International Socialism 143

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Issue 143 appears as the official celebrations of the outbreak of
the First World War reach their peak. Megan Trudell traces the
process through which, in both the academy and the larger political
establishment, class antagonism has been written out of the history
of this slaughter. Paul Blackledge shows how the differences over
political strategy that had been developing in the international
socialist movement before 1914 crystallised thanks to the war into
the great division between revolutionaries and reformists.
Analysis starts out by examining two crises of contemporary
imperialismthe Sunni backlash that threatens to overturn the fragile
settlement imposed on Iraq by the United States after the 2003 invasion and the political
upheaval
under way in Scotland with the forthcoming independence referendum. Mike Gonzalez unravels the
complexities of Venezuela a year after the death of Hugo Chvez.
Andy Jones analyses UKIPs breakthrough in the European elections against the background of an
increasingly toxic mainstream debate on immigration. The perplexities of the contemporary radical left are
explored by Alex Callinicos, who tracks these back to the relative absence of offensive workers struggles,
Donny Gluckstein assesses classical Marxisms response to reformism and John Rose recalls the tangled
political struggles in Ukraine in the aftermath of the October Revolution.
Anne Alexander reviews two important Marxist studies of the Arab revolutions. Tom Tengely-Evans takes
on Thomas Pikettys much hyped Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Other books reviewed this quarter
concern George Orwell, genocide, women and war, anti-fascism, early learning, education in China, social
media and the redoubtable black activist Darcus Howe.
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