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RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL The killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked a global rebellion against racism that has been remarkable in its reach, determination and resilience.. 1 The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has shone a spotlight not just on police racism, but on how racism impacts on all areas of our lives—in education, health, employment, entertainment and more. THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
FIGHTING BACK ON TURTLE ISLAND: INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY 34 Tellingly, “these colonial troops actively compared Indigenous people to the Irish, one declaring to the raucous laughter of his mates that the Sioux ‘sound exactly like the Irish’.He followed it up with a mockery of the two accents mashed-up. Ireland, of course, was one of Britain’s earliest colonial projects, and the Irish were engaged in a very serious struggle against British MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
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BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and DIVIDED THEY FELL: THE GERMAN LEFT AND THE RISE OF HITLERSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL The killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked a global rebellion against racism that has been remarkable in its reach, determination and resilience.. 1 The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has shone a spotlight not just on police racism, but on how racism impacts on all areas of our lives—in education, health, employment, entertainment and more. THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
FIGHTING BACK ON TURTLE ISLAND: INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY 34 Tellingly, “these colonial troops actively compared Indigenous people to the Irish, one declaring to the raucous laughter of his mates that the Sioux ‘sound exactly like the Irish’.He followed it up with a mockery of the two accents mashed-up. Ireland, of course, was one of Britain’s earliest colonial projects, and the Irish were engaged in a very serious struggle against British MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
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THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The patriarchy theory backs up the notion widely accepted within the women’s movement that there has to be a separation of struggles, socialism and the workers’ movement fight capitalism, the women’s movement fights a separate struggle against patriarchy. The logic of the separation of the struggles now is the separate social development FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of MARXISM AND FEMINISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Every successive upsurge in the struggle against women’s oppression has seen debates arise between Marxism and feminism. Questions of the relationship between exploitation and oppression, of class and gender, and how best to organise to fight for women’s liberation recur from the 19th century through to today. RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among CRITICAL NOTES ON EDWARD SAID • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Irfan Habib. The writer and critic Edward Said who died last year was admired by the whole anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. The image of this successful, western-educated, frail academic throwing a token stone against the Israeli forces in occupation of his land of birth is one that few will forget. DIVIDED THEY FELL: THE GERMAN LEFT AND THE RISE OF HITLER References. Abendroth, Wolfgang, 1997, Einführung in die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung: Von den Anfängen bis 1933 (Distel). Drechsler, Hanno, 1983, Die Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung am Ende der Weimarer Republik (SOAK-Verlag). Meyer-Leviné, Rosa, 1977, Inside German Communism: Memoirs of CLASS AND CLASS STRUGGLE IN CHINA TODAY • INTERNATIONAL I n 2000 Zhang Zemin, then President of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, unveiled his great new political insight—the theory of the “three represents”. 1 Although it’s easy to ridicule the pseudo-Marxist rhetoric and the exaggerated claims of profundity for his theory, it did signify an important shift in the Communist Party’s strategic thinking. WHY DID BRITAIN VOTE LEAVE? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians. 1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a Remain vote. Tory prime minister David Cameron had been very sure that he would win thereferendum.
ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
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FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a AN ELUSIVE INDEPENDENCE: NEOCOLONIAL INTERVENTION IN THE O n the eve of Jamaica’s celebrations marking 50 years of political independence, the Jamaica Gleaner released the results of a poll finding that an estimated 60 percent of Jamaicans believed that they would be better off if they had remained a colony of Britain. 1 Central to the argument was a comparison of respective GDPs per capita, with that of the Cayman Islands (a British overseas BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
NON-VIOLENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION • INTERNATIONAL 23 Chiu, 2019, makes this explicit in the Hong Kong context: “In contrast, non-violent movements attract many more supporters and benefit from government violence.While hundreds of Hong Kong protesters have been violent, millions have demonstrated peacefully. Furthermore, millions more supporters will not demonstrate but will donate money, strike, boycott or share information on MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Disability is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment, and b. handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a CHINA AND IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY • INTERNATIONAL 1 Measuring migration is never entirely accurate, but a figure of 300 million migrant workers in China as of 2019 is commonly mentioned.Some 120 million of these migrate locally, many combining agricultural and urban employment. This leaves 180-200 million in the major industrialcentres.
