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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
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“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
Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution, by Michael Morris
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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
Working people have no interest in saving the euro, interview with Costas Lapavitsas, conducted by Stefan Bornost
China’s capitalism and the crisis, by Jane Hardy & 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
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Videos of ISJ Crisis, Class and Resistance conference
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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
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France after Sarkozy: Confronting the politics of despair, by Jim Wolfreys
The life and times of Occupy Wall Street, by Jen Roesch
Rochdale: an anatomy of the sexual abuse scandal, by Judith Orr
Resistance: the best Olympic spirit, by Dave Zirin & Gareth Edwards
The Syrian crucible, by Jonathan Maunder
The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund, by Sai Englert
Characterising the period, by Nigel Harris
Twenty five years of revolution, by Colin Barker
Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics, by Alex Callinicos
A reply to David McNally, by Joseph Choonara
Clutching at straws? Some mainstream accounts of the crisis, by Brian O’Boyle
Grappling with the united front, by Ian Birchall
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The crisis of black leadership, by Esme Choonara & Yuri Prasad
Democracy: fact and fetish, by Donny Gluckstein
Back to “normality”? US foreign policy under Obama, by Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry & Robert Knox
In perspective: John Holloway, by Paul Blackledge
“Chavs”, class and representation, by Nicola Ginsburgh
Could Keynes end the slump? Introducing the Marxist multiplier, by Guglielmo Carchedi
Germany’s lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited, by Sebastian Zehetmair
The Bradford riots: responses to a rebellion, by Amy Leather
The impact of the crisis on the working class in Britain, by Laura Cooke
Round-up on political economy, by Joseph Choonara
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“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
The dynamics of revolution, by Alex Callinicos
The enemy’s enemy: Disraeli and working class leadership, by Ian Birchall
Hegemony and mass critical intellectuality, by Panagiotis Sotiris
Divided they fell: the German left and the rise of Hitler, by Florian Wilde
Climate change: it’s even worse than we thought, by Martin Empson
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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
Two in one? by Leandros Bolaris
Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism, by Henry Bernstein
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Turkey: Between Islamic neoliberalism and Kemalist nationalism, by Ron Margulies
Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today, by Paul Blackledge
Egypt: The workers advance, by Philip Marfleet
Privatising the NHS, by Jeni Gosling
The Human Genome Project: Brave new world of scientific understanding or false dawn? by John Parrington
What gender does, by Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale
Sexuality in pre-class society: A response to Sheila McGregor, by Colin Wilson
The neoliberal era in Britain: Historical developments and current perspectives, by Neil Davidson
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From global slump to long depression, by Michael Roberts
Can Len McCluskey reclaim Labour? by Julie Sherry
The politics of the SWP crisis, by Charlie Kimber & Alex Callinicos
Neoliberalism and the British working class: A reply to Neil Davidson, by Jane Hardy & Joseph Choonara
“Left Reformism” and socialist strategy, by Ed Rooksby
Michael Gove: Doing the Right Thing? by Nick Grant
Giorgio Agamben in perspective, by Simon Behrman
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The KPD and the Crisis of World Revolution, by Yusuf Timms
The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance, by Sean Vernell
“The politics of the SWP crisis” – a response, by Jim Wolfreys & others
Can we move forward? a reply to Wolfreys and others, by Charlie Kimber & Alex Callinicos
A Response to John Molyneux on Sexuality, by Colin Wilson
Sexuality and social constructionism: A reply to Colin Wilson, by John Molyneux
Pre-Class Sexuality: Free, Warm and Wild, by Terry Sullivan
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Day School: Work, Class & Resistance
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Can the Tories abolish the welfare state? by Iain Ferguson
Transgender oppression and resistance, by Laura Miles
A “Trot of the milder persuasion”: Raymond Challinor’s Marxism, by Christian Høgsbjerg
Dialectics, nature and the dialectics of nature, by Camilla Royle
“All things are in common”: theology and politics in Luther Blissett’s Q, by Roland Boer
The internet, social media and the workplace, by Martin Upchurch
Clear red water or Fabianism with a valleys accent? Wales and the politics of devolution, by Tim Evans
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A Note on Sex and Early Societies, by Phil Webster
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Thirty years on: the Socialist Workers Party 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 & Yuri Prasad
Financial times, by Joseph Choonara
Environmentalism in crisis: neoliberal conservation and wilderness romanticism, by Ieuan Churchill
Stuart Hall in perspective, by Alex Callinicos
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Portugal: 1974–5, by Bob Light
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UKIP and the politics of 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
