A Second Wind for Weather Underground? The Prairie Fire Statement
The Weather Underground's major achievement of the 1974 was not any armed action, it was the release of Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.
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The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences
Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography.
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Women in the New Left
Reflections by Sheila Benson, Dorothy Wedderburn, and Lynne Segal on the experiences of women within Britain's New Left.
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The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt
In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
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Mourning and Mannahatta
In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.
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Was there a General Crisis of Feudalism?
Was the feudal order subject to accidental disintegration; did it collapse under several unrelated crises; or was there a general crisis of this society because of its inherent weaknesses?
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“I Wanted to See for Myself the First Land of Socialism”: Black American Women and the Russian Revolution
The promse of 1917 allowed African American women to assert themselves as an integral part of a global movement to end racism, sexism, and imperialism.
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Western Fanaticism and The Idea of China
"China" continues to be a kind of allegorical screen for thinking political fanaticism.
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Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy
Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.
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"Explanations" of Male Dominance
To explain the origins of female subordination we need a theory that accounts for the control of women's work by men.
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Video: Jason W. Moore — “To Make Ourselves the Masters and Possessors of Nature”: Dutch Capitalism and the World-Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century
Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century's "distinct, but mutually formative" crises of capitalism and ecology.
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Red Scientist: Two Strands from a Life in Three Colours
An exploration of Bernal's contribution to the politicization of science and scientists, above all the development of the Social Relations of Science movement.