MARX AND RACE: A EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS? • INTERNATIONAL T here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia. 1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of wisdom, and as such rejects the establishment’s view that positive developments in history generally come from white Europeans. 2 HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM W omen won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as women risked their health, their freedom, their families and their THE BOLSHEVIKS AND ISLAM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The Islamic veil was not an issue for the Bolsheviks under Lenin. The mass assault on the veil was launched in 1927 by Russian chauvinists and Stalinists, a frightening harbinger of the calamity of forced collectivisation a few years later. Forced unveiling was A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. AN ELUSIVE INDEPENDENCE: NEOCOLONIAL INTERVENTION IN THE O n the eve of Jamaica’s celebrations marking 50 years of political independence, the Jamaica Gleaner released the results of a poll finding that an estimated 60 percent of Jamaicans believed that they would be better off if they had remained a colony of Britain. 1 Central to the argument was a comparison of respective GDPs per capita, with that of the Cayman Islands (a British overseas ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Disability is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment, and b. handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to NON-VIOLENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION • INTERNATIONAL 23 Chiu, 2019, makes this explicit in the Hong Kong context: “In contrast, non-violent movements attract many more supporters and benefit from government violence.While hundreds of Hong Kong protesters have been violent, millions have demonstrated peacefully. Furthermore, millions more supporters will not demonstrate but will donate money, strike, boycott or share information on UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a CHINA AND IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY • INTERNATIONAL 1 Measuring migration is never entirely accurate, but a figure of 300 million migrant workers in China as of 2019 is commonly mentioned.Some 120 million of these migrate locally, many combining agricultural and urban employment. This leaves 180-200 million in the major industrialcentres.
MARX AND RACE: A EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS? • INTERNATIONAL T here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia. 1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of wisdom, and as such rejects the establishment’s view that positive developments in history generally come from white Europeans. 2 HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM W omen won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as women risked their health, their freedom, their families and their THE BOLSHEVIKS AND ISLAM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The Islamic veil was not an issue for the Bolsheviks under Lenin. The mass assault on the veil was launched in 1927 by Russian chauvinists and Stalinists, a frightening harbinger of the calamity of forced collectivisation a few years later. Forced unveiling was A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. AN ELUSIVE INDEPENDENCE: NEOCOLONIAL INTERVENTION IN THE O n the eve of Jamaica’s celebrations marking 50 years of political independence, the Jamaica Gleaner released the results of a poll finding that an estimated 60 percent of Jamaicans believed that they would be better off if they had remained a colony of Britain. 1 Central to the argument was a comparison of respective GDPs per capita, with that of the Cayman Islands (a British overseas ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
NON-VIOLENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION • INTERNATIONAL 23 Chiu, 2019, makes this explicit in the Hong Kong context: “In contrast, non-violent movements attract many more supporters and benefit from government violence.While hundreds of Hong Kong protesters have been violent, millions have demonstrated peacefully. Furthermore, millions more supporters will not demonstrate but will donate money, strike, boycott or share information on MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Disability is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment, and b. handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a CHINA AND IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY • INTERNATIONAL 1 Measuring migration is never entirely accurate, but a figure of 300 million migrant workers in China as of 2019 is commonly mentioned.Some 120 million of these migrate locally, many combining agricultural and urban employment. This leaves 180-200 million in the major industrialcentres.
