"Using the term ‘cultural Marxism’, and the failure to dutifully apprehend its meaning, may allude to a wider Brexit culture war within which anti-Semitic tropes can be subsumed." Patrick Garratt looks into the origins of the anti-semitic trope, and the relevance of Marcuse’s social theory in the new era of ‘culture wars’.
In May of 1934, Osip Mandelstam was arrested and interrogated by the OGPU for composing and reciting "The Stalin Epigram." This excerpt from Ralph Dulti’s new biography of Osip Mandelstam details Mandelstam’s life and work after his first brush with the Soviet authorities.
Churchill’s fiscal lunacy created the conditions that led to the 1926 general strike.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial join Eleanor Penny to discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography.
In this video Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
