We have included here, in no particular order, a list of longer reads that map out the contours of a revolutionary socialist theoretical tradition responsive to the latest debates on the left. As Marxism is a living body of thought, and as we ourselves are continually in the process of defining our theoretical position, we have also included some writings from beyond the International Socialist tradition.
The ABCs of Marxism
Chris Harman, How Marxism Works (1979)
Hal Draper, The Two Souls of Socialism (1966)
Alex Callinicos, The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983)
John Molyneux, What is the Real Marxist Tradition? (1983)
Anti-Stalinism
Tony Cliff, State Capitalism in Russia (1955)
James Robertson, ‘Socialism, yes, occupation, no! Czechoslovakia 1968’ (2008)
Imperialism and War
Chris Harman, ‘Analysing Imperialism’ (2003)
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism (1917)
John Rose, Israel: The Hijack State (1986)
Joseph Choonara, ‘The Devastation of Ukraine: NATO, Russia and Imperialism’ (2022)
Tithi Bhattacharya and Gareth Dale, ‘Is BRICS+ an Anti-Colonial Formation Worth Cheering From the Left? Far From It‘ (2023)
Adrian Budd, ‘China and Imperialism in the 21st Century’ (2021)
Anti-racism
James Supple, ‘Why Socialists Support Open Borders’ (2013)
Stuart Hall, Policing the Crisis (1978)
Sivamohan Valluvan, The Clamour of Nationalism (2019)
Anti-Colonialism
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)
Andrew Geddis, He ara tika ki te tino rangatiratanga : decolonisation and class (1997)
Gender and sexism
Marnie Holborrow, ‘Capitalism and the Home’ (2020).
Queer, including trans, liberation
Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke, Transgender Marxism (2021).
Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022). Read a review here.
Hazel Croft, ‘Care, Consent and Coercion Under Capitalism‘ (2018)
Climate justice and Ecosocialism
Salvage Collective, The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene (2020)
Richard Seymour, ‘Duel and duality, or, degrowth and dialectics’ (2023)
Stale Holgersen, ‘Neither Productivism Nor Degrowth’ (2023)
Disability
Roddy Slorach, ‘Marxism and Disability’
David Matthews, ‘Mental Illness and Capitalism’ (2023)
Socialist Aotearoa 