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When workers fight for our environment

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The role of trade unions and organised labour in preventing catastrophic climate change is a burgeoning field of research.1 Many academic contributions investigate climate policy issues but leave aside discussion of workers’ action.2 In contrast, this article focuses on past… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Strikes, Working class

The Russian Revolution and the British working class

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

The two Russian Revolutions of 1917 inspired socialists and trade unionists across the world. The February Revolution raised the prospect of the overthrow of dictatorship, October the possibility of workers’ revolution and socialism.1 October ripped up the blueprint for socialism… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Russian Revolution, Working class

Brand new, you’re retro

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

A review of Paul Mason, PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (Allen Lane, 2015), £16.99 Some 45 years ago futurologist Alvin Toffler published a breathless evocation of a world transformed. Visions of talking dolphins and a rather disturbing fixation with… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Class, political economy, Working class

The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance

Posted on 18th October 2013 by ISJ

Introduction Since the onset of the economic crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, governments across the world have attempted to implement policies that try to stabilise capitalism. In Britain these attacks have focused on the welfare… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Online only Trade unions, Working class

The enemy’s enemy: Disraeli and working class leadership

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

At the most recent Labour Party conference party leader Ed Miliband caused a certain amount of consternation by praising Benjamin Disraeli (Tory prime minister 1868 and 1874-80), and repeatedly using Disraeli’s most famous phrase “One Nation”.1 Just to make sure… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories, Working class

The impact of the crisis on the working class in Britain

Posted on 9th October 2012 by ISJ

Throughout the crisis sensationalist claims have emerged on both the right and the left that the crisis would lead to a catastrophic and immediate rise in joblessness or, conversely, that it is really not that bad. This article examines exactly… Continue Reading →

Analysis Class, The Economic Crisis, Working class

“Chavs”, class and representation

Posted on 8th October 2012 by ISJ

A review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class (Verso, 2011), £9.99 Owen Jones’s best-selling Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class has deservedly been praised as an accessible and refreshing engagement with the issues of class… Continue Reading →

Analysis Class, Working class

The Egyptian workers’ movement and the 25 January Revolution

Posted on 9th January 2012 by ISJ

“It is midnight in Cairo”, intoned the BBC reporter on the Ten O’ Clock News bulletin, “and still tens of thousands are in Tahrir Square. One chant echoes again and again: ‘Go, go, go’. But this time it is not… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt, Working class

Migration, migrant workers and capitalism

Posted on 31st March 2009 by ISJ

Consider these two scenarios. The first is in Ireland in December 2005 when 100,000 Irish, Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian workers demonstrated together against attempts by bosses to recruit migrant workers on worse pay and conditions than Irish workers. The second… Continue Reading →

Analysis Migrant workers, Working class

Obama and the working class vote

Posted on 2nd January 2009 by ISJ

The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States is tremendous confirmation of the widespread opposition to the wars, racism and economic policies of the Bush administration. The Obama campaign tapped into a deep desire for change among… Continue Reading →

Analysis Barack Obama, USA, Working class

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New Resources

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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
Now online: Yuri Prasad and Esme Choonara’s article “What’s wrong with privilege theory?” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: John Molyneux’s article “In Defence of Party Building” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Sheila McGregor’s article on social reproduction theory has now been translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
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.
Online only “How to stop the tanks” by Ron Margulies on the attempted coup in Turkey
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
Now online, Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) writing in International Socialism in 1987
Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
Videos of the International Socialism conference on Marxism and nature featuring Ted Benton and Ian Angus
Videos and transcript of the International Socialism debate on Syriza and Socialist Strategy with Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos
Online only: Vincent Sung analyses the roots of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests here
Online only: Bob Light remembers the 1974-5 Portuguese revolution
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Work, Class and Resistance’ with Jane Hardy, Kevin Doogan, Lucia Pradella and Jim Wolfreys
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others
Video: International Socialism seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander
“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser
Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy
Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy
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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