Chris Harman

Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germany—the swastika entered modern history on the uniforms of the counterrevolutionary troops of 1918–1923—and reveals its lessons for struggles for a better world. Chris Harman is the author of many books, including A People's History of the World.

We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting, perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September-October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of "the end of capitalism as...

In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history. To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism—unemployment, poverty, the threat of new wars—to place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working...