Marxist theory

Nature, development and inequality: are women the last colony?

By Pat Brewer

Back to good old Marx in the brave new world of globalisation

By Dipankar Bhattacharya

Axes of Marxist internationalism

By Murray Smith

The nature of Islamic fundamentalism

By Lisa Macdonald

The united front today

By Nick McKerrell

Regroupment and the socialist left today

By Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos is a leader of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. His most recent book is Against the Third Way: an anti-capitalist critique.

Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy

By Jonathan Strauss

I. The theory of the labour aristocracy

The Marxist left's politics of alliances at the beginning of the 21st century

By Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera

What happened in globalisation?

By Humphrey McQueen

Humphrey McQueen is a leading Marxist writer in Australia and an activist in the Socialist Alliance. A version of this article appeared in the Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 51 (Jime 2003).

CONTENTS

Globalising capitals

Labour times

Money-capital

Commodity-capital

Production-capital

The nation-market-state

Summing up

Notes

The rise and malaise of postmodernism

By Jeremy Smith

CONTENTS

After the 1960s

The post-structuralist origins of postmodernism

Monopoly capitalism and the bribery of the labour aristocracy

By Jonathan Strauss

The labour aristocracy in monopoly capitalism

The sources of monopoly superprofits

The bribe and other causes of working-class material differentiation

The bribe as a mass social relationship

Incorporation and integration

Notes

The Venezuelan revolution and the need for solidarity

Stuart Munckton is the national coordinator of the Australian socialist youth organisation Resistance. This the text of a talk presented to a Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) educational conference in January 2005.

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