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REVIEW |  A Stranger in Your Own City – Travels in the Middle East’s Long War

April 23, 2024 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland)

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, born in Iraq in the 1970s, began writing for the London Guardian and the Washington Post after the US led invasion in 2003. A Stranger in Your Own City starkly, and often beautifully, […]

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The Long Game – Inside Sinn Féin

December 2, 2023 Niall Mulholland

Sinn Féin is consistently polling ahead in the Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland it is the biggest party. When the Assembly is restored in the North, and in the aftermath of the next […]

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‘The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way for Fascism’

August 19, 2023 Paul Kershaw,  Socialism Today (issue 268 June 2023)

The age of austerity is clearly not over as capitalist politicians of all persuasions compete to manage economic crisis in the interest of the capitalist class. PAUL KERSHAW reviews a book that places economic austerity […]

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The ‘Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’

July 8, 2023 Sean Figg, CWI

“Democratic capitalism” is in crisis, warns Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, in his new book. Such is the severity of this crisis its very survival is in question. Wolf confirms early […]

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Book review: It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, by Bernie Sanders

June 5, 2023 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe

At a time of increasing turmoil in the US and globally, Bernie Sanders has produced a devastating critique of capitalism. But unfortunately, not with a clear path to a real socialist and democratic alternative. This […]

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‘Empire of Pain’ – The Sackler dynasty and the opioid crisis

December 31, 2022 Niall Mulholland

Visitors to museums and educational establishments, such as the V&A Museum in London and Oxford University, will be acquainted with the name of Sackler. This is the billionaire family from America which, for decades, has […]

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Exposing the bloodsuckers: the role of commodity traders in ‘modern’ capitalism

June 19, 2021 Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (June 2021 issue), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources is an impressive, illuminating analysis of the corrosive rottenness and the corruption of ‘modern’ world capitalism. It couldn’t have come at […]

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