MARX AND RACE: A EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS? • INTERNATIONAL T here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia. 1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of wisdom, and as such rejects the establishment’s view that positive developments in history generally come from white Europeans. 2 HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM W omen won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as women risked their health, their freedom, their families and their THE BOLSHEVIKS AND ISLAM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The Islamic veil was not an issue for the Bolsheviks under Lenin. The mass assault on the veil was launched in 1927 by Russian chauvinists and Stalinists, a frightening harbinger of the calamity of forced collectivisation a few years later. Forced unveiling was A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. AN ELUSIVE INDEPENDENCE: NEOCOLONIAL INTERVENTION IN THE O n the eve of Jamaica’s celebrations marking 50 years of political independence, the Jamaica Gleaner released the results of a poll finding that an estimated 60 percent of Jamaicans believed that they would be better off if they had remained a colony of Britain. 1 Central to the argument was a comparison of respective GDPs per capita, with that of the Cayman Islands (a British overseas ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ONISJ.ORG.UK
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and MARXISM, CLASS AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: THE LEGACY OF THE I n the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) and Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria). FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
NON-VIOLENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION • INTERNATIONAL 23 Chiu, 2019, makes this explicit in the Hong Kong context: “In contrast, non-violent movements attract many more supporters and benefit from government violence.While hundreds of Hong Kong protesters have been violent, millions have demonstrated peacefully. Furthermore, millions more supporters will not demonstrate but will donate money, strike, boycott or share information on MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Disability is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment, and b. handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL OR NO GO Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a CHINA AND IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY • INTERNATIONAL 1 Measuring migration is never entirely accurate, but a figure of 300 million migrant workers in China as of 2019 is commonly mentioned.Some 120 million of these migrate locally, many combining agricultural and urban employment. This leaves 180-200 million in the major industrialcentres.
MARX AND RACE: A EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS? • INTERNATIONAL T here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia. 1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of wisdom, and as such rejects the establishment’s view that positive developments in history generally come from white Europeans. 2 HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM W omen won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as women risked their health, their freedom, their families and their THE BOLSHEVIKS AND ISLAM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The Islamic veil was not an issue for the Bolsheviks under Lenin. The mass assault on the veil was launched in 1927 by Russian chauvinists and Stalinists, a frightening harbinger of the calamity of forced collectivisation a few years later. Forced unveiling was A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. AN ELUSIVE INDEPENDENCE: NEOCOLONIAL INTERVENTION IN THE O n the eve of Jamaica’s celebrations marking 50 years of political independence, the Jamaica Gleaner released the results of a poll finding that an estimated 60 percent of Jamaicans believed that they would be better off if they had remained a colony of Britain. 1 Central to the argument was a comparison of respective GDPs per capita, with that of the Cayman Islands (a British overseas ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of BEFORE AND AFTER POST-FORDISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Sheila Cohen, Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham (Merlin Press, 2013), £15.95 Along the stretch of the Thames Estuary that runs from Barking and the North Circular at one end, along the A13 to Thurrock Continue Reading → NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. INTO THE DIGITAL VOID? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The relationship between technology, innovation and capital accumulation is rehearsed, before focusing on computerisation and digitalisation as distinct forms of innovation. Marxist theory, particularly the concepts of socially necessary labour time and abstract labour, helps illuminate the real role of ICT at work. ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of BEFORE AND AFTER POST-FORDISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Sheila Cohen, Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham (Merlin Press, 2013), £15.95 Along the stretch of the Thames Estuary that runs from Barking and the North Circular at one end, along the A13 to Thurrock Continue Reading → NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. INTO THE DIGITAL VOID? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The relationship between technology, innovation and capital accumulation is rehearsed, before focusing on computerisation and digitalisation as distinct forms of innovation. Marxist theory, particularly the concepts of socially necessary labour time and abstract labour, helps illuminate the real role of ICT at work. THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. WOMEN AND THE FAR RIGHT • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM T he far right is on the rise across the globe and the gains made by women since the 1960s are in their sights. The leader of the world’s most powerful nation is a proud misogynist, boasts about the sexual harassment of women and has declared himself CAPITALISM, CLASS, HEALTH AND MEDICINE • INTERNATIONAL Notes. 1: Marmot, 2005, p1103. 2: Marmot, 2005, pp1100, 1101. 3: Townsend and Davidson, 1982. 4: Marmot, 1994, 2003.If causation flowed the other way it would not make “selection” acceptable-merely the process of ill health different. And there is now considerable evidence to show that poor health results from an accumulation of disadvantage that begins in the womb. MIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS AND CAPITALISM • INTERNATIONAL Migration has always been high on the agenda of the ruling classes, particularly in the core capitalist economies, as they have sought to balance the need for migrant workers to fuel expansionary periods of capitalism against picking up the bill for reproducing and maintainingthese workers.
