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Religion: Roland Boer: The full story: Marxism and religion
International Socialism Journal nr. 123, jul 09 – side 161
Note: “Religion is the main cause of wars and conflicts through history.” How often do we hear that old idealist argument used in our day of renewed global conflict? In an earlier issue of this journal John Molyneux wrote a useful response to that position. I would like to offer a critical reply to Molyneux, pointing out where he falls short but also developing one or two points further.; Neil Davidson: Book Review: Terry Eagleton: Reason, Faith and Revolution
Socialist Review nr. 337, jun 09 – side 25
Note: In this very welcome contribution to the current debate on religion, Terry Eagleton has two central objectives. One is to dismantle the pretensions of leading figures among the New Atheists, above all Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, whom he conflates into a single entity called "Ditchkins".
His other objective is likely to be more controversial with readers of Socialist Review. Eagleton, rightly focusing on Christianity rather than Islam, argues that the genuine radicalism of original religion was abandoned (the relevant chapter is actually called "The Revolution Betrayed") following its institutionalisation and subsequent accommodation to power; John Molyneux: More than opium: Marxism and religion
International Socialism Journal nr. 119, jul 08 – side 51
Note: About 20 years ago I spoke on “Marxism and religion” at the Socialist Workers Party Easter Rally in Skegness. I began, roughly, with the words, “Today, in Britain, religion—fortunately—is not a major political issue.” Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. Today religion, or rather one religion in particular, namely Islam, is at the centre of political debate.; Anindya Bhattacharyya: Marx og religion
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 278, apr 08 – side 11
Note: Mange af de angreb, som muslimer oplever i dag, er de samme som jøderne blev udsat for på Marx tid. Liberale tænkere hånede religion, og så religion som det afgørende problem i kampen for frihed. Marx mente, at det at se på religion på en så snæver måde, skjulte for det større billede af samfundet og derved også de grundlæggende problemer vi i dag har.; Jørn Andersen: Socialister og religion
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 273, okt 07 – side 12
Note: Mange kender citatet fra Marx om, at „Religion er opium for folket“. Det stammer fra indledningen til „Kritik af den hegelske retsfilosofi“ og er skrevet i 1844. Udtalelsen markerer, at marxister er de mest grundlæggende og konsekvente kritikere af religion.; Paul Blackledge: Not just opium
International Socialism Journal nr. 113, jan 07 – side 191
Note: A review of Scott Mann, Heart of a Heartless World: Religion as Ideology (Black Rose Books, 1999), £13.99
How should socialists relate to social movements whose aims are informed by religious ideas? A moment’s consideration of this problem is enough to suggest that a simple answer is precluded by the very diversity of such movements.; Anindya Bhattacharyya: Teori for bevægelsen: Marx og religion
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 253, mar 06 – side 8
Note: Mange af de angreb, som muslimer oplever i dag, er de samme som jøderne blev udsat for på Marx tid. Liberale tænkere hånede religion, og så religion som det afgørende problem i kampen for frihed. Marx mente, at det at se på religion på en så snæver måde, skjulte for det større billede af samfundet.; Jørn Andersen: Socialister og religion
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 248, nov 05 – side 8
Note: Mange kender citatet fra Marx om, at "Religion er opium for folket". Udtalelsen markerer, at marxister er de mest grundlæggende og konsekvente kritikere af religion. Men marxisters konkrete, politiske angreb er ikke rettet mod troende eller tilhængere af religiøse bevægelser, men mod de institutioner, der binder religionen til den herskende orden.; Hazel Croft: Religion, rebellion & reaction
Socialist Worker nr. 1779, dec 01 – side 10
