Systemic crisis or business as usual: Analyses of the current crisis oscillate between these
two poles. But neither is capitalism as such in crisis, nor can the form of capitalist …

The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the subsequent transitions have
commonly been interpreted in political terms, as movements towards democracy, or in …

The eastern European revolutions of 1989 and the fall of the Stalinist regimes were treated
by many analysts and commentators as signalling the end of the contemporary form of social …

This article makes a distinction between a 'type I'passive revolution, which transforms the
relations of production, and a 'type II'passive revolution, which modifies the existing …

(The question) is one… of seeing whether'what ought to be'is arbitrary or necessary;
whether it is concrete will on the one hand or idle fancy, yearning, daydream on the other …

It is my intention, by this optimistic title, to mark the need for a newly revised and
reformulated language of liberation. To explain this idea, let me begin with two distinct and …

Tad Tietze & Elizabeth Humphrys: “Anti-politics” and the return of the social – A reply to Alex
Callinicos (Autumn 2014) ISJ 2 Index | Main Newspaper Index Encyclopedia of Trotskyism …

The main political reference points in opposition to neoliberalism today–the constituent
organizations of the Party of the European Left, the platforms associated with the left …

This article addresses what it identifies as the over-extension of the concept of passive
revolution in recent writing on international political economy. It traces the evolution of the …

In Eastern Europe, 1989–2009 has been a time of fundamental changes in the meaning of
social and political concepts, accompanied at different speeds by the radical transformation …