Classical Marxism and the question of reformism, by Donny Gluckstein
Capital and resistance in the Middle East, by Anne Alexander
Piketty and Marx, by Tomáš Tengely-Evans
Defusing George Orwell, by John Newsinger
Ukraine and the Bolsheviks, by John Rose
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The case of the disappearing Lenin, by Kevin Corr & Gareth Jenkins
Ukraine: imperialism, war and the left, by Rob Ferguson
South Africa: from Marikana to the “Numsa moment”, by Charlie Kimber
Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation, by Nicola Ginsburgh
Good sense on global warming, by Andreas Ytterstad
Theories of difference: the Subaltern project examined, by Talat Ahmed
Debating imperialism, by Adrian Budd
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The birth of a new generation under tear gas: the umbrella movement in Hong Kong, by Vincent Sung
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Debate on 25th February: Syriza and Socialist Strategy
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ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis, by Anne Alexander
An end to isolation? Palestine and the Arab revolutions, by Philip Marfleet
Bassem Chit’s critique of Arab nationalism, by Simon Assaf
Nationalism, resistance and revolution, by Bassem Chit
Why are there so few strikes? by Simon Joyce
The mass strike in the First World War, by Chris Fuller
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Interview – Mexico in flames: The challenges facing the movement
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After the Paris attacks: An Islamophobic spiral, by Jim Wolfreys
Islamophobia: the othering of Europe’s Muslims, by Hassan Mahamdallie
Racism and resistance in the US after Ferguson, by Megan Trudell
Marx rediscovered, by Sheila McGregor
Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, by Biodun Olamosu & Andy Wynne
Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O’Brien, by Dave Lyddon
An elusive independence: Neocolonial intervention in the Caribbean, by Kevin Edmonds
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SYRIZA AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY
Syriza and Socialist Strategy – debate transcript, by Alex Callinicos & Stathis Kouvelakis
CHINA, WORLD CAPITALISM AND WORKERS’ RESISTANCE
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The Middle East, Alex Callinicos interviewed by Marx 21 on the situation in the Middle East today
Fighting the Last War: A Note on Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, “Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel? Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War” (Historical Materialism, 23.2 [2015]), by Alex Callinicos
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Manoeuvres from above, Movements from below: Greece under Tsipras, by Gareth Jenkins & Despina Karayianni
The global crawl continues, by Michael Roberts
The “Islamic State” and the counter-revolution, by Ghayath Naisse
Capitalism and species extinction, by Ian Rappel
Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers’ and soldiers’ councils, by John Rose
Tamás Krausz’s Lenin, by Kevin Corr
Revolutionaries in the unions: The reality of the strike, by Mark O’Brien
Socialism, satire and Charlie Hebdo, by Mark Brown
Religion and revolution in the Middle Ages, by Graham Mustin
Trotsky and the POUM, by Andy Durgan
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SYRIZA AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY
Syriza and Socialist Strategy – debate transcript, by Alex Callinicos & Stathis Kouvelakis
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The Middle East, Alex Callinicos interviewed by Marx 21 on the situation in the Middle East today
Fighting the Last War: A Note on Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel? Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War (Historical Materialism, 23.2 [2015]), by Alex Callinicos
Anti-Bukharin: A reply to Alex Callinicos, by Adam David Morton
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Fortress Europe: The war against migrants, by Fran Cetti
The EU referendum: The case for a socialist Yes vote, by John Palmer
The internationalist case against the European Union, by Alex Callinicos
Hearts and minds: The myth and reality of British counter-insurgency, by John Newsinger
Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism, by Joseph Choonara
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A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party, by Mark L. Thomas
Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx’s economics, by Jane Hardy
Striking debates, by Paul McGarr
Strikes, ballots and the class struggle: An addition to the strikes debate, by Richard Morgan
Jobs, justice, climate: The struggle continues, by Martin Empson
Between Marx and Freud: Erich Fromm revisited, by Iain Ferguson
Half socialist? Leon Trotsky and the Soviet Union, by John Rose
Was the German Revolution defeated by January 1919? by Tony Phillips
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The “crisis” of the European border regime: Towards a Marxist theory of borders, by Nicholas De Genova
Atheism, secularism and religious freedom: Debates within the German left, by Kate Davison
“All changed, changed utterly”: The historical significance of the Irish Revolution, by Shaun Doherty
Reassessing Podemos, by Andy Brown
Shakespeare belongs to us, by Gareth Jenkins
At the forefront of revolution: Marxism and women, by Sarah Bates
Pakistan: failing state or neoliberalism in crisis? by Geoff Brown
The meaning of the school testing obsession, by Simon Boxley
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Official and unofficial action in the fight against anti-union laws, by Ralph Darlington
Marxism and the Anthropocene, by Camilla Royle
What are we to do with Islam? The case of Turkey, by Ron Margulies
Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya, by John Newsinger
Where does ISIS come from? by Miriam Scharf
The rebirth of social democracy, by Donny Gluckstein
The stagnation of the Dutch Socialist Party, by Max van Lingen
Under Fire: A call for peace from the trenches, by Leonard Marcel Ares
Does every child matter? by Ralph Tebbutt
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Why did Britain vote Leave? by Charlie Kimber
The ideology of Europeanism and Europe’s migrant other, by Céline Cantat
Food, agriculture and climate change, by Martin Empson
Real capitalism: turbulent and antagonistic, but not imperfect, by Michael Roberts
Hungary 1956: a socialist revolution, by G.M. Tamás
The British Empire and the First World War: the colonial experience, by Talat Ahmed
Into the digital void? by Martin Upchurch
Marx deflated: Gareth Stedman Jones, by Alex Callinicos
Marie Equi, Wobbly, by John Newsinger
The new Cuba: myths and realities, by Mike Gonzalez
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Donald Trump and the US elections, by Josh Hollands
Interview: Lessons of the Syrian Revolution, by Ghayath Naisse
Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class, by Yuri Prasad
Trotsky on the Labour Party, by Tony Phillips
The Labour Party, anti-Semitism and Zionism, by John Newsinger
Understanding the counter-revolution, by Jad Bouharoun
Ecology and value theory, by Jean Parker
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Antisemitism and the far-right today, by Rob Ferguson
Lenin’s April Theses and the Russian Revolution: A seminal moment, not a misunderstanding, by Kevin Corr
The sense of art: In memoriam John Berger, by Mike Gonzalez
A class act: Erik Olin Wright in perspective, by Joseph Choonara
A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley’s vision of utopia, by Martin Empson
Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers? by Xanthe Rose
Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family, by Mike Beaken
Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution, by Chris Newlove
The story of the story of Stagger Lee, by Simon Andrewes
Misrepresenting revolution: Art at the Royal Academy, by Nick Grant
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Interview: The meaning of Macron, by Vanina Giudicelli
Scotland the paradox, by Donny Gluckstein
Podemos, Catalonia and the workers’ movement in the Spanish state, by Héctor Sierra
Fast food rights: organising the unorganised, by Julie Sherry
The Russian Revolution: tragedy or inspiration? by James Eaden
Science, socialism and the Russian Revolution, by John Parrington
Neoliberalism, the state and revolution: the case of Egypt, by Philip Marfleet
Class and class struggle in China today, by Simon Gilbert
Neoliberalism and the crisis in health and social care, by Lee Humber
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The orphaned revolution: the meaning of October 1917, by Alex Callinicos
Maxim Gorky and the fellow travellers, by Cathy Porter
The Russian Revolution and the British working class, by Pete Jackson
After the surge: Corbyn and the road ahead, by Mark L. Thomas
A hard road to travel: black people and racism in the 19th century United States, by Ken Olende
The myth of loyalist socialism, by Mike Milotte
Marx’s Capital at 150, by Nick Moore
The Third Republic, the war and the mutiny in the French Army in 1917, by Steve Guy
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Marxism, feminism and transgender politics, by Sue Caldwell
Is globalisation finished? by Martin Upchurch
Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution, by Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig
Eric Hobsbawm’s histories, by Christian Høgsbjerg
The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974–5: crisis, state and revolution, by Raquel Varela
Illusions of world-ecology, by Ian Angus
What has happened to the British labour movement and what does it mean for the left in the unions? by Mark O’Brien
The radical Robert Burns, by Charlie McKinnon
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Remembering “Rivers of Blood”, by Shirin Hirsch
Marx’s politics, by Alex Callinicos
Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis, by Matt Vidal
The political economy of a long depression, by Joseph Choonara
How working class women won the vote, by Judy Cox
Education, capitalism and the student revolt, by Chris Harman and others
Chris Harman, 1968 and the historic Open Letter to the Polish Communist Party, by John Rose
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Out of control? Youth crime, class and capitalism, by Jo Cardwell, Claire Dissington and Brian Richardson
Fourteen days that shook the universities, by Christian Høgsbjerg, Julie Hearn, Carlo Morelli and Camilla Royle
The Prague Spring of 1968: a glimpse of socialism? by Tomáš Tengely-Evans
Looking back to imagine the future: the political impact of imperialism on the rest of the world, by Ron Margulies
Capitalism and mental health treatment, by Shirley Franklin
“The axe without an edge”: social democracy and the Finnish Revolution of 1918, by John Newsinger
German Marxism and the Holocaust, by Donny Gluckstein
Making waves: Hokusai and the creation of modern Japan, by Ben Windsor
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Value isn’t everything, by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett
Natural capital: a neoliberal response to species extinction, by Ian Rappel
Social reproduction theory: back to (which) Marx? by Sheila McGregor
The Labour Party and post-neoliberalism, by Martin Upchurch
How not to resist racism: a lesson from France, by Dave Sewell
Trotsky and the New Stalinism, by Chris Harman
Remember, remember the 9th of November, by Donny Gluckstein
Keeping it real: the brutal art of Ken Loach, by Nick Grant
Labouring under no illusions, by Joseph Choonara
Trotskyology, by Christian Høgsbjerg
Post-capitalism in commons? by John Sinha
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