Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
Patrick Iber In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, «I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’». Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil […]
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A shelter in the tempest of history
Terry Eaglton Far from being dead, socialism is as relevant as it’s ever been – its task being to resist the fascism, mayhem and savagery resulting from the inevitable crises of the inherently unstable and self-destructive system of global capitalism. The soothsayer seeks to predict the future in order to control it. He peers […]
Ukraine’s Fractures
First published in: Ukraine’s Fractures. An interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko. In: New Left Review 87, May-June 2014 Since the start of the Maidan protests six months ago, Ukraine has been at the centre of a crisis which has exposed and deepened the fault-lines—geopolitical, historical, linguistic, cultural—that traverse the country. These divisions have grown through the […]
MADE IN DAGENHAM
Вперше опубліковано в: Спільне, №6, 2013: Гендер і праця 7 червня 1968 року 187 швачок-машиністок з автомобілебудівного заводу «Форд» у Дагенхемі (передмістя у Східному Лондоні) оголосили страйк проти дискримінації за гендерною ознакою в оплаті праці на виробництві. Робітниці вимагали дорівняти їхню роботу (пошиття чохлів для автомобільних сидінь) до категорії С (напівкваліфікована праця), яку мали чоловіки, […]
Support Ukrainians, but do not legitimize the far-right and discredited politicians!
Volodymyr Ishchenko Recently a number of internationally recognized scholars and public intellectuals signed a letter in full support of Euromaidan protests, backing ‘Ukrainian society’ against ‘Ukrainian government’. Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Craig Calhoun, Claus Offe, Saskia Sassen, Charles Taylor, Michel Wieviorka, Slavoj Zizek and many others celebrated the ‘legal’ and ‘peaceful’ protests embodying, as they claimed, ‘the […]
Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
An article by an Australian Wobbly sex worker advocating solidarity and syndicalism. Orginally published in the Autumn issue of Direct Action, the newspaper of the Australian IWW. Reprinted in issue #1745, May 2012, of the IWW’s newspaper Industrial Worker. An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex […]
Three Sources of Ukraine’s “Freedom”: Nationalism, Xenophobia and the “Social Issue”
Vitaly Atanasov In the last three years, the popularity of Ukraine’s right-wing party Svoboda (Freedom) has seen an eightfold increase. At the moment, the party is supported by 6% of the country’s population, though it seems unlikely that anything might prevent the party overcoming the 3% level in the parliamentary election next year. Until 2004, […]
Twenty years after the wall fell
One of our editors, Volodymyr Ishchenko, interviewed by British newspaper “The Commune” What was the society that existed before 1989-91, and was its collapse the historic victory of capitalism over communism? There are a lot of rather boring discussions in the left-wing movement on “class nature” of USSR, whether it was “state capitalism”, a “degenerated […]
About “Russian” trace in Odessa events
A tragic death, which took place on April 17 in Odessa, of Maksim Chaika, a right-wing football fan and one of the leaders of a radical nationalist organization “SICH”, has immediately lead to heated discussions on the Internet. Whereas everything is clear for the closest companions of the killed: “the white warrior” had perished in […]
