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Imperialism: novel forms, old problems

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

A review of John Smith, Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £18.99 The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he… Continue Reading →

Book reviews imperialism

The British Empire and the First World War: the colonial experience

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

The First World War is still widely perceived to be a white man’s war based on the Western front. Popular images of brave young white men dying for king and country dominate museum exhibits. But some 4 million non-white men… Continue Reading →

Article British Empire, First World War, imperialism

Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain’s… Continue Reading →

Article imperialism

ISIS, imperialism and the war in Syria

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

For the fourth time in less than a decade and half the UK is at war, and once again the vast majority of the victims will be Muslims. Bolstered by the votes and voices of the Labour right, on 2… Continue Reading →

Analysis imperialism, ISIS, Middle East, Syria

Resisting the long war

Posted on 22nd December 2015 by Camilla

In May 1970 a group of prominent Harvard academics with considerable government experience, led by the game theorist Thomas Schelling, went to the White House to meet their ex-colleague, Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser to president Richard Nixon. They… Continue Reading →

Analysis imperialism, Stop the War

Marx’s research notebooks and globalisation

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

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 →

Book reviews imperialism, Karl Marx

Hearts and minds: The myth and reality of British counter-insurgency

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Up until ten years ago the British army boasted of an expertise in counter-insurgency warfare from which other armies could learn. Whereas the French had suffered humiliating defeats in Indo-China and Algeria and the United States had been driven out… Continue Reading →

Article counter-insurgency, imperialism

Anti-Bukharin

Posted on 21st July 2015 by Camilla

A reply to Alex Callinicos: “Fighting the Last War” Both Andreas Bieler and me want to thank Alex Callinicos for his engagement and reply “Fighting the Last War” to our article, “Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of… Continue Reading →

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Fighting the Last War

Posted on 26th June 2015 by Camilla

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 →

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Ukraine: imperialism, war and the left

Posted on 10th October 2014 by ISJ

And when war is waged between two groups of predators and oppressors merely for division of the spoils of plunder, merely to see who will strangle more peoples, who will grab more, the question as to who began this war,… Continue Reading →

Analysis imperialism, Russia, Ukraine

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Tony Phillips’s “What can we learn from Kautsky today?” translated into German
Judy Cox’s “How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Joseph Choonara’s “Socialism in a time of pandemics” translated into German – thanks to David Albrich
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Now online: Brazil: how big a defeat? Interview with Valério Arcary
Now online: Rosemarie Nünning on the history of abortion law in Germany – Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code
New to our translations page: Lise Vogel und die Politik der Frauenbefreiung (Nicola Ginsburgh on Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation in German)
Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.
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Egyptian Revolution timeline
International Socialism has covered events in Egypt from the strike waves that led up to the revolution, the events of 2011 themselves and the situation since: here is a timeline of key articles
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Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
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“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser
Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy
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Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)
The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)
A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)
Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)
Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)
The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)
Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)
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