Alex Callinicos
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
The BBC really chose a good moment to censor the Reith lecture about Trump’s corruption. Swiss bosses tried to sweeten him for a better trade deal with gifts of a Rolex clock and a gold bar.
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The BBC really chose a good moment to censor the Reith lecture about Trump’s corruption. Swiss bosses tried to sweeten him for a better trade deal with gifts of a Rolex clock and a gold bar.
Good sense on the budget from Michael Roberts thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/u...
UK: the ‘make or break’ budget
The UK had an apparently important financial event today. The Labour government’s finance minister (called the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a feudal royal term), Rachel Reeves presented the g…
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November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Good sense on the budget from Michael Roberts thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/u...
Excellent obituary of Jack Shepherd by Michael Coveney. What a career! I wish I’d seen him playing Dracula in his own adaptation. I like this: ‘Like Bill Nighy, he was not really an Elizabethan hose and ruff sort of performer.’
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Excellent obituary of Jack Shepherd by Michael Coveney. What a career! I wish I’d seen him playing Dracula in his own adaptation. I like this: ‘Like Bill Nighy, he was not really an Elizabethan hose and ruff sort of performer.’
Very interesting conversation between @brankomilan.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com about the rise of national market liberalism.
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Very interesting conversation between @brankomilan.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com about the rise of national market liberalism.
Alternative headline: Europe produces nothing that China wants. on.ft.com/3XR9JvS China is making trade impossible
China is making trade impossible
Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Alternative headline: Europe produces nothing that China wants. on.ft.com/3XR9JvS China is making trade impossible
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Of course the climax of BB is prophetic: the Left fail to stop neoliberalism, but at least they create a new radical cabaret format that will dominate Channel 4.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Of course the climax of BB is prophetic: the Left fail to stop neoliberalism, but at least they create a new radical cabaret format that will dominate Channel 4.
Credit to the Torygraph for this detailed obituary of the great Jack Shepherd, radical actor, playwright, and director. I’ll remember him especially as Bill Brand and Antonio Gramsci, as well as for In Lambeth, his play about Tom Paine & William Blake, with Bob Peck as Paine.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Credit to the Torygraph for this detailed obituary of the great Jack Shepherd, radical actor, playwright, and director. I’ll remember him especially as Bill Brand and Antonio Gramsci, as well as for In Lambeth, his play about Tom Paine & William Blake, with Bob Peck as Paine.
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“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
- Zarah Sultana
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
- Zarah Sultana
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
- Zarah Sultana
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
- Zarah Sultana
“He’s fighting not for villages in Ukraine. He’s fighting not for territory in Ukraine, not even for rare earths in Ukraine. He is fighting for a much bigger outcome. He wants the United States, first of all, and Europe to admit that Russia has its exclusive sphere of influence where the ... 1/
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“He’s fighting not for villages in Ukraine. He’s fighting not for territory in Ukraine, not even for rare earths in Ukraine. He is fighting for a much bigger outcome. He wants the United States, first of all, and Europe to admit that Russia has its exclusive sphere of influence where the ... 1/
The authors of this article hate Irish neutrality so much that it takes them quite a time to utter the name - Catherine Connolly - of Ireland’s new antiwar president. Their fuming, alongside assorted defence wonks, at Ireland’s failure to toe the NATO line is quite funny.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The authors of this article hate Irish neutrality so much that it takes them quite a time to utter the name - Catherine Connolly - of Ireland’s new antiwar president. Their fuming, alongside assorted defence wonks, at Ireland’s failure to toe the NATO line is quite funny.
RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: “Violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
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November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: “Violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
An English translation of Charlie Lywood’s obituary of the Danish revolutionary Jørn Andersen. socialistworker.co.uk/obituaries/j...
Jørn Lykke Andersen, 1956–2025
Jørn Andersen, or “Jørn the eagle”, as he was affectionately called, has died at the age of 69.
socialistworker.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
An English translation of Charlie Lywood’s obituary of the Danish revolutionary Jørn Andersen. socialistworker.co.uk/obituaries/j...
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Let's also not forget that when Marjorie Taylor Greene entered Congress in 2021, she was worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later, worth around $25,000,000.
Donald Trump isn't the only person using a political office to make money. #Corruption
Donald Trump isn't the only person using a political office to make money. #Corruption
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Let's also not forget that when Marjorie Taylor Greene entered Congress in 2021, she was worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later, worth around $25,000,000.
Donald Trump isn't the only person using a political office to make money. #Corruption
Donald Trump isn't the only person using a political office to make money. #Corruption
My latest column, on Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
Alex Callinicos: Ukraine’s Zelensky on the back foot after corruption scandal
As usual, since it involves Donald Trump, confusion reigns over the new “peace plan” for Ukraine.
socialistworker.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My latest column, on Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO
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Ære være hans minde.
Rest in power, comrade ❤️🚩
Rest in power, comrade ❤️🚩
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ære være hans minde.
Rest in power, comrade ❤️🚩
Rest in power, comrade ❤️🚩
A very nice obituary of Jørn Andersen of the International Socialists Denmark by his friend and comrade Charlie Lywood. From the Easter strikes of 1985 to the movement against the Iraq War & the 2009 protests against COP15 in Copenhagen, Jørn was there. Hamba kahle!
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A very nice obituary of Jørn Andersen of the International Socialists Denmark by his friend and comrade Charlie Lywood. From the Easter strikes of 1985 to the movement against the Iraq War & the 2009 protests against COP15 in Copenhagen, Jørn was there. Hamba kahle!
An excellent counterblast to all the liberal blubbing over Dick Cheney. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Grey Anderson, Iron-Ass — Sidecar
Dick Cheney (1941-2025).
newleftreview.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
An excellent counterblast to all the liberal blubbing over Dick Cheney. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Confusion prevails but I suspect this is the bottom line: ‘“No, not my final,” he [Trump] said. Asked what would happen if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to sign the agreement he said, “he can continue to fight his little heart out”.’
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Confusion prevails but I suspect this is the bottom line: ‘“No, not my final,” he [Trump] said. Asked what would happen if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to sign the agreement he said, “he can continue to fight his little heart out”.’
Interesting on Mamdani’s relationship to the DSA. on.ft.com/4reEdpa How will Democrats handle the Mamdani effect?
How will Democrats handle the Mamdani effect?
Centrist incumbents are facing challenges from leftwing insurgents
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November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Interesting on Mamdani’s relationship to the DSA. on.ft.com/4reEdpa How will Democrats handle the Mamdani effect?
So the Rothermere Empire of ‘Hurrah to the Blackshirts!’ infamy has annexed the Torygraph. on.ft.com/3LXEA7h Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
So the Rothermere Empire of ‘Hurrah to the Blackshirts!’ infamy has annexed the Torygraph. on.ft.com/3LXEA7h Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
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Trump’s predatory imperialism: ‘“Every interaction with the United States entails some element of economic coercion in the form of extraction of non-reciprocal economic benefit,” said one former White House economic official who served under George W Bush.’
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Trump’s predatory imperialism: ‘“Every interaction with the United States entails some element of economic coercion in the form of extraction of non-reciprocal economic benefit,” said one former White House economic official who served under George W Bush.’
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties
The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...