International Socialism Journal – Number 134

Socialism and Hope

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL – NUMBER 134 

Now Out!

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Analysis

Rumours of crisis, revolution and war
Alex Callinicos

Interview – Greece: the struggle radicalises

France: anti-capitalist politics in crisis

The politics of the Scottish independence referendum
Neil Davidson

The shock of the new: anti-capitalism and the crisis
Jonny Jones

‘Most humble day’: the Murdoch empire on the defensive
John Newsinger

The growth paradigm: a critique
Gareth Dale

Housing: as it is, and as it might be
David Renton

Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary life
Leo Zeilig

The late Christopher Hitchens
Richard Seymour

Feedback

Explaining the crisis or heresy hunting? A response to Joseph Choonara
David McNally

The Morales government: neoliberalism in disguise?
Federico Fuentes

Letter to the editor: Libya
Gilbert Achcar

Book Reviews

Race and class in the US
Nicola Ginsburgh

After the fall
Gabriele Piazza

Materialism vs creationism
Amy Gilligan

Thought for food
Dave Sewell

Another social work is possible
Francesca Byron

How green was my valley?
Tim Evans

Nude, shrewd but sometimes crude
Joseph Choonara

Remembering E P Thompson
Christian Hogsbjerg

Pick of the quarter

This quarter’s selection

 

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International Socialism Journal – Issue 130

World Crisis

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL – ISSUE 130

Now Out

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Analysis

The return of the Arab revolution
Alex Callinicos

Engels on the power of nature

The return of fear
Iain Ferguson

Tunisia: the people’s revolution
Chamseddine Mnasri

Act One of the Egyptian Revolution
Philip Marfleet

Social media and social movements
Jonny Jones

The origins of the united front policy
John Riddell

The Tories, Eton and private schools
David Renton

I love the sound of breaking glass: the London crowd, 1760-2010
Keith Flett

Feedback

Facing the crisis: the strategic perplexity of the left
Stathis Kouvelakis

Sexuality, alienation and capitalism
Sheila McGregor

Counterpower, participatory democracy, revolutionary defence: debating Black Flame, revolutionary anarchism and historical Marxism
Lucien van der Walt

The social roots of “impairment”
Lee Humber

Book reviews

We want rebel music
Lee Billingham

Natural’s not in it
Martin Empson

State of the union
Chris Bambery

Forgotten famine
John Newsinger

Africa’s opening
Andy Wynne

Pick of the quarter
This quarter’s selection

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International Socialism Journal 124

Capitalism in Crisis

International Socialism Journal 124 

The new issue of International Socialism journal (issue 124) is out now. This issue includes:

• Peyman Jafari on Rupture and revolt in Iran.
• Special collection on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, featuring Gareth Dale on the East German Revolution and Adam Fabry on the fate of Eastern Europe since 1989.
• Oliver Nachtwey on the rise of the German left party Die Linke.
• Interview with Michael Bradley and Charlie Kimber on the latest phase of class struggle in Britain.
• Andrew Kliman reviews Chris Harman’s latest book, Zombie Capitalism.
• John Molyneux gives his views on democracy and Leninist organisation.
• Neil Davidson examines Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine.
• David Renton on the rise of the industrial tribunal system.

• Joseph Choonara on Goldman Sachs’s estimates of profit rates.
• Plus: reviews, analysis and pick of the quarter.

To browse through the full content, go to http://www.isj.org.uk
To order copies, email isj@swp.org.uk or phone 020 7819 1177. 
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1649 and the Execution of King Charles

1649 and the Execution of King Charles

30 January 1649 is the day when King Charles 1st was beheaded and the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, the foundation of modern Parliamentary democracy, came into effective being. It was a revolutionary moment and it brought onto the historical stage people, ideas and movements that went well beyond anything that Cromwell and the senior leadership of the New Model Army had in mind. Brian Manning, in his seminal book on 1649, notes that this was a year when popular mobilisations did not happen. There was no popular uprising to mark the Commonwealth, and no popular protest at the execution of the King. There was however an Army revolt at Burford, also celebrating its anniversary this year, which was brutally put down by Cromwell. 1649 was also the year when Cromwell landed in Dublin to initiate brutal episodes in Ireland.

This conference will look at the liberties and democratic practices ushered in by 1649 and at those who wanted to take them further.

1649 and the Execution of King Charles

Saturday 7 February 2009
Venue: Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London.

Programme

9.30 – Registration (Wolfson Room)

10.00-11.15 Welcome and Keynote addresses (Wolfson Room)
Chair: Keith Flett, LSHG
Geoffrey Robertson, author of The Tyrannicide Brief
John Rees, author of A Rebel’s Guide to Milton, forthcoming

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 PANEL ONE: Cromwell’s coalition and its critics (Wolfson Room)
Chair: David Renton, LSHG
Martyn Everett, ‘The Agitators – between Rebellion and Reaction’
Dr. Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths College, ‘Early modern Communism: the
Diggers and community of goods’

11.30-12.30 PANEL TWO: 1649 in contemporary eyes (Pollard Room)
Chair: Tobas Abse, LSHG
Claudia Guli, University of Melbourne, ‘Historical Precedent in Contemporary Justifications of the Trial of Charles I’
Ángel Alloza, CSIC (Spain), ‘”An Outrageous Incident”: the execution of Kings Charles seen from Abroad’

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.30 PANEL THREE: The regicide, terror and Restoration (Pollard Room)
Chair: David Renton, LSHG
Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, ‘”Original Villany”:
Foundational Terrorism’
Alan Marshall, Bath Spa University, ‘The Trials of Thomas Harrison, regicide’

1.30-2.30 PANEL FOUR: The Republic and something more (Wolfson Room)
Chair: Paul Burnham, LSHG
Alejandro Doering De Rio, Queen’s College Cambridge, ‘James Harrington as a theorist of political of equality’
Dr John Seed, Roehampton University, ‘The politics of remembering: the execution of Charles I in C18th England’

2.30-2.45 Coffee

2.45-4.00 Closing Plenary (Wolfson Room)
Chair: Keith Flett
Norah Carlin, author of The Causes of the English Civil War
Geoff Kennedy, author of Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism

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