New Interventions, Socialist Discussion Journal. Latest Issue.

“New Interventions is a socialist magazine, independent of any party of any left group. Our aim is to provide an open forum for all shades of radical left opinion.”

The latest issue could be best begun with the Afterword – Arthur Trusscott’s “Riots: Fish Rot From the Head”. Written in the thick of the disturbances he notes that “Unlike some anarchists, who see the riots as a carnival of the oppressed, socialists cannot be so sanguine.” He observes, that “innocent people are hurt and even killed..” In a strong polemic Arthur dissects the whole complex of events unfurling in the “rottenness of British capitalism.”

Amongst other contributions…

Issac Deutscher is the subject of a major article by Mike Jones and Alister Mitchell. This study offers a fresh view of  a “heretic” for both Official Communism and Trotskyism.

A translation of Theodor Bergman’s The Tragedy of Paul Levi provides a valuable account of one of Rosa Luxemburg’s comrades.

Mike Jones discusses the results of the Kosovo NATO intervention, describing the existing “gangster state” in ways bound to annoy more than a few. Chris Gray attacks Orthodox Trotskyism and the myth of ‘Pabloism’.

Paul Flewers is rude about the New College of Humanities.

Terry Liddle discusses the ‘New Atheism’.

 And Andrew Coates writes a long review article on Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals -(originally published on this Blog – here).

New Interventions is only available in print (!). Subs £10 for four issues. 116 Hugh Road, Coventry CV3 1AF. UK.

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