Marxist Feminist film scholar Dai Jinhua, one of the preeminent cultural critics of China's New Left, historicizes the rapid cultural and intellectual developments that took place in China during the 1980s and 90s.
In these videos George Monbiot outlines how we can democratise politics and economics, and transfer power back into the hands of the community.
Ian Birchall reviews Opening the Gates, on the historic 1970s struggles at the Lip watch factory in Besançon.
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A recent call for philosophical debate on gender illustrates how purportedly neutral analyses can be mobilized to reproduce run-of-the-mill transphobia.
In his bicentenary year, Marx's writings remain essential to understanding how the world moves.
Daniel Renwick, a community youth worker who witnessed the Grenfell Tower fire and its aftermath, responds to Andrew O'Hagan's recent London Review of Books feature, The Tower.
We call on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and its library to reverse the decision to close the Georg Lukács Archives.
Syrian writer Thaer A. Deeb chronicles the miscalculations that have prevented the Syrian left from playing a decisive role in the uprising that began in 2011.
On the latest episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Raj Patel and Jason Moore trace the relationship between capital and the environment through seven cheap things: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives.
Rather than accusing Jews who criticize Israel of self-hatred, we should be asking ourselves what love can and should be able to tolerate.
Articles from a July 1968 edition of Intercontinental Press — on the French May, the Prague Spring, and repression in Greece — register the immediate response of the Fourth International to some of the political upheavals that defined that year.