New Left Review 160, out now
The revolving door at Downing Street whirls again, evicting Keir Starmer just two years after he entered Number Ten on an electoral landslide. Donald Sassoon assesses the multiple discontents – political, economic, social, ideological – behind the latest Westminster coup. Burnham, the sixth prime minister since Brexit, is unlikely to escape them.
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Also in NLR 160: In memory of Carlo Ginzburg: Perry Anderson introduces a series of wide-ranging exchanges with his friend and former colleague, covering politics, war, religion, philology and history. Benjamin Kunkelexplores the possibility that de-globalization might open new avenues for the 2020s lefts. Mao Jian maps the cultural situation in China, from smartphone micro-dramas to avant-garde literature. Plus book reviews: Mario Del Pero on Anders Stephanson’s American Imperatives; Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans’s history of Soviet dissidents; and Julian Stallabrass on the artist Trevor Paglen’s conceptualization of automated images.