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
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
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
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
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
If the United States remains the command centre of global capitalism, a multiplicity of crises has been flashing up on its screens in the past few months. Let’s consider them in ascending order of importance from the perspective of US… Continue Reading
During the last two to three years tension and conflict have been increasing in East Asia.1 In 2012 this tendency was evident in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the area round the Korean peninsula. Let’s look… Continue Reading
A review of Alex Callinicos, Imperialism and Global Political Economy (Polity, 2009), £17.99 “Knowing Empire is part of fighting it”: this short statement concludes this remarkable 280-page book. It is certainly one of the most outstanding works in Alex Callinicos’s… Continue Reading
The media has been full of talk of a “new Cold War” since the brief war between Russia and Georgia. It is more accurate to talk of the latest episode of the “war on terror”—that is, of the US’s attempt… Continue Reading
One striking feature of Zimbabwe’s crisis has been the vocal support of the British and US governments for “democratic change”. In April, George Bush’s assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Jendayi Frazer, undertook a whirlwind “democracy tour” to support… Continue Reading