Green Socialist 116 Summer 2026 – Alliance for Green Socialism

Exit Orbàn

Toby Abse raises two cheers for the fall of Hungary’s autocrat VICTOR Orbàn’s defeat in the Hungarian general election in mid-April was an event of international, not just purely Hungarian, significance. Orbàn had started his political career as an anti-Communist Liberal, favouring conventional neo-liberal economic policies, and his first stint as prime minister in 1998-2000Continue reading “Exit Orbàn”

Joyce’s politics

IN his fascinating but overlong and sometimes unfocussed ‘political life’ of James Joyce – the biographer himself died in 2021 so was perhaps unable to make the necessary cuts to a 909-page text – Frank Callanan gives us a portrait of the artist as a young socialist who became disillusioned with socialism once he leftContinue reading “Joyce’s politics”