Issue 145—winter 2015
Highlights include:
The challenge of Podemos
by Manel Barriere, Andy Durgan and Sam Robson
Dances with Wolves: Turkey and the Kurds
by Ron Margulies
ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
by Anne Alexander
An end to isolation? Palestine and the Arab revolutions
by Philip Marfleet
Issue 144—autumn 2014
Highlights include:
The case of the disappearing Lenin
by Kevin Corr and Gareth Jenkins
Ukraine: imperialism, war and the left
by Rob Ferguson
South Africa after Marikana
by Charlie Kimber
Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation
by Nicola Ginsburgh
Issue 143—summer 2014
Highlights include:
UKIP and immigration
by Andy Jones
The changing history of the First World War
by Megan Trudell
The great schism: socialism and war in 1914
by Paul Blackledge
Thunder on the left
by Alex Callinicos
Issue 142—spring 2014
Highlights include:
The SWP and the Great Miners’ Strike
by Dave Hayes
The rank and file and the trade union bureaucracy
by Ralph Darlington
What’s wrong with privilege theory?
by Esme Choonara and Yuri Prasad
Environmentalism in crisis
by Ieuan Churchill
Issue 141—winter 2014
Highlights include:
Can the Tories abolish the welfare state
by Iain Ferguson
Transgender oppression and resistance
by Laura Miles
Raymond Challinor’s Marxism
by Christian Hogsbjerg
Dialectics, nature and the dialectics of nature
by Camilla Royle
Issue 140—Autumn 2013
Highlights include:
Spectres of counter-revolution
by Alex Callinicos
From global slump to long depression
by Michael Roberts
The politics of the SWP crisis
by Charlie Kimber and Alex Callinicos
Michael Gove
by Nick Grant
Agamben in perspective
by Simon Behrman
Online only articles include:
The KPD and the crisis of world revolution
by Yusuf Timms
The working class, trade unions and the left
by Sean Vernell
A response to Kimber and Callinicos
by Jim Wolfreys and others
Contributions to a debate on sexuality and pre-class societies
by Colin Wilson, John Molyneux and Terry Sullivan
Issue 139—Summer 2013
Highlights include:
Where is the British left going?
by Alex Callinicos
Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
by Paul Blackledge
Privatising the NHS
by Jeni Gosling
What gender does
by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale
Sexuality in pre-class society
by Colin Wilson
The neoliberal era in Britain: historical developments and current perspectives
by Neil Davidson
Issue 138—Spring 2013
Highlights include:
Economic blues
by Alex Callinicos
Imperialism and instability in East Asia today
by Ha-young Kim
The class struggles in Europe
by Joseph Choonara
From mobilisation to resistance: Portugal’s struggle against austerity
by Catarina Príncipe
Marxism and women’s oppression today
by Sheila McGregor
Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder revisited
by John Rose
Issue 137—Winter 2013
Highlights include:
British sounds
by Alex Callinicos
Why Obama won
by Meqan Trudell
Interview: South Africa after Marikana
by Peter Alexander
“Never going back”: Egypt’s continuing revolution
by Philip Marfleet
Latin America: the tide is turning
by Mike Gonzalez
New divisions of labour in the global economy
by Jane Hardy
Issue 136—Autumn 2012
Highlights include:
Narrowing the bounds of the possible: the US election
by Alex Callinicos
The crisis of black leadership
by Esme Choonara and Yuri Prasad
Democracy: fact and fetish
by Donny Gluckstein
Back to “normality”? US foreign policy under Obama
by Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry and Robert Knox
In perspective: John Holloway
by Paul Blackledge
“Chavs”, class and representation
by Nicola Ginsburgh
Issue 135—Summer 2012
Highlights include:
The second coming of the radical left
