Environment Origins and delusions of green growth By Gareth DaleIt is difficult not to admire the conjurors who dreamt up “green growth” and the “green economy,” the latest brand labels of eco-concerned capitalism. These projects appear immune to critique. For an economy is...
History The workers’ government debate in the Communist International By Jennifer RoeschThe ISR is pleased to run a series of excerpts from the new Haymarket edition of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International. The collection is introduced...
History Workers’ government: Fiction, pseudonym, or transition? Gregory Zinoviev’s opening report for the ECCI included a brief passage on the workers’ government slogan. He differentiated between educational use of the slogan as a long-range goal, applicable “almost everywhere,”...
Gender and Sexuality India’s Daughter By Tithi BhattacharyaLeslee Udwin’s film India’s Daughter attempts to tell the story of the brutal rape and murder in 2012 of a twenty-three-year-old female medical student in Delhi. The young woman and her male friend were on...
Americas Considerations on postdevelopmentalism in Latin America By Claudio KatzIn recent years, exponents of radical thought have formulated deep criticisms of developmental theories, questioning extraction and growth-at-any-cost models. They have especially underlined the devastating effects of...
Europe A new left rising? By Manuel GaríTranslator’s introduction The newly created political party Podemos (“we can” in English) shocked the European political establishment last May when it won 1.2 million votes and elected five deputies to...
Marxism Rereading Rosmer By Ian BirchallThe following article is based on a paper presented at the London Historical Materialism conference in November, 2014. The forthcoming Haymarket Books edition of Lenin's Moscow by Alfred Rosmer includes a new...
Imperialism Institutional imperatives and neoliberal madness Noam Chomsky interviewed by David BarsamianTo what extent are the multiple crises in the Middle East due to internal factors and to what extent are they linked to US policies in the region? There is an interesting interview with Graham Fuller.1...
Race and Class Race, surveillance, and empire: A commentary By Tithi Bhattacharya and Lance SelfaDeepa Kumar and Arun Kundnani have written an excellent and provocative article, “Race, surveillance, and empire,” (ISR 96, Spring 2015) that challenges ISR readers to look at the evolving US surveillance state in a...
Issue #97 Summer 2015 Delusions of green growth Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Tumblr Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Issue contentsTop story Origins and delusions of green growth Features India’s Daughter Considerations on postdevelopmentalism in Latin America A new left rising? Rereading Rosmer The workers’ government debate in the Communist International Workers’ government: Fiction, pseudonym, or transition? Interviews Institutional imperatives and neoliberal madness Debates Race, surveillance, and empire: A commentary Reviews