David Cameron’s Attack on Health and Safety
By Richard Abernethy
January 15, 2012 -- “So one of the Coalition’s New Year resolutions is this: kill off the health and safety culture for good”. So declares British prime minister, David Cameron, in an article in the London Evening Standard (5 January 2012). Cameron boasts of “waging war against the excessive health and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses”. READ IN FULL
The Elusive “Threads of Historical Progress”: The Early Chartists and the Young Marx and Engels
By David Black
The Chartist movement of the 1830s and 1840s went beyond 18th century popular radicalism toward socialism. Leaders like George Julian Harney not only called for social revolution but also published Helen Macfarlane’s first English translation of the Communist Manifesto. This article was first published in Platypus Review No. 42 (Dec. 2011-Jan. 2012).
On Hegel, Rosa Luxemburg and Marxist-Humanism
By David Black
On Hegel’s Dialectic of the “Beautiful Soul” in the French Revolution and the question of “ethical reality” in the political philosophies of Rosa Luxemburg, Raya Dunayevskaya and Gillian Rose; originally presented at a panel on “Marxism Beyond the Boundaries,” sponsored by The Hobgoblin Online Journal and the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, London, November 11, 2010 – Editors READ IN FULL
The revolutionary movements of the year 2011, above all in the Arab countries, and the life and thought of Rosa Luxemburg, are connected. Presented at the Anarchist Book Fair, London READ IN FULL