Note: It is clear to anyone who looks around the world today that religious ideas still retain huge influence among millions. Why do people still look to religion, and what attitude should socialists take?; Kjetil Kvist: "Stopp kristentvang i skolen" – en kritikk
Internasjonal Sosialisme 2 (norsk) nr. 2, jun 98
Note: Sosialister har lange tradisjoner å forsvare når det kommer til kritikk av religionen og kristendomsundervisningen – og la det være sagt; Andreas forsvarer dem godt. Men jeg føler at det er flere punkter Andreas ikke belyser godt nok.; Alex Callinicos: In a heartless world
Socialist Review nr. 119, apr 89 – side 14
Note: Following the Rushdie affair, Alex Callinicos looks at the Marxist view of religion
Jødedom: John Rose: Karl Marx, Abram Leon and the Jewish Question—a reappraisal
International Socialism Journal nr. 119, jul 08 – side 121
Note: At some point, quite early on in our revolutionary “careers”, Jewish students of the 1968 generation had to confront On the Jewish Question written by the young Karl Marx in 1843.; Ann Rogers: Marxismen og det jødiske spørgsmål
Socialistisk Revy nr. 4, maj 98 – side 23
Note: I år fejrer den israelske stat 50-års fødselsdag. Zionismen og Israels undertrykkelse af palæstinenserne forsvares tit ved at henvise til jødeforfølgelsen. Ann Rogers skriver om Abram Leons bog The Jewish Question, der forkaster zionismen og undersøger myter og realiteter bag antisemitismen.; Hal Draper: Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) (Karl Marx: "On the Jewish Question" (1843))
Note: From Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Vol.1: State and Bureaucracy, Monthly Review, New York 1977, pp.591-608.
Kristendom: Editorial: Pope Benedict and a history of bigotry
Socialist Worker nr. 2136, jan 09 – side 12
Note: The Roman Catholic church has never been averse to taking reactionary positions on a whole range of political issues.
But even critics of the church will have been taken aback by Pope Benedict’s latest move – revoking the excommunication of four bishops associated with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).; John Rose: Jesus: history's most famous missing person
International Socialism Journal nr. 85, dec 99 – side 73
Note: The Millennium seems a good moment to examine the event that defines the Christian calendar, the birth of Jesus. John Rose examines the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus in the context of social conflict in the Roman Empire.
Islam: Poul Erik Kristensen: „Tørklædet er mit valg, min ret, min frihed“
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 279, jun 08 – side 2
Note: Det er en ubehagelig tendens, at mange i dagens Danmark vil diktere en ensartet dress code og hilseform. Det begyndte da Søren Espersen fra Dansk Folkeparti hånede SF’eren Kamal Qureshi for at møde op i ‚morgenkåbe‘ til dronningens bal, skønt han faktisk kom i sin families enkle og stilfulde festdragt. Tilsvarende vil en række tidligere rødstrømper bestemme, hvordan kvinder skal gå klædt.; Alexander Lassithiotakis: Hizb ut-Tahrir – dem som ingen vil lege med
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 278, apr 08 – side 4
Note: Hetzen mod Hizb ut-Tahrir har efterhånden udviklet sig til en evig føljeton, hvor de forskellige politiske partier skiftes til at have stafetten.; Maina van der Zwan: Geert Wilders' Fitna: Islamophobia on film
Socialist Worker nr. 2096, apr 08 – side 11
Note: Behind a film from Dutch politician Geert Wilders lies a system that has let racism into the mainstream, writes Maina van der Zwan; Hassan Mahamdallie: Islamophobia: a new strain of bigotry
Socialist Review nr. 324, apr 08 – side 22
Note: Attacks on Muslims by politicians and the media have been on the rise since the 9/11 attacks. Now, when author Martin Amis's abusive tirades against Islam are broadcast and published without qualm, Hassan Mahamdallie asks if Islamophobia has become society's acceptable racism.; Jakob L. Krogh: Boganmeldelse: Der er et yndigt land – om kvindekamp og antiracisme
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 277, mar 08 – side 13
Note: Rikke Andreassens bog er en gave til socialister, feminister og antiracister. Hun har analyseret mediernes dækning af synlige minoriteter, dvs. ikke-hvide indvandrere fra 1971 til 2007.; Alexander Lassithiotakis: Boganmeldelse: Profeten og proletariatet