by Alex Callinicos
France after Sarkozy
by Jim Wolfreys
The life and times of Occupy Wall Street
by Jen Roesch
The Rochdale sexual abuse scandal
by Judith Orr
Resistance: the best Olympic spirit
by Dave Zirin and Gareth Edwards
The Syrian Crucible
by Jonathan Maunder
The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund
by Sai Englert
Issue 134—Spring 2012
Highlights include:
Rumours of crisis, revolution and war
by Alex Callinicos
Greece: the struggle radicalises
by Panos Garganas
The politics of the Scottish independence referendum
by Neil Davidson
The shock of the new: anti-capitalism and the crisis
by Jonny Jones
“Most humble day”: the Murdoch empire on the defensive
by John Newsinger
The growth paradigm: a critique
by Gareth Dale
Housing: as it is, and as it might be
by David Renton
Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary life
by Leo Zeilig
The late Christopher Hitchens
by Richard Seymour
Race and class in the US
by Nicola Ginsburgh
Issue 133—Winter 2012
Highlights include:
The crisis wears on
by Alex Callinicos
The rebirth of our power? After the 30 November mass strike
by Charlie Kimber
The Occupy movement and class politics in the US
by Megan Trudell
Interview: Working people have no interest in saving the euro
by Costas Lapavitsas
China’s capitalism and the crisis
by Jane Hardy and Adrian Budd
The Egyptian workers’ movement and the 25 January Revolution
by Anne Alexander
Libya at the crossroads
by Simon Assaf
Revolution against “progress”: the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia
by Jeffery R Webber
“Take that, Maynard G Krebs!”: the Beat Generation.
by Adam Marks
Engels’s contradictions: a reply to Tristram Hunt
by Roland Boer
Issue 132—Autumn 2011
Highlights include:
The crisis of our time
by Alex Callinicos
“No one represents us”: the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
by Andy Durgan and Joel Sans
August 2011: a riot of our own
by Jonny Jones
Queer theory and politics
by Colin Wilson
Global cities, global workers in the 21st century
by Mike Haynes
Behind and beyond the crisis
by Guglielmo Carchedi
Once more (with feeling) on Marxist accounts of the crisis
by Joseph Choonara
Tony Cliff rediscovered
by Nigel Harris and Christian Høgsbjerg
Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution
by Michael Morris
Issue 131—Summer 2011
Highlights include:
Unsteady as she goes
by Alex Callinicos
Britain’s trade unions: the shape of things to come
by Martin Smith
The Tories: an anatomy
by Richard Seymour
The growing social soul of Egypt’s democratic revolution
by Anne Alexander
Culture and multiculturalism
by Gareth Jenkins
Geert Wilders and the rise of the new radical right
by Maina van der Zwan
The Great Unrest and a Welsh town
by Tim Evans
The London Crowd, 1760-2010
by Keith Flett
Issue 130—Spring 2011
Highlights include:
The return of the Arab revolution
by Alex Callinicos
Tunisia: The people’s revolution
by Chamseddine Mnasri
Act One of the Egyptian Revolution
by Philip Marfleet
Social Media and Social Movements
by Jonny Jones
The student movement today
by Dan Swain
The origins of the united front policy
by John Riddell
The Tories, Eton and private schools
by David Renton
The London Crowd, 1760-2010
by Keith Flett
Issue 129—Winter 2011
Highlights include:
The student revolt and the crisis
by Alex Callinicos and Jonny Jones
Mad as hatters? The Tea Party movement in the US
by Megan Trudell
Police killings and the law
by Simon Behrman
Labourism and socialism: Ralph Miliband’s Marxism
by Paul Blackledge
True crime stories: some New Labour memoirs
by John Newsinger
Marxism and disability
by by Roddy Slorach
Decoding capitalism
by Joseph Choonara
What’s wrong with school history?
