October’s Science and Society (volume 80, number 4) is a special issue edited by Eduardo Albuquerque and Alex Callinicos entitled “Crises and Transformation of Capitalism: Marx’s Investigations and Contemporary Analysis”. Their reasons for revisiting Marx’s writings on crises are twofold:… Continue Reading
Ever since Marx and Engels proclaimed in The Communist Manifesto that the workers have no country, it has been an elementary and defining premise of Marxist politics that we are internationalists.1 There has never been a more clear proof that… Continue Reading
Lucia Pradella and Thomas Marois (eds), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto Press, 2014), £22 Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall neoliberalism has dominated the global economy. The philosophy of TINA (There is No Alternative) became… Continue Reading
A review of Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (Routledge, 2014), £90 In this pioneering book Lucia Pradella examines Marx’s research notebooks that have been published for the first time in recent… Continue Reading
For the first time in a generation Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union, probably in the autumn of 2016. How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left. Since the… Continue Reading
A Note on Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, “Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel? Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War” (Historical Materialism, 23.2 [2015]) Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have just published a long and wide… Continue Reading
The disappearance in September of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala in the state of Guerrero, after the police had shot six people dead, has thrown Mexico into a deep crisis. Mass… Continue Reading
Video recordings of the day school held by International Socialism on 8th February 2014. Changes in Work and the Working Class Jane Hardy The State of Workplace Organisation Jim Wolfreys Precarity and Poverty Kevin Doogan and Lucia Pradella
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
The latest issue of Historical Materialism (18.1) has a symposium devoted to the late Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing. Two of the contributions stand out. The American Marxist geographer Dick Walker in a lively, wide-ranging piece takes on both… Continue Reading