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Analysis Hope amid horror? Britain’s new left and far right Joseph Choonara Fighting Trump: resistance in the US Ian Taylor Interview: Turkey in turmoil: authoritarianism, resistance and a new peace process Şenol Karakaş An olive shade of Green? Katie Coles… Continue Reading →| International Socialism
In previous issues of International Socialism, we have covered in some detail events in Syria—the initial uprising in 2011, the interventions of rival imperialisms and regional sub-imperialisms, the fracturing of Syrian politics, the ultimate overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime… Continue Reading → The post Pick of the Quarter appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Capitalism and war have always been profoundly connected. Max Weber noted the important role that financing the wars of European states played in the development of early modern capitalism.1 The bond remains as tight as ever today. As the illusions… Continue Reading → The post Understanding the Permanent Arms Economy: an introduction to the political economy of Michael Kidron appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
The advance of the far right internationally has disturbing echoes of interwar Europe.1 Just before Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) came to power in 1933, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote: Any serious analysis of… Continue Reading → The post Class and the far right appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
We live in dangerous, disorientating times.1 The world was already a terrifying enough place before Donald Trump returned to the White House in early 2025: with Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a human meat grinder in Ukraine and sabre rattling between… Continue Reading → The post Trump’s new imperial disorder appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Turkish politics have been in turmoil recently. Earlier this year, there were mass street protests against the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Then came the announcement that the country’s main Kurdish militant group would lay down its arms. Şenol Karakaş from… Continue Reading → The post Interview: Turkey in turmoil: authoritarianism, resistance and a new peace process appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
A review of Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom by Philip Marfleet (Bookmarks, 2025), £10 Publication of Philip Marfleet’s Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom comes in the context of almost two years of genocide enacted against the… Continue Reading → The post Palestinian history: a tool for liberation appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
A review of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes (Verso, 2025), £16.99 Jasper Bernes’ fascinating new book is a long history of the workers’ council— long because it… Continue Reading →| International Socialism
The horrors accompanying the breakdown of earlier methods of managing and organising global capitalism were very much in evidence this autumn.1 The genocide in Gaza most starkly symbolises this—but ongoing ecological disruption, combined with grinding economic stagnation across most of… Continue Reading →| International Socialism
Donald Trump has won the United States presidency twice by channelling the anger of millions of mainly white Americans towards the neoliberal elite—despite being part of that elite. Conspiracy theories help address and obscure the contradiction between Trump articulating this… Continue Reading → The post Jeffrey Epstein, MAGA conspiracy theories and Donald Trump’s dilemma appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Keir Starmer’s Labour is suffering an identity crisis. His government’s first year in office has combined a resurrection of old Blairite policies with an apparent rejection of Blairism’s embrace of globalisation, a turn to greater state intervention, and lurches to… Continue Reading → The post The changing face of Labour appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Forces on the British left are finally stirring. The announcement of Your Party, albeit long-awaited, organisationally fraught and with an uncertain future, has shown the strong support for socialist politics. At the time of writing, 900,000 people had signed up… Continue Reading → The post An olive shade of Green? appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
