The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

Elections in Poland.Having been lauded by liberal commentators as the saviour of Europe, Poland has now returned to its previous role as the continent’s reprobate. Presidential elections on 18 May ...

Regime change in Tehran?The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating ...

Manmohan Singh’s India.In June 1991, when Manmohan Singh heard that he was about to be appointed finance minister of India, he thought it must be a joke. It was inconceivable that a sixty-year-old ...

Israel attacks Iran.The Israeli assault on Iran – launched as the genocide against the Palestinian people grinds on – follows a grimly familiar script. As with its previous campaigns in Lebanon and ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

The aesthetic debates within German Marxism are now acknowledged to constitute one of the most remarkable sequences in European cultural history this century. Few episodes either in the general ...

These are strange times. Capitalism, crippled by its own contradictions—there are thirty million people out of work in the oecd countries alone—is nonetheless triumphant. From New York to Beijing, via ...