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 273, okt 07 – side 13
Note: Derfor er det ikke så mærkeligt, at man som socialist i dag kan blive forvirret over, hvordan man skal forholde sig til religion; og i særdeleshed islam. Men for at kritisere må man forstå.; Jørn Andersen + Klaus B. Jensen: Tørklæde-debat: Stop hetzen mod muslimer
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 269, maj 07 – side 3
Note: På højrefløjen er hun potentiel terrorist, i medierne er hun islamisk fundamentalist, og på venstrefløjen er hun en undertrykt kvinde og hendes tørklæde et symbol på en kvindeundertrykkende kultur.; Hassan Mahamdallie: Britain: Muslim working class struggles
International Socialism Journal nr. 113, jan 07 – side 93
Note: One product of the demonisation of Britain’s Muslims by those forces desperate to provide a scapegoat for the fallout from the ‘war on terror’ has been a concerted effort to separate them out from the rest of society, to make them seem ‘alien’ and culturally distant—especially in the eyes of the wider working class. These attacks obscure the reality that the majority of Muslims (though not all, of course) belong to the working class.; Mikkel Birk Jespersen: Racisme, islam og venstrefløjen
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 262, nov 06 – side 2
Note: „Hvis I ikke stiller op for mig, når jeg og andre muslimer bliver udsat for angreb, hvorfor skulle jeg så, i en anden situation, stille op for jer?“. Sådan spurgte Abdul Wahid Pedersen retorisk til et møde på Marxisme 2006.; Chris Harman: Between ritual and revolt
International Socialism Journal nr. 112, sep 06 – side 218
Note: A review of Ali Rahnema (ed): "Pioneers of the Islamic Revival" (Zed books, 2006), £18.95; Salma Yaqoob: Salma Yaqoob på "Marxism 2005": Muslimer og socialister – stå sammen
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 252, feb 06 – side 9
Note: Salma Yaqoob er ledende muslimsk anti-krigsaktivist i Storbritannien. Hun stillede op som parlamentskandidat for Respect i Birmingham og blev nummer to med 27% af stemmerne. Her taler hun til Socialist Workers Partys seminar "Marxism 2005" få dage efter bomberne i London den 7. juli 2005.; Jørn Andersen: Muslimer: Vor tids jøder
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 247, okt 05 – side 3
Note: "Hvorfor er I så optaget af at forsvare muslimer?" Sådan spørger folk ofte, når Socialistisk Arbejderavis igen har haft en artikel om islamhetz, eller når vi argumenterer for, at muslimer skal sikres en plads i bevægelsen mod krig og imperialisme.; Hassan Mahamdallie: More than the mosque (Humayun Ansari: "The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800")
International Socialism Journal nr. 107, jun 05 – side 184
Note: A review of Humayun Ansari, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (Hurst & Company, 2004), £16.50; Chris Harman: Book reviews: Contested values (Olivier Roy: "Globalised Islam: The Search for the New Ummah" + Mariam Abou Zahab & Olivier Roy: "Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection" + Muzaffar Alam: "The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800")
International Socialism Journal nr. 105, dec 04 – side 184
Note: Nine years ago Olivier Roy wrote a book entitled The Failure of Political Islam. It was a book which demanded to be taken seriously, since he is one of the few Westerners to provide a serious account for a general readership of what has variously been called ‘political Islam’, ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamic fundamentalism’.; Anne Alexander: Islam through the looking-glass (Gilbert Achcar: "Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror")
International Socialism Journal nr. 104, sep 04 – side 127
Note: A review of Gilbert Achcar, Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (Monthly Review, 2004), £12.99; Antoine Boulangé: The hijab, racism and the state
International Socialism Journal nr. 102, mar 04 – side 3
