Tag: Marxism
Climate, insurgency and Marxism at Endgames? Capitalism and the climate emergency
How is climate crisis re-shaping Marxism and insurgent movements across the world?
Conference: uneven and combined development
A conference in Glasgow on uneven and combined development for the 21st century.
The Importance of Colin Barker
Mike Haynes offers a tribute to revolutionary socialist thinker and organiser Colin Barker
An alien existence
Alienation is the idea that in the past people lived in harmony, then some rupture left people feeling like foreigners in the world, but that this can be overcome for humanity to again live in harmony with itself and nature. To what extent is alienation a useful concept for Marxists? What does it explain and obscure?
revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part...
In the third and final part of his essay on violence and capitalist social relations, Colin Barker insists that capitalist states cannot be theorised without recognising their multiplicity.
Review: Capitalism and Theory
A collection of the writings of Mike Kidron casts light on the heterodox Marxist economist and the revolutionary socialist organisation he once belonged to, writes Brian Parkin.
Between Sartre and Cliff: Ian Birchall, a heterodox Marxist’s trajectory
Selim Nadi conducts a wide-ranging interview with long-standing revolutionary socialist Ian Birchall.
revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part...
In the second part of his essay on how violence and coercion are written into the core of capitalist social relations, Colin Barker explores how states modify the law of value.
revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part...
The first part of Colin Barker's essay looking at how violence and coercion are written into the core of capitalist social relations
Review: What’s Wrong With Rights?
Radha D'Souza's investigation into the international liberal rights regime is a welcome intervention that should make us question the framework of 'rights'.
Latest articles
The long Conservative decline
Labour still has a long way to go to win this election. But the Tory crisis won't go away either, regardless of who wins on 12 December, argues Duncan Thomas.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
20 November is Trans Day of Remembrance. Patricia Lockhart, an activist with Sisters Uncut, reports on developments in Scotland and argues that socialists need to stand against transphobia now more than ever.
Hong Kong: the occupation of Poly U
Colin Sparks reports on the ongoing occupation of the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.
Review: The Twittering Machine
Mark Murphy reviews Richard Seymour's latest book, which uses a psychoanalytical framework to understand the phenomenon of social media.
What a way to make a living | An agency worker in the hospitality...
A former agency worker recounts their experiences in the hospitality industry.
Labour manifesto – what the grassroots membership demands
Hanna Gál reports on the campaigns of the grassroots Labour Party membership for a progressive election manifesto.
Defend workers’ rights – against McCluskey
Unite activist Ian Allinson responds to Len McCluskey's attempt to undermine the free movement policy agreed at Labour conference.
Education struggles in Greece
A struggle against neoliberal reforms to Higher Education in Greece has come to a head this week.
Bolivia #ThisIsACoup
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has been forced from office in a coup following two weeks of civil unrest and a disputed presidential election.
Battles rage across Hong Kong
The confrontation in Hong Kong has entered a new phase with pitched battles across the city running through the week.
Highlights
Striking together for Higher Education
The whys, whats and what nexts of the upcoming higher education strikes, which begin on 25 November.
revolutionary reflections | Class struggles in the 1989 revolution
For the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we publish a translation of Volkhard Mosler's analysis of the class composition of the East German regime and the opposition movement to it.
Fight for a Labour government
We call for everyone to mobilise energetically against the Conservative Party and for the election of a Corbyn government
What a way to make a living | The Royal Mail sorting office
In the latest instalment of our What a way to make a living series, Daniel Freeborn tells us about the daily grind at a Royal Mail sorting office.
revolutionary reflections | Endgames of US petro-imperialism?
Brian Parkin explains some of the contradictions of the energy markets and the process of US imperial decline in an era of climate catastrophe