The emergence of China as the world’s economic powerhouse has shifted the centre of the global market eastwards. The prc’s growth rates are the envy of elites everywhere, its commodities circulating ...

For more than a century and a quarter Marxism has occupied an important position in American social criticism, but never a dominant one. For most socialists between the 1870s and World War One, Marx ...

There is no little irony in the fact that the national republics established in Latin America in the 19th century ended up, despite themselves, behaving precisely in line with a model they claimed to ...

Elias Khoury (1948-2024).

The fortieth anniversary of May 68 in France was the occasion for much public-minded commemoration, from the open-air exhibition on the Place de la Sorbonne of Marc Riboud’s enormous photographs of ...

As of January, in Marghera there were 1,052 direct employees with between 4,200 and 4,500 contract workers, depending on the ...

The Russian Formalist school of literary criticism and linguistic studies emerged shortly before the Russian revolution. The Moscow Linguistic Circle was formed in 1915; the St. Petersburg Society for ...

Marx’s vision of communism is of a society that has transcended morality. Such a society is not only impracticable but inconceivable, since social and moral conflict requiring the arbitration of ...

Eric Hobsbawm outlived the ‘short twentieth century’ of 1917–1991 by more than twenty years. Right to the end, he was still an object of scandal for having been a Communist for much too long. ‘You see ...

Alain de Benoist, born in 1943, came from a conservative, petty-bourgeois family in the Loire Valley. His father moved the household to Paris in 1950, and later took a summer house in Dreux, future ...

In the still hollow steel structure, ‘il condominio’, as the central body is called, had been assembled. With overlapping ...