Building the Backlash – The Rise of the “Manosphere”
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to buy/subscribe. “Your body, my choice.” “Get back in the kitchen.” These short, threatening phrases exploded on the internet in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s reelection to the U.S. presidency. The misogynist online […]
Lessons From U.S. History: The Reactionary Wave After World War I
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to buy/subscribe. The world is in chaos. The inter-imperialist conflict between the United States and China is escalating with intense pace. Alongside this, we are seeing the rise of right and far-right forces […]
Lessons from History: How the Brazilian Dictatorship Was Overthrown
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to buy/subscribe. Forty years ago, a civilian became president of Brazil after 21 years of military dictatorship. José Sarney’s March 1985 inauguration is officially seen as marking the end of the military regime. […]
Lessons from History: What is Fascism?
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to subscribe or to buy a copy of issue #2 which is newly released. In Alice Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty states that, “When I use a word, it means just what […]
“Long Live the King” – Trumpism, Bonapartism and the New Era
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to subscribe, or buy issue #2, which is going to press around the world today. In the first volume of Leon Trotsky’s essential book, History of the Russian Revolution, he comments briefly on the role […]
Britain and the Rise of Reform UK
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to buy/subscribe. A superficial reading would suggest that Britain is bucking the global political trend with the victory of Labour in last year’s General Election. In reality, Britain’s home-grown Trumpism is finding fertile […]
A Polarized Germany: Rising Right Poses Danger As Left Responds
This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to buy/subscribe. The extreme right AfD (“Alternative for Germany”) party received 20.8% of the vote in the general elections in February. Opinion polls a month later saw them rising to 23% support while […]
The Rising Right – Introducing International Marxism Issue #1
Editorial: From Seoul to Istanbul – Growing Mass Struggle Against a Rising Right Click here to buy/subscribe today. Issue #1 of International Marxism tackles the subject of the rise of the right in the 2020s, a phenomenon which is crucial to understand in the current world situation, dominated by the re-election of Donald Trump and its […]
