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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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