by Andrew Stone
Why we should be sceptical of climate sceptics
by Suzanne Jeffery
Tony Cliff’s Lenin and the Russian Revolution
by John Rose
Issue 128—Autumn 2010
Highlights include:
Palestine, Israel and the boycott
by Tom Hickey and Phil Marfleet
Hamas, Gaza and the blockade
by Jamie Allinson
The euro crisis and the future of EU integration
by by Chrsitakis Georgiou
Crisis and Recession in central and Eastern Europe
by Jane Hardy
The Ironies of Indian Maoism
by Jairus Banaji
Michelangelo and Human Emancipation
by John Molyneux
From deflected permanent revolution to the law of uneven and combined development
by Neil Davidson
Issue 127—Summer 2010
Highlights include:
Marxism and feminism today
by Judith Orr
Zionism, Socialism and Nationalism
by Shlomo Sand and John Rose
Reviving the spirit of equality
by Richard G Wilkinson and Iain Ferguson
1937: the year of the sitdown
by John Newsinger
Reassessing the permanent arms economy
by Gonzalo Pozo
Daniel Bensaid: 1946-2010
by Sebastian Budgen
Empire and literature
by Gareth Jenkins
Issue 126—Spring 2010
Highlights include:
The changing face of racism
by Richard Seymour
Climate politics after Copenhagen
by Jonathan Neale
C L R James and the Black Jacobins
by Christian Høgsbjerg
25 years after the Great Miners’ Strike
by Jack Robertson
Tony Cliff: Deflected permanent revolution in Africa
by Leo Zeilig
Rethinking imperialism: past, present and future
by Gilbert Achcar
Conceding the Russian Revolution to Liberals
by Kevin Murphy
Issue 125—Winter 2010
Highlights include:
Snapshots of struggle
Ireland: From shock therapy to resistance
by Kieran Allen
France: From economic to political struggles
by Denis Godard
Opposition and opportunity in Germany
by Stefan Bornost
Greece: The eye of the storm?
by Panos Garganas
Sketches of Spain
by Mike Eaude
Chris Harman 1942-2009
A life in the struggle
by Ian Birchall
Althusser: The emperor has no clothes
by Chris Harman
Another side of Chris Harman
by Joseph Choonara
Not all Marxism is dogmatism
by Chris Harman
Zombie Capitalism and the origin of crises
by Guglielmo Carchedi
A whiff of tear gas
by Andy Durgan
Marxism and anarchism
by Paul Blackledge
The sex work debate
by Jane Pritchard
Obama’s first year
by Megan Trudell
Honduras is not just another banana republic
by Mike Gonzalez
Issue 124—Autumn 2009
Highlights include:
1989: How the wall was toppled
A short autumn of utopia: the East German revolution of 1989
by Gareth Dale
End of the liberal dream: Hungary since 1989
by Adam Fabry
Rupture and Revolt in Iran
by Peyman Jafari
Interview: Will the sparks flare up?
by Michael Bradley and Charlie Kimber
Pinning the blame on the system
by Andrew Kliman
On party democracy
by John Molyneux
Issue 123—Summer 2009
Highlights include:
How do we stop the BNP?
by Martin Smith
Marxists accounts of the crisis
by Joseph Choonara
Gandhi: the man behind the myths
by Talat Ahmed
Capitalism, health and medicine
by Mike Haynes
The full story: Marxism and religion
by Roland Boer
Issue 122—Spring 2009
Highlights include:
In the balance: The class struggle in Britain
by Charlie Kimber
Migration, migrant workers and capitalism
by Jane Hardy
Culture and socialism
by Terry Eagleton
1934: Year of the fightback
by John Newsinger
Social work after “Baby P”
by Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette
Issue 121—Winter 2009
Highlights include:
The slump of the 1930s and the crisis today
by Chris Harman
Myths of globalisation and the new economy
by Bill Dunn
Viewpoints on the European radical left
by Francois Sabado and Panos Garganas
Obama and the working class vote
by Megan Trudell
How classical music lost its audience
by Simon Behrman
Trotsky on race in the US
by Christian Hogsbjerg
Chavez ten years on
by Mike Gonzalez
Issue 120—Autumn 2008
Highlights include:
Afghanistan: the case against the “good war”
by Jonathan Neale
Where is the radical left going?
