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Samuel Foster
Samuel Foster introduces Socialist History 55.
Charlie McGuire
The Irish revolutionary period of 1912-1923 helped stimulate and develop the political thinking and outlook of the Irish left. During this period, Irish socialists and labour movement activists had to frame responses to the movement for independence, the responses of the British state, the rise of unionism, and the threat of partition.
Sally Davison, Kirsten Forkert, Alison Winch
Alison Winch, Kirsten Forkert and Sally Davison introduce this special issue of Soundings.
Ruth Pearson
Economic decisions - such as where investment is increased and or withdrawn, which services will flourish and which will be run down, whose living standards will be protected or boosted and whose reduced - are not gender neutral. Neoliberal policies in particular have disproportionately affected women, particularly low-income and BAME women, through their lack of interest in social investment and the cuts they are making to the resources and public services that sustain life.
Yemisi Akinbobola
This article explores neoliberal feminism in relation to Africa, with a particular focus on Nigeria.
So Mayer
'It would be so lovely to think that, if I were a man, I could explain the law and people would listen and say "OK." That would be so restful.' Laura, Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Tamsyn Dent, Jannat Hossain, Katharine Harris, Peter Ridley
Tamsyn Dent, Jannat Hossain, Katharine Harris, Peter Ridley
Allan Antliff
In 2015, artist, architect and anarchist Adrian Blackwell contributed a sculptural installation, Mirrored Circles for Ba Jin, to an exhibition of public art by four Canadian artists curated by Yan Wu (‘Subtle Gesture’ was an offsite contribution to that year’s ‘Shanghai Urban Space Art Season’).
Emma Mahony
This article explores the conflicted relationship between creative activism and the art world, through an analysis of the Barcelona-based activist collective Enmedio.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, James Stafford
Conservative dishonesty over Brexit has put Labour in a dangerous position. By holding back from formulating a coherent and realistic Brexit policy, the party has left itself with many hostages to fortune.
Sahil Jai Dutta, Grace Blakeley, Anahí Wiedenbrug
Brings together three perspectives on the central arguments of Adam Tooze’s Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018), and how they differ from other dominant analyses of our current moment
Brian Shaev
Revisiting socialist debates on the Treaties of Rome (1957) opens a window onto early conceptions of the potential of a European common market and Labour's capitulation to the sovereigntist dogmas of late-imperial Britain.
Juvaria Jafri
Attempts to increase financial access for the poor have tended to create bifurcated banking systems, which systematically disadvantage those they are designed to include, and can exacerbate inequality.
Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann
A citizen's wealth fund built up via progressive taxation on wealth and the one-off issue of a long-term government bond has huge progressive potential.
Samuel Foster
In the wake of Karl Marx’s bicentenary, and the recent centennial commemorations of both the Great War and Russian Revolutions, Issue 54 of Socialist History serves as a retrospective on Marxism’s impact, legacy and possible future. Samuel Foster introduces issue 54 of Socialist History.
Sarah Ann Sewell
This article examines German communists’ efforts to construct a revolutionary political culture during the Weimar Republic.
Madeleine Davis
John Kelly’s excellent study argues that while the British Trotskyist groups have been extremely unsuccessful in fulfilling their stated aims, principally building a mass revolutionary party, their main impact has come through involvement in wider social or political movements.