The year 2019 saw the long overdue publication in English of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, its Russian original having been published in the Soviet Union in 1952 (albeit in censored form).1 Its appearance is particularly welcome to the English-speaking reader because… Continue Reading
Environmentalism is a crucial societal reaction to capitalism’s ecocide.1 In all its political guises, it can be interpreted as an expression of revulsion at the wanton destruction and barbarism that capitalist society has unleashed upon nature. However, although its advocates… Continue Reading
In June, the leaders of the G7 countries, meeting at a three day summit in Cornwall, issued a strongly worded statement demanding that China “respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang” and Hong Kong.1 The backers… Continue Reading
In 1969, Balwinder Rana founded the first Asian youth movement in Britain, the Indian Youth Federation of Gravesend in Kent. For two years in the 1970s, he was a full-time national Asian organiser for the Socialist Workers Party. In 1979,… Continue Reading
As United States personnel scrabbled from their embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul in August, it marked the climax of a vile 20 year saga.1 The outcome vindicates those on the left who opposed George Bush’s “War on Terrorism”,… Continue Reading
If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: “A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction.” Even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in… Continue Reading
Introduction This article is long but, even so, it cannot cover all the issues. Its objective is to provide arguments for a response to the current crisis that rejects both the US blockade and the current bureaucratic system in Cuba—an… Continue Reading
The past quarter has seen the death, after a long and rich life, of the Marxist Chanie Rosenberg, who, together with her partner, Tony Cliff, founded the political tradition in which this journal locates itself. Chanie’s contribution to International Socialism… Continue Reading
A review of The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation, Éric Toussaint (Haymarket, 2019), £14.99 Even before the global shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank was warning that a new international debt crisis… Continue Reading
A review of The War Against Disabled People by Ellen Clifford (Zed Books, 2020), £12.99 and Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People by Frances Ryan (Verso Books, 2020), £9.99 According to two surveys by the Office for National… Continue Reading