Brexiteers succeeded because they found a ready-made myth; a dream-vision that fitted onto the psyche of enough voters. In this edited excerpt from Dreams of Leaving and Remaining, James Meek presents a masterly portrait of an anxious, troubled nation.
Emmanuel Macron recently described anti-Zionism as a new form of antisemitism, setting in motion a process to criminalize anti-Zionism. In this article, Shlomo Sand discusses changing natures of Judeophobia, Zionism, and of Jewish indentity
Today marks 100 years since the March 1st Movement began in Korea, a movement that helped to coalesce the burgeoning Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule. In this article, Boduerae Kwon places the movement in the context of national liberation struggles of the years after the First World War.
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In this time of expanding possibilities and immanent dystopias, how do we think through a revolutionary conception of time? In this article, a review of Jérôme Baschet’s book, Défaire la tyrannie du présent. Temporalités émergentes et futurs inédits (La Découverte, 2018), Christophe Bonneuil tackles the temporal dimensions of overcoming capitalism by way of a detour through the Zapatista experience, offering a deep insight into our relationship to history.
With Bernie entering the Democratic primary race, here's a look back on his long political career fighting for the working class.
The case of Shamima Begum, the nineteen year-old who ran away to Syria from her home in East London in 2015, is now well known. Yet, the most striking thing about it is not the enactment of the deprivation of her citizenship but the scale of media attention it has received. In this essay, Nisha Kapoor puts the actions of the British state against Begum in its political and historical context.
From Habermas to Honneth, critics have been keen to portray Foucault as a paradox-prone thinker. Thomas Lemke argues that we should embrace the recurring contradictions in Foucault's thought as symptoms rather than inherent problems.
"There is one demand on which all the Yellow Vests unanimously agree: Macron Resign!" Alèssi Dell’Umbria reports on the Gilets Jaunes in the context of France's infamous social movements.
In this edited extract from The Reform of Europe, Michel Aglietta considers Europe's future in the new age of global politics, and the long-term developments that Europe should help foster as an extension of its own political self-assertion in a multipolar world.
Alain Brossat on the rise of the new far-right.