Paul B Smith

Latest articles by Paul B Smith

Into the swamp

Review of Yuri Slezkine's 'The house of government: a saga of the Russian Revolution'. Princeton University Press, 2017, pp1096, £30

Optimism and pessimism

What is the nature of capitalist crises? Paul B Smith weighs up two contending views

Back in business

Last week Hugh Torney, a former chief of staff of the Irish National Liberation Army, was shot dead in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Torney was replaced after independently declaring a ceasefire from a Dublin courtroom, where he faced arms charges. He was believed to be behind a series of attacks on the new leadership and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The Weekly Worker spoke to IRSP executive member Paul Carson