Alasdair MacIntyre, who died on 21 May 2025, aged 96, was an influential philosopher. His most famous book, After Virtue, first published in 1981, is a landmark in moral philosophy. MacIntyre converted to Catholicism several decades ago but, in an… Continue Reading → The post Pick of the Quarter appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
A review of Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector (two volumes) by Alexander Gallas (Bristol University Press, 2024), £80 and £85 Until the 1990s, social theory attached importance to the influence of work and to… Continue Reading → The post “Traffic wardens, soldiers, gardeners…” appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
A review of The Time of the Harvest Has Come: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants’ War by Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2025), £12 Five hundred years ago, tens of thousands of peasants took to the roads and marched across great… Continue Reading → The post An incitement to revolution appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading → The post Contesting two centuries of reactionary feminism appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
In April 2025, president of the United States Donald Trump shocked the world with the scale of the tariffs he threatened to impose on imports.1 In this article, I identify the factors motivating Trump and the likely consequences. His message,… Continue Reading →| International Socialism
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The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, did not face huge demonstrations at the start of his second term in January 2025. However, resistance is now growing. Trump’s strategy of “flooding the zone” with executive actions has caused… Continue Reading → The post Fighting Trump: resistance in the US appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
The working class is fragmented in its politics, including its support for different parties or no party at all.1 The existence of these divisions is not an accident of history that can be wished away. It reflects ideological currents rooted… Continue Reading → The post Revolutionaries, hegemony and the united front appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
The British state’s assaults on the Palestine movement, Kurdish activists, Just Stop Oil members and others in 2024 and 2025 is a serious challenge to our right to protest and to organise.1 The arrests at the national demonstration for Palestine… Continue Reading → The post Force and fraud: capitalist repression and the lessons from the 1920s appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
The global surge of attacks on abortion rights has been a wake-up call for pro-choice activists in Australia.1 In June 2022, thousands rallied in solidarity with women in the United States when Roe v Wade was overturned by the US… Continue Reading → The post To put an end to the abortion wars, we need mass struggle appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligence (AI). The phalanx of smirking tech bros… Continue Reading → The post AI and the arms race appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.| International Socialism