by Alex Callinicos
Marxism and ethics
by Paul Blackledge
Crisis at the centre of the system
by Andrew Kliman
A fiftieth birthday for Marxist theory
by Ian Birchall
Issue 119—Summer 2008
Highlights include:
More than opium: Marxism and religion
by John Molyneux
Behind the world food crisis
by Carlo Moreli
China, Tibet and the left
by Charlie Hore
Zimbabwe: imperialism, hypocrisy and fake nationalism
by Leo Zeilig
Marx, Leon and the Jewish Question
by John Rose
Issue 118—Spring 2008
Highlights include:
1968: an extraordinary year
France: May through the decades
by Matt Perry
Martin Luther King in Memphis
by Brian Kelly
Tony Cliff in 1968
by Ian Birchall
Egypt’s strike wave
by Anne Alexander, Mustafa Bassiouny and Omar Said
China’s growth pains
by Charlie Hore
Foucault: friend of foe of the left
by Colin Wilson
Analysing Imperial China
by Simon Gilbert
When old Labour went to war
by John Newsinger
Issue 117—Winter 2008
Highlights include:
Costas Lapavitsas interviewed on the credit crunch
Theorising neoliberalism
by Chris Harman
Capitalism and happiness
by Iain Ferguson
The African working class and the planet of slums
by Leo Zeilig and Claire Ceruti
25 Years of Imagined Communities
by Neil Davidson
Shakespeare, Marxism and literary history
by Joe Hartney
Issue 116—Autumn 2007
Highlights include:
The return of the working class: Egypt’s strike wave and South Africa’s struggles
by Sameh Naguib and Claire Ceruti
Can we write a history of the Russian Revolution
by Kevin Murphy
The Return of Russian Power?
by Mike Haynes
Germany’s political earthquake
by Stefan Bornost
Gordon Childe and Marxist archaeology
by Neil Faulkner
Interview with Mike Gonzalez: Venezuela’s tensions
Corporations and climate change
by Gareth Dale
The Dutch Revolt
by Pepijn Brandon
Realism and Film
by Mike Wayne
Issue 115—Summer 2007
Highlights include:
Robin Blackburn interview: What really ended slavery?
Brown’s Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism
by John Newsinger
José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin America’s forgotten Marxist
by Mike Gonzalez
At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today
by Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham
France at the crossroads
by Antoine Boulangé and Jim Wolfreys
Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor
The rate of profit and the world today
by Chris Harman
Issue 114—Spring 2007
Highlights include:
Antonio Gramsci’s Revolutionary Legacy
Megan Trudell on 1919-20, the Turin Years
Chris Bambery on Hegemony and Revolutionary Strategy
Chris Harman on The Prison Notebooks
Adrain Budd on Gramsci and International Relations
LGBT Politics and Sexual Liberation
by Colin Wilson
The Big Brother Phenomena
by Colin Sparks
Sami Ramadani interviewed on Iraq
Northern Irelands New Troubles
by Goretti Horgan and Kieran Allen
Scottish Independence
by Neil Davidson
Issue 113 – Winter 2007
Highlights include:
The shape of the working class
by Martin Smith
A history of Muslim workers in Britain
by Hassan Mahamdallie
Ken Livingstone—the last reformist?
