En Passant

None of this means that there is never anything of interest in academic Marxism wrote Chris Harman. Just as with academic history or economics in general, among the piles of crap there is the occasional nugget of gold that no genuine Marxist can afford to ignore. What is more, even with the rubbish, it is sometimes necessary to make an effort to prove it is rubbish – as Engels did with Dühring.

But before you can do either task, you have to understand that revolutionary Marxism starts from different premises and has different aims to the academic version, and not confuse one with the other.

Alistair Hulett – singer, songwriter, socialist – died overnight. Chris Harman, Daniel Bensaid, Howard Zinn and now Alistair. Farewell comrades.

This article, by Sandra Bloodworth, is republished from Australia’s Socialist Alternative magazine. Chris Harman, one of the greatest revolutionary Marxists of recent years, has died at the young age of 67. This is a tragic loss for the revolutionary left. Harman was a revolutionary from his university days, and a leading member of the International […]

Chris Harman died a few hours ago of a heart attack at a Conference in Egypt. He was one of the greats of the International Socialist movement.

ECONOMIC CRISIS is reshaping struggles in China, but the Urumqi revolt confirms that grassroots struggle continues to erupt on an expanding scale.

A zombie bank is worthless but it continues to operate because of government support. So the dead are having a terrible effect on the living.