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Chris Harman

Chris Harman and the critique of political economy

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Chris Harman died suddenly on the night of 6-7 November 2009, on the eve of his 67th birthday. He had been serving his third stint as editor of International Socialism. I took over editing this journal after Chris’s death. Ten… Continue Reading →

Article Chris Harman, Economics, political economy

Trotsky and the New Stalinism

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

In 1967 New Left Review (NLR) published an article called “Trotsky’s Marxism” by Nicolas Krassó.1 A former pupil of the great Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács, Krassó (1930-86) played an active role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and helped to… Continue Reading →

Article Chris Harman, Leon Trotsky

Trotsky and the New Stalinism: Introduction by John Rudge

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A new introduction to Chris Harman’s 1967 article “Trotsky and the New Stalinism”, published in issue 160. 2018 is certainly a year of important anniversaries.1 While the British Establishment is remembering a sanitised version of the end of the First… Continue Reading →

Online only Chris Harman, Trotsky

The Prague Spring of 1968: a glimpse of socialism?

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

Fifty years ago Russian tanks rolled across the Czechoslovakian border. They brought the upheavals of 1968, that year of global revolt against war, oppression and capitalism, into the heart of officially “socialist” Eastern Europe.1 Students took to the streets, fought… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Chris Harman, Czechoslovakia, state capitalism

Chris Harman, 1968 and the historic Open Letter to the Polish Communist Party

Posted on 19th April 2018 by Camilla

1968—a year, but also a mood, an expectation, a world ­bursting with a promise of revolutionary possibility: a shimmering slice of historical time that precedes 1968 and outlasts it. Commemorating its 50th anniversary properly this year, 2018, must itself be… Continue Reading →

Article 1986, Chris Harman, Poland

Zombie Capitalism and the origin of crises

Posted on 5th January 2010 by ISJ

This is the second in a series of responses to Chris Harman’s last book, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. It was written shortly before Chris’s death. The great merit of Zombie Capitalism is that it outlines… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Chris Harman

Another side of Chris Harman

Posted on 17th December 2009 by ISJ

For those of us who joined the Socialist Workers Party from the mid-1990s—too late to have worked closely with Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas, Paul Foot or Mike Kidron—Chris Harman played a special role. For one thing, he seemed more than… Continue Reading →

Analysis Chris Harman

Chris Harman: a life in the struggle

Posted on 16th December 2009 by ISJ

I first met Chris Harman in the spring of 1963, in Peter Sedgwick’s attic.1 We had gone to Liverpool for a meeting of the Young Socialist paper Young Guard. There had been a danger that control of the paper would… Continue Reading →

Analysis Chris Harman

Pinning the blame on the system

Posted on 30th September 2009 by ISJ

This is the first in a series of responses to Chris Harman’s latest book, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. When Chris Harman began work on Zombie Capitalism in late 2006 his goal was to criticise what… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Book reviews Chris Harman, Economics
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