A review of China: Rise, Repression and Resistance by Adrian Budd (Bookmarks, 2024), £10 What is the history, politics and nature of the Chinese regime? Adrian Budd’s book, China: Rise, Repression and Resistance provides an excellent and in-depth answer. Regularly,… Continue Reading
Editor’s introduction Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was among the most insightful theorists of the International Socialist tradition and a former editor of this journal.1 His early work focused on an analysis of capitalism during its sustained expansion in the decades following… 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
A review of Paul Le Blanc, Leon Trotsky (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives series, 2015), £11.99 Paul Le Blanc faced a daunting challenge when he agreed to write a book about Leon Trotsky and his life in exile for the Critical… Continue Reading