SNAPSHOTS OF UNION STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES The strengths, as well as the weaknesses, are brought out by the latest survey published by National Statistics. 1. Two slightly different sets of figures show the long-term decline in union strength. The first gives overall union membership since the mid_1970sas calculated by
HOW FAR WAS THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION MADE BY THE BOLSHEVIKS A review of Dave Sherry, Russia 1917: Workers’ Revolution and the Festival of the Oppressed (Bookmarks, 2017), £12.99. At a time when it looks as if capitalism can’t—and shouldn’t—survive through the 21st century, it’s timely to remind a new generation of activists that the 20th century witnessed a massive challenge to capitalism in the shape of the Russian Revolution of 1917. A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. STRIKES, BALLOTS AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE: AN ADDITION TO Simon Joyce has helped galvanise a long overdue discussion in . International Socialism on the state of workplace class struggle in the UK. 1 Though I partially disagree both with his claim that shop stewards have lost control of the strike weapon and with his point that workers lose on “perishable” issues, that is, “issues that management would win by default if workers did not act WHY DID BRITAIN VOTE LEAVE? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians. 1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a Remain vote. Tory prime minister David Cameron had been very sure that he would win thereferendum.
ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of BEFORE AND AFTER POST-FORDISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Sheila Cohen, Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham (Merlin Press, 2013), £15.95 Along the stretch of the Thames Estuary that runs from Barking and the North Circular at one end, along the A13 to Thurrock Continue Reading → NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. INTO THE DIGITAL VOID? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The relationship between technology, innovation and capital accumulation is rehearsed, before focusing on computerisation and digitalisation as distinct forms of innovation. Marxist theory, particularly the concepts of socially necessary labour time and abstract labour, helps illuminate the real role of ICT at work. ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of BEFORE AND AFTER POST-FORDISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Sheila Cohen, Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham (Merlin Press, 2013), £15.95 Along the stretch of the Thames Estuary that runs from Barking and the North Circular at one end, along the A13 to Thurrock Continue Reading → NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE H ealth and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the NHS has accelerated markedly over the past three years, culminating in Tory manifesto promises to slice off great slabs of it for immediate privatisation. INTO THE DIGITAL VOID? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The relationship between technology, innovation and capital accumulation is rehearsed, before focusing on computerisation and digitalisation as distinct forms of innovation. Marxist theory, particularly the concepts of socially necessary labour time and abstract labour, helps illuminate the real role of ICT at work. THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM From International Socialism,. 2 (51): 3–57, Summer 1991. The relation between capital and the state is central to an understanding of developments in the world today. It is thrown up in a whole series of apparently different discussions: on the future for the Third World, on the relations between the superpowers in the aftermath ofthe Cold
RACE AND CLASS IN THE US • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM David Roediger, How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), £12.99. To state that race is socially constructed may be construed as a tired and even irrelevant point to make in a contemporary global society that has, in response to the Holocaust, seemingly banished biological concepts of race to history textbooks. WOMEN AND THE FAR RIGHT • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM T he far right is on the rise across the globe and the gains made by women since the 1960s are in their sights. The leader of the world’s most powerful nation is a proud misogynist, boasts about the sexual harassment of women and has declared himself CAPITALISM, CLASS, HEALTH AND MEDICINE • INTERNATIONAL Notes. 1: Marmot, 2005, p1103. 2: Marmot, 2005, pp1100, 1101. 3: Townsend and Davidson, 1982. 4: Marmot, 1994, 2003.If causation flowed the other way it would not make “selection” acceptable-merely the process of ill health different. And there is now considerable evidence to show that poor health results from an accumulation of disadvantage that begins in the womb. MIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS AND CAPITALISM • INTERNATIONAL Migration has always been high on the agenda of the ruling classes, particularly in the core capitalist economies, as they have sought to balance the need for migrant workers to fuel expansionary periods of capitalism against picking up the bill for reproducing and maintainingthese workers.
