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Labour’s “Special Relationship” with the US

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

The “special relationship”, declared prime minister Keir Starmer in his first official visit to White House in July 2024, was “stronger now than ever”.1The meeting in Washington was a triumph for him. It was the reward for shadowing dutifully the… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Reformism, United States

George Galloway: no longer a leftist

Posted on 15th June 2024 by International Socialism

George Galloway, running as MP for Rochdale and leader of the Workers’ Party of Britain (WPB), is one of the most high-profile individuals involved in the pro-Palestinian challenge to the Labour Party at the 2024 general election.1 That is why… Continue Reading →

Article george galloway, Labour Party, Palestine

War and resistance—in Palestine and beyond

Posted on 12th June 2024 by International Socialism

Our previous issue of International Socialism went to press carrying the banner headline, “Globalise the Intifada!”.1 By the time it returned from the printers, student encampments in solidarity with Gaza had sprung up in universities in the United States, a… Continue Reading →

Analysis elections, Labour Party, Palestine

Gaza: a politics of carnage and chaos

Posted on 1st April 2024 by International Socialism

The next stage in Israel’s brutal war on Gaza hung in the balance as International Socialism went to press.1 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved plans for a ground offensive against the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, where 1.5… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, Palestine, Tories

The ebb and flow of Britain’s strike wave

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

The Conservative administration of Rishi Sunak, the fourth Tory prime minister in as many years, appeared to be limping into oblivion as our autumn issue went to press.1 A piece by the chief political commentator at the Financial Times compares… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, political economy, Strikes

Knight shift: Keir Starmer and Labour’s move to the right

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, Oliver Eagleton (Verso), £12.99 Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown—a roll call of past Labour Party prime ministers hardly conjures up hope for… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Labour Party, Reformism

In the middle of the road: Fenner Brockway, the Independent Labour Party and the class struggle

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

On 17 July 1930, Archibald Fenner Brockway, a leading member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), stood on the floor of the House of Commons and attempted to raise the question of the massive scale of ­repression unleashed in India… Continue Reading →

Article centrism, Independent Labour Party, Labour Party

Revolutionary syndicalism and The Miners’ Next Step

Posted on 26th July 2021 by International Socialism

The Miners’ Next Step and the movement it created throughout the coalfield gave me the inspiration I had been looking for… The conception of working-class power was far more realistic to me than the idea of merely fighting for seats… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Labour Party, trade unionism

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by International Socialism

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Universal Basic Income: reasons to be cheerful or no go central?

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a useful… Continue Reading →

Article austerity, Britain, Labour Party

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