International Socialism 142

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In the latest issue we discuss the legacy of the Great Miners Strike of 1984-5. The shadow of the strike still hangs over current efforts to resist austerity. To mark the 30th anniversary of this epic struggle, Dave Hayes reconstructs the role played by the Socialist Workers Party. The decisive factor in the miners defeat was the success of the trade union bureaucracy in blocking the tactics that could have won. Ralph Darlington restates the SWPs theory of the antagonism between rank and file and bureaucracy and argues that it still provides the best guide to revolutionary trade unionism today. And Mark OBrien discusses the limitations of one-day strikes. In analysis Alex Callinicos analyses the main contours of the conflict over Ukraine dramatised by Russias seizure of Crimea. The crisis reminds us that, a hundred years after the outbreak of the First World War, rivalries among the imperialist powers continue to dominate international politics. Philip Marfleet gives a progress report on the Egyptian Revolution nine months after the military coup that seems set to launch Field Marshal el-Sisis presidency. Esme Choonara and Yuri Prasad continue our discussion of the politics of oppression with a critical examination of privilege theory and the influential idea of intersectionality. Joseph Choonara gives a qualified welcome to Costas Lapavitsass major study of the role of finance in contemporary capitalism. Neil Davidson defends his attempt to rethink the theory of bourgeois revolution. And Alex Callinicos rediscovers the strengths of the late Stuart Halls interpretation of Marxism. Ieuan Churchill diagnoses the oscillation of green thinkers between adaptation and despair. We also review books about working for Ford, Marxism and the struggle against racism, capitalism and sport, the military and revolutionary politics, early Jewish history, and African social movements.

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