“We built canals, we laid the tracks of railways here to hell and back, And now we’re going to have a crack At the London-Yorkshire Highway.” When I made my introduction to socialism it was through ...

Given the permanent social weight of population questions, it is remarkable that their hold on mainstream social and political discourse has been so intermittent and precarious. Within the academy, ...

On Wall Street, what the Financial Times has dubbed ‘the Taco trade’ – based on the theory that Trump Always Chickens Out – ...

In a problematic specifically concerned with explaining twentieth-century socio-political developments, the questions of how and when classes are formed also raise other problems not encompassed ...

1. Existing democratic rights and traditional means of struggle must and can be used to achieve a parliamentary majority pledged to socialism. Such a majority will then enact legislation to destroy ...

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 ...

Iundertook to write this obituary of Louis Althusser for the alumni of the École Normale Supérieure in 1993, nearly three years after the thinker’s death; and not without hesitations and ...

These are difficult days for the labour movement in the United States, and the situation is even worse for the radical labour movement. Trade-union membership in the non-farm labour force has declined ...

Gabriel Pearson’s recent articlefootnote 1 on present-day poetry and the trend poetry has followed since the rise of romanticism contained some striking new formulations of a thesis familiar enough ...

Iread with great interest Alex Callinicos’s critique of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu in NLR 236. It is a provocative essay whose ambition and logic epitomizes what is wrong, and what is right, ...

The many theoretical attempts to prise apart this affinity of memory and still images—by Freud, Proust, Bergson, Kracauer, Bazin and others—are part of a general suspicion of the visual and its vulgar ...

Naomi Klein has a gift for grasping the essence of the current political situation and providing a rallying point for the Left. She did so in No Logo, her 2000 best-seller, and she does again in The ...