to the United States’s leading position in the global economy and, to a lesser extent, as the world’s foremost military power. Compared to the global reach of the… Continue Reading
A socialist ecological assessment of the Anthropocene reveals a fundamental pattern for biodiversity; living nature, from the virus to the whale, wraps itself around human social forms.1 Our long march from localised groups of apes to a globalised social humanity… Continue Reading
As 2020 began, a struggle by Indigenous Wet’suwet’en people against attempts to push a natural gas pipeline through their unceded territory sparked a spectacular wave of solidarity across Canada.1 For almost a month, freight and passenger railway traffic ground to… Continue Reading
A review of Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It, David Renton (Routledge, 2021), £19.99 Under the rather haughty title Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From… Continue Reading
Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 142—https://isj.org.uk/whats-wrong-with-privilege-theory/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Können Menschen, die selbst nicht unterdrückt sind, Teil des Kampfs für Befreiung sein? Sind alle Weißen mitschuldig an Rassismus oder können sie im Kampf für die… Continue Reading
International Socialism 160, London, Herbst 2018 aus dem Englischen Rosemarie Nünning. In Universitätskreisen und in der radikalen Linken war die Diskussion über Unterdrückung lange Zeit beherrscht von der Privilegien- und der Intersektionalitätstheorie.1 Mit der Niederlage der Arbeiterbewegung Ende der 1970er… Continue Reading
Shortly before our last issue appeared in early October, Nick Howard died. He had just turned 83. A longstanding and much loved member of the Socialist Workers Party in Sheffield, Nick was involved in International Socialism from the start. He… Continue Reading
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1906 Muslim League founded 1940 Muslim League adopts principle of a separate nation for India’s Muslims 1947 India partitioned creating East and West Pakistan. Around one million die in communal violence, millions more are displaced 1948 Pakistan army invades Balochistan.… Continue Reading