In recent weeks startling headlines have charted falls on the world's stock markets amid fears about the state of the world economy. Take a small sample from the financial pages of The Guardian: "Markets tumble in Europe and New York [...]
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Corbynomics and socialist strategy
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn emerged as a potential victor in the election for the leadership of the Labour Party, I have argued that socialists have a duty to orientate towards the Labour Party. The alternative is to stand aside from [...]
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Marxists and the Labour Party
The following article is one in a series of personal viewpoints offered by members and supporters of the Independent Socialist Network, assessing the new situation brought about by the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. As [...]
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The Corbyn Phenomenon
In the single most significant development in the labour movement since the miners' strike of 1984/5, Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for Labour Party leader looks set to transform the rules of the game for socialist and working class politics in Britain. Corbyn's [...]
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Karl Marx and the First International
The launch of this issue of The Project coincides with international workers' day. It is therefore appropriate to assess one of the formative experiences of working class internationalism. On September 28 1864 a public meeting in St Martin's Hall in London brought together British, French [...]
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Syriza’s gambit comes unstuck– what next?
Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government’s finance minister, and self-defined ‘libertarian Marxist’, is an expert in game theory in his academic career. That might have been expected to give him something of an advantage in the game of chicken that unfolded [...]
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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition: Moving towards a party?
The conference of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition on Saturday 24 January, called to prepare for May’s general election and the council elections on the same day, could easily have descended into a fairly routine rally with the audience [...]
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Review of ‘Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism’ by David Harvey
David Harvey, an English professor in the United States, is one of the most influential practitioners of Marxist political economy. From The Limits of Capital (1982) to The Enigma of Capital (2010), his books have won a wide readership and [...]
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Reflections on Left Unity
The political initiative that became Left Unity was launched barely two years ago in response to an appeal from Ken Loach. Its founding conference took place just a year ago. What are the prospects for this latest in a long [...]
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