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Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics

Alex Callinicos — 2022-04-21T09:37:46Z

This reflection on Daniel Bensaïd's work was made at a seminar organized in 2012 in the International Institute of Research and Education in Amsterdam.

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Daniel Bensaid

Should the left back intervention in Libya?

Alex Callinicos — 2011-04-04T13:49:43Z

Alex Callinicos published this comment on the 29th of March on Socialist Workker Online.

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Libya, Arab Revolutions, Libya NFZ

Where is the radical left going?

Alex Callinicos — 2008-11-24T22:16:34Z

In the past couple of years the fortunes of the radical left have diverged sharply. The most important case on the negative side was provided by the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista in Italy.... Fortunately, there are more positive experiences. The most exciting of these has been the initiative taken by the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire to launch a New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).

- IV406 - November 2008 / France

Why our German friends are wrong on EU Constitution

2005-05-27T18:59:57Z

Well-known left intelllectuals reply to Jürgen Habermas, Günter Grass and Wolf Biermann, who in a Le Monde op-ed had called for leftist and progressives in Europe to vote 'Yes' in Sunday's French referendum on the European Constitution.

- IV367 - May 2005 / Europe, Daniel Bensaid

"In this case you have no influence on me..."

Alex Callinicos — 2005-01-26T19:10:26Z

Alex Callinicos resumes his polemical exchange with Gilbert Achcar: "You are very keen to discover (in my case imaginary) inconsistencies in others, yet your own position is hardly straightforward".

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Iraq

Letter to Gilbert Achcar

Alex Callinicos — 2005-01-23T15:09:18Z

Alex Callinicos takes issue with Gilbert Achcar's article on the preparations for the Iraq elections, published on the this site (Issue 363) and on ZNet.

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Iraq

Building on the Success of the London ESF

Alex Callinicos — 2004-12-28T14:22:36Z

Alex Callinicos argues for the continued primacy of the fight against imperialism in the ESF process.

- Debate / Europe, Social Forum

The European Radical Left Tested Electorally

Alex Callinicos — 2004-12-09T00:00:00Z

Alex Callinicos, of the SWP, looks at how the radical left performed in the recent European elections and draws some lessons on how the left should organise.

- Building new parties of the left / New parties of the left

The future of the revolutionary left

Alain Krivine, Alex Callinicos — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Alain Krivine, main spokesperson of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), spoke in July at the London 'Marxism' event, organised by the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), on the 'future of the revolutionary left'. Here we publish his speech, together with the contribution made in the discussion by Alex Callinicos, an SWP leader.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Debate section

The anti-capitalist movement and the revolutionary left

Alex Callinicos — 2001-06-03T00:00:00Z

In the following article, which has been shortened for space reasons, Alex Callinicos, a leader of Britain's Socialist Workers Party, explains his party's viewpoint on the new world situation.

- IV332 - June 2001 / Marxism, World, Global Justice