In his article on the background of the present dictatorship in the Philippines (New Left Review 78, March–April 1973) Jonathan Fast helps to illuminate some key features of the colonial and ...

For all but six months the world has awaited news of the fall of President Sukarno, his position gravely threatened by the ascendancy of the army and the attempted physical obliteration of the ...

1. Regarding Conquest’s pre-perestroika estimates of excess deaths in the 1930s, in The Great Terror Conquest estimated that 3,500,000 people died during ...

Elias Khoury (1948-2024).

The political and cultural establishments who tolerate the killing fields in Palestine will now regard the assassination of ...

Iran and escalation.

The long route from the informal shop-floor democracy of the first Briggs strike to the boardroom wheeling-dealing of the 1950 settlement, and the corresponding dilution and displacement of rank and ...

Three factors define the functioning, stability and representative capacity of a state. The first is the overall framework of social forces: the correlation between the different coalitions, both ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...

Class-divided societies have almost always been governed politically by a small minority. In general, this chosen few is a small group even in relation to the ‘ruling class’ itself, in the Marxist ...

The title of Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, refers to a move in chess, more commonly known as a Zwischenzug, in which a player delays a favourable move, such as the capture of a piece, in ...

DALL-E prompt: generate a photographic image of a kid in a council estate in the north of England in the 1980s, in the style of Tish Murtha, 35mm lens, Kodak Tri-X ...