by Charlie Kimber
Contortions of the pro-war “left”
by Richard Seymour
The return of strategy
by Daniel Bensaid
Issue 112 – Autumn 2006
Highlights include:
Hizbollah and the war Israel lost
by Chris Harman
1956: Hungary’s revolution
by Mike Haynes
Suez and the high tide of Arab nationalism
by Anne Alexander
The New Left’s renewal of Marxism
by Paul Blackledge
CLR James: Revolutionary as artist
by Christian Høgsbjerg
Issue 111 – Summer 2006
Highlights include:
France’s extraordinary movementAnnick Coupé, Marie Perrin
Italy’s uncertain victoryDanilo Corradi, Brune Seban, Barbara de Vivo
Germany’s strategy debateVolkhard Mosler, Christine Buchholz, Maya Mosler
The hidden history of US radicalismMegan Trudell
Cuba behind the mythsChris Harman
What was done: rediscovering LeninPaul Blackledge
Debate: the origins of capitalismChris Harman and Robert Brenner
Seventy years after the Spanish Civil WarAndy Durgan
Issue 110 – Spring 2006
Highlights include:
Venezuela: movement and governmentRoland Denis
The Bolsheviks and IslamDave Crouch
Marxism and terrorismGareth Jenkins
Enlightenment and anti-capitalismNeil Davidson
Pakistan: on the edge of instabilityGeoff Brown
Mao out of contextCharlie Hore
Issue 109 – Winter 2006
Highlights include:
France in revoltJim Wolfreys
The politics of the banlieuesAbdellali Hajjat
Dossier: Reform and revolution in VenezuelaMarta Harnecker, José Vincente Rangel, Stalin Perez Borges, Miguel Angel Hernandez and Emilio Bastidas
Iraq: resistance and sectarianismInterviews with Sami Ramadani and Haifa Zangana
China’s economy and Europe’s crisisChris Harman
Anti-capitalism and the return of politicsChris Nineham
Gramsci and revolution: a necessary clarificationRoberto Robaina
Issue 108 – Autumn 2005
Highlights include:
France: the triumph of the politicalStathis Kouvélakis
Germany: the rise of the leftStefan Bornost
A note on the Dutch referendumPepijn Brandon
Poland and the new EuropeJane Hardy and Andy Zebrowski
25 years ago: the rise of SolidarnoscColin Barker
Respect: the view from belowIan Taylor
Bolivia: the rising of the peopleMike Gonzalez
The left and the crisis of the Lula governmentPaulo Trinidade, Rui Polly and Sérgio Dominguez
Imperialism and global political economyAlex Callinicos
Issue 107 – Summer 2005
Highlights include:
The strangling of Africa
Redesigning the debt trap
Gavin Capps
Aid, governance and exploitation
Charlie Kimber
Trading on poverty
Jacob Middleton
On the road to catastrophe: capitalism and climate change
Paul McGarr
Sartre’s century
Ian Birchall
Issue 106 – Spring 2005
Highlights include:
The elections and the resistance in Iraq
Anne Alexander and Simon Assaf
The changing structure of the British economy
Jane Hardy
Can we change the world without taking power?
A debate between John Holloway and Alex Callinicos World Social Forum, 27 January 2005
Issue 105 – Winter 2005
Highlights include:
Iraq: The rise of the resistance
by Anne Alexander and Simon Assaf
Workers, women and the Islamic republic
An interview with Elaheh Rostami Povey
The birth of our politics: Marxists and the 1905 Revolution
by Mark Thomas
Issue 104 – Autumn 2004
Highlights include:
Spontaneity, strategy and politics
by Chris Harman
NGOs: enemies or allies?
by Ji Giles Ungpakorn
Venezuela: many steps to come
by Mike Gonzalez
Issue 103 – Summer 2004
Highlights include:
China’s century?
by Charlie Hore
India after the elections: a rough guide
by Chris Harman
A band of brothers?
by Michael Bradley
Issue 102 – Spring 2004
Highlights include:
The hijab, racism and the state
by Antoine Boulangé
Globalisation against development
by François Chesnais
The rise of capitalism
by Chris Harman
Issue 101 – Winter 2003
Highlights include:
Women’s liberation today
by Lindsey German
The politics of food
by Carlo Morelli
Issue 100 — Autumn 2003
Highlights include:
Socialism in the 21st century
by John Rees
Global and local echoes of the anti-war movement: a British Muslim perspective
by Salma Yaqoob
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