THE FUTURE PRESENT

A new critical Marxist review of class and society

 

The Future Present offers critical Marxist analysis of class and society, in the UK and internationally.  Our Review is a forum for people who want to strengthen the activism of the present, for the renewal and recomposition of the communist movement, and for those who wish to replace global capitalism with a genuinely human emancipatory communism.  

The pilot issue includes exclusive translations from Russian, Ukrainian, German and Italian with rare Marxist texts published for the first time in English.

Issue No.1 includes:

 

·         Gregor Gall Creating Coalitions against the Cuts

·         Kim Moody How should socialists relate to a new social movements

·         Andrew Kliman  lies, Damned Lies, and Underconsumptionist Statistics

·         Erik Swyngedouw The Communist Hypothesis in the 21st century

 

GLOBAL REVOLUTONARY STRATEGY IN the 21st century

·         Aleksandr Tarasov  World Revolution 2 the Return to a Global Revolutionary Strategy Based on the Experience of the 20th Century

·         Emiliano Alessandroni  Libya, Gramsci and Historical Dogmatism

·         Kevin Anderson  The Arab Revolution at the Crossroads

 

Anthology   Communism And the national Question: past, present and future

·         Allan Armstrong Communism and   ‘Internationalism from Below’

·         Maggie Chetty  Working towards an independent, republican, socialist Scotland  

·         Joan Josep Nuet i Pujals National State; Popular Catalanism Through Self-Determination

·         Dan Jakopovich The Interdependence of Nationalisms,  and the Struggle for a Left Alternative 

·         Goran Markovic National Question and Nationalism in Yugoslavia, What went wrong?

·         Zakhar Popovych  Ukrainian capitalism and Russification

·         Moshé Machover The Middle East – Still at The Crossroads

·         Muhsin Kareem   Communism, nationalism and  the Independence of Kurdistan 

·         Ivan Dzyuba The Future of Nations; Nations under Communism

 

The first english translation of the lev yurkevych – lenin debate On the National

·         Chris Ford Lev Yurkevych: A Sketch of a forgotten Marxist

·         Lev Yurkevych Jesuit Politics (1914)

·         Lev Yurkevych The Russian Social Democrats and the national Question (1917)

 

Further information available at:   thefuturepresent.webs.com

 

The journal will be available in most radical bookshops and at labour movement events.  Copies can be obtained by post for £6.00(UK) each including postage.  €5 (Eurozone) ,  $6 (Canada)