Archive: Socialist Review (International Socialist Organisation, 1997-2022)

Available material
The following issues published 1997-2014 – #1, #3-13, #15, #18, #21-24, #26-38, #40, #42, #44-46, #48-49.
Missing material
The following issues published up to the fiftieth – #2, #14, #16-17, #19-20, #25, #39, #41, #43, #47, #50 – as well as all subsequent issues up to its 2022 discontinuation.

Long a mainstay of anything the International Socialist Organisation (NZ) was involved in, Socialist Review was published by the ISO for fully a quarter century from 1997-2022. After a short period of indeterminate publishing following the shuttering of Socialist Review, the organisation began a new paper called The Socialist. While not the first ISO periodical (the organisation put out at least a couple issues of a short newsletter named Red Alert in the 1990s) it is by far the most substantial in the organisation’s history, and was one of the main socialist publications in New Zealand in the 2000s and 2010s.

Founded in 1993, the ISO merged with the Socialist Workers Party (the reorganised Communist Party of New Zealand) in 1994, a merger which lasted less than 3 years before an acrimonious split in 1997. This split saw a much smaller ISO reemerge than had gone into the merger, but nevertheless the newly independent ISO set about launching its own paper within months of reforming. From its launch to its shuttering the paper saw multiple periods of expansion and contraction for the ISO, including growing out of its sole branch in Dunedin to branches in Wellington and Auckland. Likewise, coverage within its pages of world and local affairs ranges from an assessment of the newly elected Tony Blair in the UK in its first issue through to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in its last couple years of publication.

The pages of Socialist Review are a good source for those interested in campus politics after the student occupation waves of the 1990s, socialist orientations to the ballot box from the 2002-2020 elections, labour politics leading up to and in the long aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, the era of the Global War on Terror, and a number of other issues.

Socialist Review

Socialist Review #1 (June/July 1997)

Socialist Review #3 (Autumn 2000)

Socialist Review #4 (Spring 2000)

Socialist Review #5 (Summer 2000)

Socialist Review #6 (Autumn 2001)

Socialist Review #7 (Winter 2001)

Socialist Review #8 (Spring 2001)

Socialist Review #9 (Summer 2001/2002)

Socialist Review #10 (Autumn 2002)

Socialist Review #11 (Winter 2002)

Socialist Review #12 (Spring 2002)