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The Historians' Group of the Communist Party

During the decade after the Second World War, prominent historians like Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, Edward and Dorothy Thompson, and Raphael Samuel formed the Communist Party Historians' Group to debate and develop Marxist historical analyses. In this essay, originally published in 1978, Hobsbawm reflects on the group's work and lasting intellectual influence.
“The world has done very little to help the Rohingya”

Interview with Kaamil Ahmed, author of I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers
We're making How To Blow Up A Pipeline free again.

Canada is burning, parts of North America are being blanketed by smoke, and the Mountain Valley Pipeline was just approved in Biden's debt ceiling deal. We encourage you to read How to Blow Up a Pipeline if you haven't already.
Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg discusses the historical method of microhistory, of which he is an eminent representative, and some themes and concepts of his work.
No War But Class War

We must renew our understanding of our class belonging and of how we go to war – because that is the only way we are going to win.
We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?

Bosie became a footnote in the story: an embodiment of ‘evil twink energy’, a poisoned apple whose path through life left a wake of destruction that led to the great hero’s downfall.
Quick Fixes: A Letter from the Editor

"Beneath the bright descriptions, interesting contradictions and energetic prose, lurks an impressive materialist account of drugs and American capitalism."
The Nightmare and Dream of Autonomous Policing

Despite a wave of criticism, both the NYPD and LAPD have moved forward with plans to implement Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicles – more commonly referred to as "Robot Police Dogs" – into their departments' fleets. In this excerpt from After Black Lives Matter, Cedric G. Johnson breaks down the implications of such a move.
A Response to Clover and Singh

Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. share their response to Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh's "Revelation's Edge", regarding No Politics but Class Politics.
Queer as Folk, The New Labour project, and Sexual Modernity

Queer As Folk functions as a prescient parable for New Labour’s political philosophy.
If we ‘do not dream of labor’, what do we dream of?

Admitting that what we hold dear is not outside of the grasp of the system we revile is not admitting defeat; it is accurately assessing the conditions so that we might fight back.
After Work: a Letter from the Editor

"Study after study over the last century has confirmed again and again: technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on domestic labour in the home. How can that be true?"