Revolutionary Keywords opens useful discussion
Ian Parker has a track record as an ecosocialist political activist in Britain. He is a committed but non-dogmatic Marxist and a psychoanalyst so, unsurprisingly, anything he writes is likely to be...
View ArticleRebel filmmakers honour CLR James
Cyril Lionel Robert James, best known as CLR James, was a Trinidadian-born, Black socialist whose work spanned many of the great struggles of the 20th century and across many continents.A life-long...
View ArticleA glimpse at Nigeria’s little known revolutionary left
Adam Mayer’s book on Marxist currents in Nigeria is what it says on the cover — a rich history of Marxist and revolutionary thought and struggles that are little known outside the West African nation.
View ArticleNew collection of essays look at crucial links in class and gender theory
Social Reproduction Theory Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya Pluto Press $45The rise of #MeToo, the anti-rape culture movement in India, the global women’s strike and the pro-choice movements that have...
View ArticleNew collection of essays look at crucial links in class and gender theory
Social Reproduction Theory Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya Pluto Press $45The rise of #MeToo, the anti-rape culture movement in India, the global women’s strike and the pro-choice movements that have...
View ArticleNew contributions to ecosocialist theory and practice
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy By Kohei Saito Monthly Review Press, 2017RED-GREEN REVOLUTION: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism...
View ArticleFarewell Chris Gaffney (1944–2019)
Chris Gaffney passed away on August 14 after a lengthy battle with cancer. An eloquent speaker, walking encyclopaedia of Marxism, talented actor, aficionado of opera and lover of nature and the animals...
View ArticleFive graphic novels and cartoons to politicise and criticise
Comics, graphic novels, narrative drawing, illustrated fiction are a growing arena for serious social and political commentary. Andrew Chuter reviews five that are a must read for activists today.
View ArticleFriedrich Engels on the bicentenary of his birth
The name of Friedrich Engels is invariably invoked in the same breath as that of Karl Marx, writes John Green, but who is aware of Engels’ own contribution to the political philosophy of what we today...
View ArticleEcology after Marx
Neville Spencer reviews John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature, which examines the ecological thought of those who came after Karl Marx and were influenced by his philosophy, politics and ecology.
View ArticleBiography sheds light on Marx's last years
Italian historian Marcello Musto's stimulating account of Karl Marx's last decade shows he did not fade as he aged, but engaged with developing his theories, reviewed by Barry Healy.
View ArticleThe history of philosophy: A coherent explanation
Neville Spencer reviews Alan Woods' excellent and readable history of philosophy, which is essential reading for students of Marxism.
View ArticleVale Margaret McLellan, 1942-2022
Margaret McLellan travelled to East Timor, visited refugees in the Villawood Detention Centre and was involved in the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and Christians for Peace. Steve O'Brien and Niko Leka...
View ArticleKohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023
Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2023, organised by Green Left. Peter Boyle reports.
View ArticleA materialist framework for understanding disability
Nova Sobieralski reviews Michael Oliver's The Politics of Disablement— considered a paradigm defining work for the sociological study of disability.
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