An extract from the Introduction to this year’s Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism,the journal of the Raymond Williams Society. Robert Spencer and Christopher Vardy are editors of the special issue on ‘Crisis’ and argue below for urgent critical, theoretical, and political questions to be posed to greater understand how crises are understood and narrativized.
New Left Review recently republished a relatively unknown 1961 essay from Raymond Williams on the 'Future of Marxism'.In this article, Daniel Gerke responds to the article and offers an illuminating account of what is identified as the consistency of Williams’s internationalism.