Walter Rodney, the great Marxist historian and activist, was killed on June 13th 1980 by a bomb in his native Guyana. In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
Stone Men explores how Palestinian labour built the land of Israel, and how to use this history in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
Tariq Ali on the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier today.
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George Souvlis interviews Enzo Traverso on the emergence of far-right movements across the European continent, drawing on Traverso's extensive body of work since the 1990s.
On the latest Suite (212) on Resonance FM, Juliet Jacques talks to Brian Eno, about new music, new technology, neoliberalism, and the responsibilities of artists in 2019.
March saw attacks on Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar for expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine and for criticising the outsized U.S. political preoccupation with the Israeli state. In this article, Sophia Azeb reads the targeting of Omar through the work of the late poet and activist June Jordan, and argues that only by bearing witness can we hold the state to account.
Paratroopers in Kabul recently provoked controversy by filming themselves using an image of Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. In this piece, Tariq Ali placed the incident in the context of the establishment's fears of having Corbyn as Prime Minister.
Corey Robin on the history of conservative thought, the significance of Donald Trump's presidency, and Ayn Rand's contribution to conservatism, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast
German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator Hito Steyerl mediates on the function of art in the era of digital globalization. In this excerpt Steyerl explains the future of the design of killing, taken from her chapter: ‘How to Kill People: A Problem of Design’.
Silvia Federici has been one of the most influential and widely cited Marxist feminist scholars of the last 50 years. Her landmark work, Caliban and the Witch, argued that witch hunts were an organized campaign of mass murder of women who defied the increasing implementation of a patriarchal, authoritarian order under a rapidly developing capitalist state. In this article, Emily Janakiram argues that her work, and particularly her essay “On the Meaning of Gossip" can help shed light on a much maligned yet invaluable part of solidarity among workers and women.
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.