Note: When right wing French prime minister Raffarin introduced a law banning the wearing of Muslim headscarves in schools, he fanned the flames of a debate with implications that stretch far beyond the borders of France. Most of the French left supported the ban on the basis of protecting 'secularity' and the values of the republic. Antoine Boulangé argues that they mistakenly put an abstract idea of equality above the civil rights of Muslims in an Islamophobic post-9/11 world.; Charlie Lywood: Islam – det nye fjendebillede: Venstrefløjen på den forkerte side
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 219, okt 03 – side 8
Note: Anders Fogh har udnævnt muslimer og islam til det nye fjendebillede. De skal bekriges med alle midler. De skal fratages deres kulturelle rettigheder til bøn, skoler og hovedbeklædning. De skal tvangsfordanskes eller fordrives. Og den holdning findes desværre også hos nogle på venstrefløjen.; Salma Yaqoob: Global and local echoes of the anti-war movement: a British Muslim perspective
International Socialism Journal nr. 100, sep 03 – side 39
Note: Islamophobia has underpinned much of the ideology of the 'war on terror'. The left has not always been immune to such ideas. Salma Yaqoob draws on her experience as the chairperson of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition, and as a British Muslim, to suggest how progressive alliances can overcome preconception and prejudice.; Sam Ashman: Islam and imperialism (Tariq Ali: "The Clash of Fundamentalisms")
International Socialism Journal nr. 95, jun 02 – side 125; Phil Marfleet: Islam: Force for change?
Socialist Review nr. 257, nov 01 – side 16
Note: Phil Marfleet looks at the appeal and limits of Islamic activism; Anders Schou: Islamisk fundamentalisme: Et forkert svar på undertrykkelse
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 197, okt 01 – side 5
Note: På den ene side er fundamentalismen en reaktionær ideologi, som undertrykker kvinder og homoseksuelle og er fjendtlig overfor socialister og arbejderbevægelsen. På den anden side er islamisk fundamentalisme mange undertryktes – ganske vist forkerte svar – på en verden, som nægter dem alt, der bare kan minde om social tryghed.; Phil Marshall: The children of Stalinism
International Socialism Journal nr. 68, sep 95 – side 117
Note: A comment on Chris Harman's article on Islam, 'The Prophet and the Proletariat', (ISJ2:64); Martin B. Johansen: Marxisme i hverdagen: Bag sløret
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 110, dec 94 – side 9
Note: Islams voksende indflydelse i Mellemøsten og blandt indvandrere i Vesteuropa er af mange blevet tolket som en trussel mod det moderne vesten og alle dens rettigheder som fx ytringsfrihed og kvindefrigørelse.; Chris Harman: The prophet and the proletariat
International Socialism Journal nr. 64, sep 94 – side 3
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Islamic fundamentalism is rapidly emerging as the ideology that Western politicians and media pundits most like to hate. The kind of abuse once reserved for `Communism' is now directed at the Islamic movements which threaten to destabilise key areas of Western influence in the Middle East and beyond. But the campaign against Islamism has found allies on the left among those fearful that it threatens an irrationalist, even fascist, backlash.
Chris Harman charts a careful course through the contradictions of Islamism, revealing its class roots and arguing that when the Islamists are in opposition the socialist attitude should be `with the state never, with Islamism sometimes'. He goes on to show in which circumstances Islamism plays a reactionary role and in which circumstances the Islamists challenge the establishment.; Phil Marshall + Phil Marshall: Bookwatch: Islamic activism in the Middle East
International Socialism Journal nr. 60, sep 93 – side 157
Note: Phil Marshall reviews the literature on the Islamic revival in the Middle East.; Phil Marshall: Islamic fundamentalism – oppression and revolution
International Socialism Journal nr. 40, sep 88 – side 1; Phil Marshall + Phil Marshall: Islamisk fundamentalisme – undertrykkelse og revolution
International Socialism Journal nr. 40, sep 88
Note: Udgivet som pjece af Internationale Socialisters Forlag; Phil Marshall: Islamischer Fundamentalismus – Unterdrückung und Revolution
International Socialism Journal nr. 40, sep 88; Phil Marfleet: Islam and Revolution
International Socialism Journal nr. 4, mar 79 – side 37