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The United States

Carl Cowl: a story of defeat and survival

Posted on 14th January 2023 by International Socialism

In June 1952, Grace Carlson, one of the staunchest members of the United States’ Socialist Workers Party (SWP), tidied her desk in the offices of the organisation’s Militant newspaper and left the building.1 She had been the only woman defendant… Continue Reading →

Article Comintern, The United States, US Trotskyism

After the US midterm elections: what’s changed?

Posted on 14th January 2023 by International Socialism

Despite stronger than expected showings by Democrats in November’s midterm elections, the Republican Party has won control of the United States House of Representatives with a narrow majority.1 The Democrats did pick up one seat in the Senate but then… Continue Reading →

Article Biden, democrats, economic crisis, republicans, The United States

A supreme injustice: the battle for abortion rights in the United States

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

The richest and most powerful nation on the globe set the clock back on women’s reproductive rights by half a century on 24 June 2022. This was the day the United States Supreme Court reversed its ruling on the landmark… Continue Reading →

Article abortion rights, The United States, United States, USA, women's liberation, Women's oppression

More than a moment: what did Black Lives Matter achieve?

Posted on 26th June 2022 by International Socialism

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 was arguably the most inspiring movement against racism in recent decades.1 It represented the largest social movement in the history of the United States and forced discussions about racism onto the agenda… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, The United States, United States

The Trump phenomenon

Posted on 13th July 2020 by International Socialism

A review of Anonymous, A Warning, Little, Brown (2019), £14.99, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, Bloomsbury (2020), £20. No president of the United States has had more written about… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Donald Trump, populism, The United States

Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Socialists of America and the new US left

Posted on 13th July 2020 by International Socialism

Bernie Sanders’s two presidential election campaigns, in tandem with the resurgence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), have captured political attention in the United States and beyond. The excitement inspired by the growth of this new left movement in… Continue Reading →

Article Donald Trump, left reformism, The United States

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

The Christian right, the Republican Party and Donald Trump

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

Donald Trump was elected to the United States presidency in 2016 by the votes of the Christian right. Some 81 percent of evangelical Christians, who made up a third of the total electorate, voted for him. Not only did a… Continue Reading →

Article Donald Trump, Religion, the far right, The United States, United States

Battle lines drawn

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Kim Moody, On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket, 2017), £15.99 The centrality of the working class to capitalism through the production of surplus value and consequently its power ultimately to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Class, The United States

The story of the story of Stagger Lee

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

This is the story of how a bar-room shooting involving one “Stag” Lee Shelton became one of the most prominent narratives of 20th century popular culture in America: William Lyons, 25, colored, a levee hand, living at 1410 Morgan Street,… Continue Reading →

Article Anti-racism, folk music, The United States

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