Book Review: Democracy: Crisis and Renewal
A system in crisis There were two remarkable things about the Lisbon Treaty referendum that have been almost completely ignored by the men and women whose job it is to chew over Irish politics on...
View ArticleItaly’s Red Decade
In two superb essays published in the London Review of Books recently, Perry Anderson describes the politics of Italy’s Second Republic in the context of the consolidation of power by Silvio Berlusconi...
View ArticleRevolution in Italy 1943 – 1948
In the second pamphlet on Italy from the archives of the Irish Socialist Network, which I’m republishing here to coincide with the two recent Perry Anderson essays on the Italian centre right and its...
View ArticleThe Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
Book Review: Tariq Ali: The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power A country in crisis Everything seems to be “on the brink” or “standing at the crossroads” in world politics these days....
View ArticleBook Review: Renewing Socialism by Leo Panitch
The Left has often been accused of not understanding economics properly. So it’s been no small pleasure over the last year to see the guardians of neo-liberal orthodoxy thrashing around helplessly in a...
View ArticleExtract from A Force for Progress? Five Myths About the European Union
The following is an extract from the ISN pamphlet A Force for Progress? Five Myths About the European Union. which was launched earlier on this week by Harry Browne at Connolly Books. The European...
View ArticleDepression: Does a major economic crisis always and inevitably benefit the Left?
When the world financial system looked as if it might collapse in the autumn of 2008, many people assumed that there would have to be drastic changes in the wake of the crisis. Nothing would...
View ArticleMorbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Socialist Register 2010 – Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism (Merlin Press) Ed: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys. There’s been some excellent work published on the many faults of the Irish health...
View ArticleUnfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto
Book Review: Max Lane, Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto, Verso, 2008 There was a time when everyone seemed to be talking about Indonesia. Well, they were talking about it on Joe...
View ArticlePanitch and Harvey Provide Essential Primers on the Financial Crisis
Book Review: In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo (PM Press, May 2010) & The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of...
View ArticleBook Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn
One of the secret weapons of the occupation forces in Iraq has been the sheer danger of reporting on the conflict. The occupiers themselves have attacked the local offices of Al-Jazeera, the...
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