THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
The slump of the 1930s and the crisis today
ISJ January 2009 – Chris Harman
“We are on the edge of the abyss. One slip and we will be into depression like that of the early 1930s.” That message has been repeated a thousand times in one way or another since the banking system imploded and stock markets sank in September and October 2008. However, there has been very little real analysis of what produced the great slump or of the real comparisons with the situation today . . . MORE
Marxist accounts of the current crisis
ISJ June 2009 – Joseph Choonara
Just as medical science progresses through pathology, Marxist political economy develops through the analysis of the actual crises of capitalism. It is therefore no surprise that the current paroxysm has sparked both a revival of interest in Marxism1 and a flurry of responses by prominent Marxists . . . MORE
ALEX CALLINICOS AND SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK DEBATE THE QUESTION
“What does it mean to be a revolutionary today?”
Part 1: Alex Callinicos
Part 2: Slavoj Žižek
