International Socialism Journal

Joseph Choonara describes the unprecedented wave of global solidarity with the Palestinians and how it is interacting with the shifting power dynamics within the regime to erode the Israeli state’s role as a key guarantor of Western interests. isj.org.uk/war-and-resist…

Join us on Friday 10 May for a discussion with Anne Alexander on article in the new issue of International Socialism, exploring the decline of US imperialism, the development of new military technologies such as drones, and shifts in the political economy of the Middle East.

Anne Alexander explores the political economy driving inter-imperialist rivalry in the Middle East, from the drone warfare competition between Iran and Turkey to the relationship between Israel's high-tech industry and its slaughter in Gaza. isj.org.uk/revisiting-imp…

Simon Assaf analyses Israel's war drive against Hezbollah in the new International Socialism: "Lebanon is in the crosshairs of imperialism. Yet, the prospect of the Gaza war spilling over Israel’s northern border is causing unease among Western leaders." isj.org.uk/hezbollah-face…

In our new issue: Joseph Choonara explores the growing tensions between the US establishment and Israel, how the Gaza genocide threatens to destabilise US power in the Middle East, and how public opinion across the world is shifting against Israel. isj.org.uk/gaza-carnage-a…

We mourn the sad death of Paul Burkett, an outstanding Marxist ecologist and author of Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. Here's Paul's article (co-written with John Bellamy Foster) for International Socialism in 2017: isj.org.uk/value-isnt-eve…

Joseph Choonara's article in the new issue of International Socialism looks at the bloody history of Zionism and the Palestinian resistance against it over the past 100 years. isj.org.uk/second-nakba

"The slaughter has been accompanied by a rising drumbeat of racist and ­genocidal rhetoric across the Israeli political spectrum." In the new issue of International Socialism, Rob Ferguson looks at the rise of the Zionist far right. isj.org.uk/roadmap-to-gen…

Rob Ferguson's article on Israel's roadmap to genocide is now available in German. Thank you to Rosemarie Nünning. isj.org.uk/roadmap-zum-ge…

Rest in power.

***We'll be launching our new issue next week on Friday 12 January at 7pm in Bookmarks the socialist bookshop in Central London.*** Rob Ferguson, Joseph Choonara and others will be discussing their articles in the new edition of International Socialism.

Joseph Choonara's article in the forthcoming issue of International Socialism looks at the bloody history of Zionism, asking what we mean by "settler colonialism" and detailing 100 years of Palestinian resistance. isj.org.uk/second-nakba

A statement from the Union for Radical Political Economics. urpe.org/2023/11/08/eco…

STOP THE MASSACRE! Monday 13th November, 18.30. Holloway Road, London. Be there!

I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

Thanks to Lam Chi Leung for this translation of our interview with Toufic Haddad and Ilan Pappé. tinyurl.com/3dy6whas

John Rose's Israel - The Hijack State is *the* seminal Marxist text on the role of Israel in Western domination over the Middle East. Read it here: marxists.org/history/etol/d…

Rest in peace.

Arguments...that all violence, including revolutionary violence, is evil and that communists therefore ought not to engage in "glorification" of armed struggle, amount to a philosophy worthy of Quakers and the old maids of the Salvation Army. - Leon Trotsky.

A half-day event exploring the criminalisation of civil rights and the crisis in police-public relations. festivalofsocialscience.com/events/is-it-a…