It can either follow the working class along the nationalist-chauvinist road or insist on its internationalist principles at the cost of severing any remaining connection with its indispensable social ...

At least until the invasion of Iraq – and to an extent, even afterwards – New Labour could count on the support of the British culture industry. Of course there were exceptions: the odd band, like ...

The recent wave of protests in Iran have generated an extraordinary volume of commentary, much of it framed through familiar but misleading scripts. Some cast the unrest as an imminent revolutionary ...

In Mary Gaitskill’s 1997 short story ‘Orchid’, two characters approaching middle age encounter each other on the street in Seattle. Margot is a social worker, Patrick a former actor turned ...

The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest companies are connected to the ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...

Zarah Sultana is among Britain’s most prominent socialist leaders. Born in Birmingham in 1993, she became politically active in the student movement and later in the upsurge of Corbynism: serving on ...

One has become familiar with the demented logic and the deadened language of prominent American nuclear strategists. This bookfootnote ＊ initiates us into a new branch of military mythology: ...

The number of people who have signed up for Britain’s new left-wing party has surpassed 650,000: a figure that dwarfs the membership of every other outfit in Westminster. Preparations are underway for ...