Nearly 100 years after the release of Metropolis (1927, Dir. Fritz Lang) Jean O’Donnell casts a critical eye over its seemingly revolutionary politics, revealing little more than neutered compromise. Metropolis (1927, Dir. Fritz Lang) is arguably one of the most famous and influential silent films to survive to the modern day. Visual references to it […]

This is the sixth part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. Sraffa’s distinction between basic and non-basic commodities is essential to our explanation of the energy crisis as a response to working class attack on capitalist accumulation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, there is one […]

Thomas Tews On Wednesday, 1 April, US President Donald Trump attended an Easter lunch in the East Room of the White House. During the event, Trump called Somalia “just terrible” and “probably the worst, most dangerous country” with “no government” and “no police”. In his view, Somalis “have no money, no nothing” and “just shoot each other […]

Following Victorian Trades Hall Council’s 2026 International Working Women’s Day rally in Melbourne, Pauline Slaughter writes on the necessity of a unified communist women’s movement. The decline of the international communist movement has coincided with a similar decline in the political consciousness of the women’s movement. Even while the conditions of working women, and, in […]

The following is the fourth and final chapter of V.I. Lenin’s pamphlet The Attitude of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Towards the War, which is usually published under the name Socialism and War, originally printed in 1915. In it, Lenin outlines the stakes of the struggle between Marxism and opportunism in the Russian party, beginning […]

This is the fourth part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. The divergence of prices from values shows how there is a possibility of an energy price rise versus other prices without abandoning a work exploitation analysis of capitalism. For by investment in the High sector to escape […]

International Socialist Alternative (Revolutionary), Online Editor’s note: This letter was previously published online via Cosmonaut Magazine. We are a group of recently expelled members from the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). We are united by the conviction that liberal misleadership is holding back the power of our class, and that Marxists have to fight this misleadership, […]

Katherine Weiss, Brisbane (Meanjin) As ANZAC day rapidly approaches, we mustn’t forget that a mere three days after is Workers Memorial Day – an international day of remembrance not taught in the classrooms. This day is of exceeding importance however, as the corpses of workers young and old pile up year after year as workers […]

This is the third part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. What was the relation between state and society during the “Keynesian” period? What distinguished US Keynesian planning was its concern with the reproductive sector, because US capital did not have an experienced working class whose production and […]

The following is the third chapter of V.I. Lenin’s pamphlet The Attitude of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Towards the War, which is usually published under the name Socialism and War, originally printed in 1915. – Edith Fischer, Editor How should the International be restored? But first, a few words about how the International should […]

This is the second part of our publication of George Caffentzis’ essay concerning the Oil Shock of 1973. To decode the messages of the apocalypse we should see that both the anti-limitationists and the interactionists demand a complete change in the mode of production. They are “revolutionaries” because they fear something in the present mode […]

The following is the second chapter of V.I. Lenin’s pamphlet The Attitude of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Towards the War, which is usually published under the name Socialism and War, originally printed in 1915. – Edith Fischer, Editor The bourgeoisie and the war To one respect, the Russian government has not lagged behind its […]