Richard Seymour on the reasons for Labour's electoral defeat, why the left overestimated Labour's chances, and what we can expect from the 'disaster nationalism' of Boris Johnson's government, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
2019 has been a year of planetary unrest, with mass struggles springing up in places as diverse as Haiti, France, Ecuador, and Iran. Yet, it is the struggles in Chile, sparked by a 4 per cent rise in the price of a metro ride, that have been most emblematic of this new cycle of mass mobilisation. In this article, Joshua Clover reads the striking image of a train on fire in the Elisa Correa station of the Santiago metro, and asks what it can tell us about our new era of riot and protest.
A discussion on autofiction and the construction of self, on who has the right to tell their family narrative and the trauma of not being heard.
With Jeremy Corbyn stepping down as leader of the Labour Party, and deputy leader Tom Watson resigning, the biggest question facing the party is how will take its top two jobs and lead its renewal after the recent election defeat? Here, Philip Proudfoot and Ashok Kumar argue that only by having Ian Lavery as deputy leader can Labour win back the North.
Following Labour's defeat in last week's general election, and the collapse of the vote in the North and Midlands, there has been a revival of Blue Labour and debate about the white working class and the need for Labour to regain their votes. Eleanor Penny argues that the only viable option for Labour is a vision real economic offer of revival, combined with a true story of where power lies, not a pandering to bigotry and xenophobia.
A conversation between Andrea Long Chu and Jordy Rosenberg on gender and fetish, theories of desire, and gender differentiated from other social constructions.
The results of the recent British general election signalled a momentous shift for one area in particular: Northern Ireland. In this article, Luke Butterly analyses the results and asks what this signals for the future of the region.
While intellectual and economic elites support the European Union in its present form, the less well-to-do reject it, Thomas Piketty reminds us in his column in Le Monde. But there is no fatality to this. The evil is deep and long-standing. In all referendums held over the past twenty-five years, the working classes have systematically expressed their disagreement with the European construction proposed to them, while the richer and privileged classes have supported it.
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Thursday's general election defeat for the Labour Party showed the limitations of Corbynism, and has lead to renewed debate on left strategy in Britain. In this article, Connor Woodman argues that only a focus on deep grassroots organising, alongside parliamentary struggle, can we hope to win future victories.
Peter Wollen, the pioneering film theorist and film maker, died on Tuesday 17th December at the age of 81. His books and essays transformed the way that cinema is written about in the English speaking world, particularly his 1969 work Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, which is often regarded as one of the most influential books on cinema ever written.
In celebration of his work, we're republishing his 2001 essay "An Alphabet of Cinema", originally published in New Left Review and included in the essay collection Paris Hollywood.