SNAPSHOTS OF UNION STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES The strengths, as well as the weaknesses, are brought out by the latest survey published by National Statistics. 1. Two slightly different sets of figures show the long-term decline in union strength. The first gives overall union membership since the mid_1970sas calculated by
HOW FAR WAS THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION MADE BY THE BOLSHEVIKS A review of Dave Sherry, Russia 1917: Workers’ Revolution and the Festival of the Oppressed (Bookmarks, 2017), £12.99. At a time when it looks as if capitalism can’t—and shouldn’t—survive through the 21st century, it’s timely to remind a new generation of activists that the 20th century witnessed a massive challenge to capitalism in the shape of the Russian Revolution of 1917. A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL: GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S VISION OF G errard Winstanley was 40 years old when Charles I was executed. 1 Had he been born 20 years before, or after, history would likely have been robbed of one of its most inspiring visionaries. Winstanley was the ideological driving force behind the Diggers, or as they preferred to be known, the True Levellers, a radical left-wing movement within the English Revolution. STRIKES, BALLOTS AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE: AN ADDITION TO Simon Joyce has helped galvanise a long overdue discussion in . International Socialism on the state of workplace class struggle in the UK. 1 Though I partially disagree both with his claim that shop stewards have lost control of the strike weapon and with his point that workers lose on “perishable” issues, that is, “issues that management would win by default if workers did not act WHY DID BRITAIN VOTE LEAVE? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians. 1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a Remain vote. Tory prime minister David Cameron had been very sure that he would win thereferendum.
ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ON ISJ.ORG.UKARTICLES ON CAPITALISM IN AMERICABEGINNING OF CAPITALISM INAMERICA
FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMFASCISM IN EUROPE 1930SFASCISM IN EUROPE RICK STEVESFASCISM IN ITALYPBS FASCISM IN EUROPEHISTORY OF FASCISM IN EUROPERISE OF FASCISM IN EUROPE Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
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THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLIFE OF ROBERT BURNSROBERT BURNS WIKI F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Judy Cox. Women won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as womenrisked
WHY DID BRITAIN VOTE LEAVE? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians. 1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a Remain vote. Tory prime minister David Cameron had been very sure that he would win thereferendum.
BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and FROM EUGENICS TO SCIENTIFIC RACISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The notion of “scientific racism”, classifying races and judging their value on the basis of biology, began with French anatomists such as Paul Broca and the aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau in the mid-19th century. 38 However, it is with eugenics—in Germany and the US in particular—that it is most strongly associated. ISSUE 170 • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLATEST ISSUEBACK ISSUESLINKSRESOURCESTRANSLATIONSSUBSCRIBE Analysis Pandemic politics: year two Joseph Choonara Ten years since the Arab revolutions: Middle Eastern voices reflect on a rebellious decade Anne Alexander Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today Alex Callinicos Fighting back on Turtle Island: Continue Reading → THE STATE AND CAPITALISM TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMSEE MORE ON ISJ.ORG.UKARTICLES ON CAPITALISM IN AMERICABEGINNING OF CAPITALISM INAMERICA
FASCISM IN EUROPE TODAY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMFASCISM IN EUROPE 1930SFASCISM IN EUROPE RICK STEVESFASCISM IN ITALYPBS FASCISM IN EUROPEHISTORY OF FASCISM IN EUROPERISE OF FASCISM IN EUROPE Fascism is an extreme form of counter-revolution. The aim of fascism is the permanent annihilation of all working class organisation, from revolutionary through to conservative. This goes beyond mere repression and terror, or even the physical destruction of THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
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THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISMLIFE OF ROBERT BURNSROBERT BURNS WIKI F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman HOW WORKING CLASS WOMEN WON THE VOTE • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Judy Cox. Women won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched ideas about women’s mental and physical inferiority were challenged as womenrisked
WHY DID BRITAIN VOTE LEAVE? • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians. 1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a Remain vote. Tory prime minister David Cameron had been very sure that he would win thereferendum.
BETWEEN MARX AND FREUD: ERICH FROMM REVISITED More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance. Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-Jewish psychoanalyst, writer, public intellectual and activist whose life-long concern was with developing an understanding of the relationship between capitalism and mental health, based on his attempt to integrate the ideas of Karl Marx and FROM EUGENICS TO SCIENTIFIC RACISM • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The notion of “scientific racism”, classifying races and judging their value on the basis of biology, began with French anatomists such as Paul Broca and the aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau in the mid-19th century. 38 However, it is with eugenics—in Germany and the US in particular—that it is most strongly associated. THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN BRITAIN: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND The world economy has experienced four systemic crises since the emergence of capitalism as a global system; the years 1873, 1929, 1973 marked the commencement of the first three. As Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy write: “Each of these earthquakes Continue Reading→
THE RADICAL ROBERT BURNS • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM F or many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called “that heav’n taught ploughman CAPITALISM AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT • INTERNATIONAL A review of Iain Ferguson, Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress (Bookmarks, 2017), £9.99 The current crisis in the National Health Service is at its worst in the field of mental health. Since the Conservative government was elected in 2010 and started reducing NHS funding, it has been mental health services that have borne the brunt of the cuts with £600 million cut from their MARXISM AND DISABILITY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Disability is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment, and b. handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to MIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS AND CAPITALISM • INTERNATIONAL Migration has always been high on the agenda of the ruling classes, particularly in the core capitalist economies, as they have sought to balance the need for migrant workers to fuel expansionary periods of capitalism against picking up the bill for reproducing and maintainingthese workers.
CAPITALISM, CLASS, HEALTH AND MEDICINE • INTERNATIONAL Notes. 1: Marmot, 2005, p1103. 2: Marmot, 2005, pp1100, 1101. 3: Townsend and Davidson, 1982. 4: Marmot, 1994, 2003.If causation flowed the other way it would not make “selection” acceptable-merely the process of ill health different. And there is now considerable evidence to show that poor health results from an accumulation of disadvantage that begins in the womb. MARX AND RACE: A EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS? • INTERNATIONAL T here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia. 1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of wisdom, and as such rejects the establishment’s view that positive developments in history generally come from white Europeans. 2 THEORIES OF PATRIARCHY • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM The patriarchy theory backs up the notion widely accepted within the women’s movement that there has to be a separation of struggles, socialism and the workers’ movement fight capitalism, the women’s movement fights a separate struggle against patriarchy. The logic of the separation of the struggles now is the separate social development FRANTZ FANON: DECOLONISATION THROUGH REVOLUTION A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016), £14.99 The last few years have seen a renewed interest among CRITICAL NOTES ON EDWARD SAID • INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Irfan Habib. The writer and critic Edward Said who died last year was admired by the whole anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. The image of this successful, western-educated, frail academic throwing a token stone against the Israeli forces in occupation of his land of birth is one that few will forget. Search for: Menu Close* Latest issue
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